[SIGCIS-Members] IT History Society Appoints New Board Member - Dr. Randy Katz

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Randy Howard Katz, UC Berkeley Professor of Computer Sciences and Noted
Information Technology Scientist, Joins the IT History Society Board

 

San Francisco, CA (PrBuzz) April 11, 2012 - Randy H. Katz, University of
California, Berkeley United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) Distinguished
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), and a noted
information technology scientist, joins the  <http://www.ithistory.org/> IT
History Society's (www.IThistory.org) board of directors. 

 

"Randy Katz is a well known computer scientist and professor.  His
contributions as a Board member and Trustee of the IT History Society will
expand our reach", said Jeffery Stein, Chairman; "Randy's experience
bringing the White House onto the Internet, his developing RAID technology
for file systems, his many courses and teachings at one of America's top
universities, and his many other accomplishments will strengthen ITHS even
more".

 

"I am honored to be associated with the Society dedicated as it is to saving
the history of this crucial field of technology, largely created within our
own lifetimes," said Randy Katz, UMC Distinguished Professor of EECS at UC
Berkeley.

 

The IT History Society with its many new databases is becoming the 'table of
contents' of where the history of information technology is located.  In
addition, the Society wants to encourage information technology companies to
preserve their histories and show companies the return on investment derived
by keeping their histories alive.

 

The Society's membership includes nearly 700 historians and archivists, as
well as institutions such as IBM, Hewlett-Packard, INTEL, The Internet
Archive, Center for Technology Innovation, Charles Babbage Institute,
Computer History Museum, IEEE History Center, Mid-Atlantic Retro Computing
Hobbyists, McKesson, U.K. National Archive for the History of Computing, ACM
History Committee, FedEx, Agilent, British Library, Applied Materials,
Caltech, Computer Conservation Society, Deutsches Museum, Deltek, Microsoft,
MIT, the Smithsonian Institution, and Symantec.  Membership in the Society
is complimentary due to the generous donations from the computer industry.

 

The IT History Society supports the collaboration of like-minded
institutions and individuals in expanding the reach of historical and
archival activities.  At the same time ITHS focuses on communicating to the
private sector the value of preserving their history and heritage for future
generations.  The IT History Society continually promotes the value of
preservation of information technology corporate history with its many
databases and acting as a gateway for the location of historical information
as a teaching and research aid for colleges, universities and researchers in
both the public and private sectors.

 

Another key resource is the IT Honor Roll Database
<http://ithistory.org/honor_roll/honor-roll-random.php>
http://ithistory.org/honor_roll/honor-roll-random.php The Honor Roll
includes individuals who have made a noteworthy contribution to the
information technology industry. The IT History Society Historical Resource
Sites comprises over 1,600 historical information technology sites that are
indexed by the Society for use by educators, students, and researchers.
<http://www.ithistory.org/resource_sites/resource-sites.php>
http://www.ithistory.org/resource_sites/resource-sites.php An added database
is the  hardware database of all information technology hardware ever
manufactured.  The library consists of over 2,000 entries growing by over
100 per day.  The database is located on the web at
<http://ithistory.org/hardware/hardware-name.php>
http://ithistory.org/hardware/hardware-name.php

 

 

About ITHS

 

The IT History Society exists to enhance and expand works concerning the
history of Information Technology and to demonstrate the value of IT history
for the understanding and improvement of our present and future world.

 

 

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Tiburon, CA 94920

(415) 435-2263

 

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