Upcoming Events
ITHS 2008 Annual Meeting
ITHS session at the 2007 annual
meeting of the Society for the
History of Technology.
On October 22, 2008, the IT History Society will hold
its second annual conference. The title of this year's
conference is "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 - will present their experiences.
A panel of Silicon Valley lawyers will discuss legal and other
issues relating to making a company's history available internally
and externally.
The meeting is being held at Applied Materials, 3050 Bowers
Ave., Santa Clara, CA 95054; and attendees will have a chance
to view the Applied Materials Heritage Exhibit. Registration
is free, but we ask that attendees register in advance since
seating is limited. Please take two minutes to register
now.
More information and Registration Form
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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