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IT History Society

The pioneers who built the IT industry are retiring, and their firsthand accounts are fading from memory. Meanwhile, AI-generated content is flooding the internet, making authentic history harder to find and easier to fake. We're preserving living memory while we still can.

By aweissberger , 19 May 2020

Tribute to Larry Roberts - Under Appreciated Internet and Packet Switching Pioneer

Introduction:

Membership Committee

The Membership Committee is responsible for growing and sustaining the ITHS community, and for ensuring that membership is meaningful, welcoming, and well understood. Beyond simply increasing numbers, the committee helps prospective members understand what it means to belong, helps new members to find their place, and fosters a culture that reflects the Society’s values.

Events Committee

The Events Committee is responsible for designing and producing live conversations that directly inform and steer the Society’s curatorial and research priorities. These events are not intended to be generic lectures or retrospectives. They are structured discussions with people whose lived experience, technical authority, and historical perspective can help ITHS answer hard questions: what should we preserve, how should we describe it, where did key ideas originate, and which contributors have been overlooked.

Development Committee (Major Gifts)

The Development Committee is responsible for securing the financial support necessary to sustain and grow the Information Technology History Society. Using the term “development” in its nonprofit sense, this committee focuses on building relationships with individuals and institutions capable of making significant contributions, and on communicating ITHS’s mission and plans in a clear, compelling way.

Infrastructure Committee

The Infrastructure Committee is responsible for the technical foundations that enable ITHS to operate reliably, securely, and sustainably. This committee manages the Society’s internal technology and digital assets, ensuring that systems are maintained, access is controlled, and risks are minimized. This empowers other committees to focus on mission, content, and community.

Editorial Committee

The Editorial Committee is responsible for shaping how the Information Technology History Society communicates with the world. This includes: what we publish, where we publish it, and how our voice reflects our mission and values. The draft framework outlined below is intended as a starting point, not a mandate.

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Definition of Information Technology

"Information Technology" (IT), as used by the IT History Society, encompasses the full spectrum of devices, systems, methods, and disciplines developed to acquire, store, process, transmit, and interact with information in all its forms.

 

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By ceruzzi , 10 March 2008

An Alternative Universe

Within the past decade, the cell phone has spread around the world. The iPod is a permanent appendage to teen-agers, while the Blackberry plays the same role for "grown-ups." All these, of course, are based on the microprocessor, whose architecture in turn is based on computer designs that go back at least to the 1960s. The almost universal adoption of this architecture makes it dificult, if not impossible, to imagine that computer architecture could have evolved any other way. (Maybe that's why we have science fiction writers.)

By mols , 8 June 2009

Those Anniversaries We Love ... And Those We Avoid...

virus-bday

A quick glance at the calendar reminded me the other day that my family birthdays' season is starting up in as every year... This got me to think about the computing birthdays passed during the last decade or so... A quick stroll on-line and so we have had so far, at least, those of:

- the transistor, born 1948, just passed its 60th,

By aweissberger , 28 October 2012

Doomsday Scenarios-Big Science Discussion @ Computer History Museum (CHM) in Mt View, CA on October 27, 2012

Several very provocative doomsday scenarios were discussed, but then refuted by subject matter experts called up to the stage to engage in conversation with the program hosts.  For each scenario top scientists were called on stage to discuss and refute several spectacular predictions about the end of the world as well as scientific theories about how it might end. This was a live taping of a "to be edited" future radio show.

By aweissberger , 21 November 2012

CHM Event Commemorating the 25th anniversary of Sun Micro's SPARC Microprocessor

On November 1, 2012, a panel of Sun Micro luminaries discussed how the company "bet the ranch" on the SPARC microprocessor at an early and critical stage of the company's development.   The panel was expertly moderated by my Northeastern University MSEE classmate Dave House. CHM CEO/Prez John Hollar did a great job introducing and closing the program.  

By aweissberger , 21 November 2012

The WITCH is Back: 61 year old computer lives again!

After a three-year restoration project at The National Museum of Computing, the Harwell Dekatron (aka WITCH) computer was rebooted on 20 November 2012 to become the world's oldest original working digital computer. Now in its seventh decade and in its fifth home, the computer with its flashing lights and clattering printers and readers provides an awe-inspiring display for visiting school groups and the general public keen to learn about our rich computer heritage.

By ceruzzi , 22 April 2011

Where exactly is the "cloud"?

You have probably heard the news about the failure of Amazon's Cloud computing services, in spite of their claim that it was geographically dispersed, redundant, etc. This is a relatively new phenomenon, but Martin Campbell-Kelly discussed its early genesis in his chapter in our book The Internet & American Business (Aspray & Ceruzzi, 2008) (shameless plug).

By jwest , 12 August 2011

After 30 years, is the IBM PC reign ending?

Thirty years ago, the International Business Machines company introduced its first general-purpose personal computer, the 5150. (The IBM 5100 and DisplayWriter were also personal computing devices, but most people don’t count them as a first.)

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