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David Kirsch lectures on legal issues of record-
keeping at the 2008 annual conference.
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ITHS 2008 Annual Meeting
On October 22, 2008, the IT History Society held its
second annual conference. The title of the conference
was "Leveraging Yesterday: Using History to Create Value
Today and Tomorrow in the High-Tech Company." Three companies
that have successfully used history for company purposes — Agilent,
IBM, and Symantec — presented their experiences. A panel
of Silicon Valley lawyers discussed legal and other issues
relating to making a company's history available internally
and externally.
The meeting was held at Applied Materials, 3050 Bowers Ave.,
Santa Clara, CA 95054, and attendees had a chance to view the
Applied Materials Heritage Exhibit.
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ITHS session at the 2007 annual
meeting of the Society for the
History of Technology.
ITHS 2007 Annual Meeting
ITHS co-located its 2007 annual meeting with
the annual meeting of the Society for the History of Technology,
which celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2007. The ITHS meeting
was held on Sunday, October 21 at the Capitol Hilton hotel in
downtown Washington, DC.
There was a morning meeting, held from 8:30 - 10:15 AM, for
representatives of institutions doing work in IT history. ITHS
presented its new operating plan, unveiled its new website, and
had a lengthy discussion with those present both about how ITHS
can best support the IT history community and what opportunities
there are for partnership between ITHS and other organizations
working in the IT history field.
There was an afternoon meeting, held from 1:30 - 5:00 PM, open
to anyone interested in IT history. In the first part of the
meeting, ITHS presented its new operating plan, unveiled its
new website, and had a lengthy discussion with those present
about how ITHS can best support the IT history community. The
second half of the afternoon meeting involved some brief talks
and more lengthy discussion of three topics:
- Undertaking IT history activities in an engineering context
such as in an engineering university or an engineering-centered
company
- The problems associated with writing a technical history
of computer science and IT
- The status of research on the history of IT developments
outside the United States
The afternoon session concluded with an open discussion among
the participants about their current projects.
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