Featured Projects Archive
Pioneers in the in the development of the
ALGOL programming language.
Software for Europe: Constructing Europe through
Software
A group of historians have won a highly competitive award from
the European Union to carry out a project on the history of software
in Europe. The project involves researchers from the Netherlands,
the Czech Republic, Finland, Belgium, France, England, Greece,
Germany, and the United States.
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The Internet and American Business
How would you write a history of the Internet? The subject is
rapidly changing and expanding into virtually every aspect of
everyday life. If one looks at the best histories of the Internet
that currently exist, such as books by historians Janet Abbate
or Arthur Norberg, or by journalist Katie Hafner, one sees a
picture of the Internet as a technology used only for military
and scientific purposes, by hundreds or at most thousands of
users. The Internet that we know today, with millions of people
using it for business and personal purposes, happen too late
to come across at all in these accounts. One group of scholars
has made a first attempt to write a history of the Internet as
we know it.
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Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflight
One of the member's of the ITHS historical advisory committee,
David Mindell, who is the Frances and David Dibner Professor
of the History of Engineering and Manufacturing, and Director
of the Science, Technology, and Society Program, at MIT, has
recently published a major study in the history of IT, entitled Digital
Apollo (MIT Press, 2008).
"Digital Apollo is an
excellent and unique historical account of the lengthy and often
pitched struggle of designers, engineers, and pilots to successfully
integrate man and complex computer systems for the Apollo lunar
landings. It brings back fond memories."
--Edgar Mitchell, Sc.D.; Captain, USN (retired)
Lunar Module Pilot, Apollo 14
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Computer History Museum Prize
The Computer History Museum Prize
is awarded by Special Interest Group on Computers, Information,
and Society of the Society for the History of Technology (SIGCIS)
to the author of an outstanding book in the history of computing
broadly conceived, published during the prior three years (e.g.
books published in 2006-2008 are eligible for the inaugural 2009
award). Books in translation are eligible for three years following
the date of their publication in English. The prize of $1000,
established through the generosity of an anonymous donor who
wishes to honor the Computer History Museum, is administered
by SIGCIS, SHOT's special interest group for computers, information
and society.
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