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New Member of the IT History Society Board of Directors

Leslie Berlin joins the IT History Society Board of Directors

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) January 22, 2010 – The IT History Society (www.IThistory.org) is pleased to announce that Leslie Berlin has joined as a member of its Board of Directors. Ms. Berlin will be joining existing board members Gideon Gartner who is founder of the Gartner Group, James Cortada of IBM, Peter Cunningham of INPUT, Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive, William H. Murray, formally with Verizon, Ted Withington of Arthur D. Little, and Jeffery Stein of Peyton Investments, Inc.

Leslie Berlin is Project Historian for the Silicon Valley Archives at Stanford University.  She is the author of The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley, a biography of Intel co-founder and microchip co-inventor Robert Noyce.  She also contributed the "Prototype" column on innovation to The New York Times from September 2008 to July 2009.  She serves on the advisory committee to the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.

“The IT History Society is pleased to expand the board with Leslie Berlin as its newest director.  Her background in education and her passion to expand the movement of archiving the information technology revolution and the history of computing creates a major opportunity," said Jeffery D. Stein, Chairman of the Board.
 
About ITHS

The growing rooster of the IT History Society, now standing of over 500 members, includes Caltech, MIT, the Stanford Silicon Valley Archives, Agilent, ACM History Committee, Applied Materials, Computer Conservation Society, Deutsches Museum, Hewlett Packard, IBM, INPUT, INTEL, The Internet Archive, Microsoft, the Smithsonian Institution, Symantec, Center for Technology Innovation, Charles Babbage Institute, Computer History Museum, IEEE History Center, Mid-Atlantic Retro Computing Hobbyists, and the U.K. National Archive for the History of Computing.

The IT History Society assists in the collaboration of like-minded institutions and individuals to expand the reach of historical and archival activities while at the same time communicating to the private sector the value of preserving their history and heritage for generations to come.


For more information, please contact Jeffery Stein