[SIGCIS-Members] The Communicators

Fri Mar 18 13:19:46 PDT 2022

Yes, as Debbie mentions we have the Edmund Berkeley papers, it is a very
full and large collection (about 90 boxes I think) on his life's work in
computing, anti-nuke, and other work. Bernadette Longo published an
insightful biography book using the collection. We have copies of Brainiac,
and some other artifacts along with the collection of papers. He was a
co-founder of ACM so also some in our ACM Organizational Records on
Berkeley.

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On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 2:49 AM Deborah Douglas <ddouglas at mit.edu> wrote:

> We(MIT Museum) recently acquired some of Edmund Berkeley’s games (I’ve
> attached a picture of Brainiac)  from the estate of his Berkely’s son (most
> of the papers went to the Babbage Institute that had already acquired
> materials from Berkeley.). One thing that I learned is that Patrick
> McGovern’s (MIT, 1959) first job was writing for Berkeley’s *Computers &
> Automation* magazine.
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> *From: *Members <members-bounces at lists.sigcis.org> on behalf of Lee
> Vinsel <lee.vinsel at gmail.com>
> *Date: *Thursday, March 17, 2022 at 4:12 PM
> *To: *Evan Koblentz <evank at njit.edu>
> *Cc: *members at SIGCIS.org <members at sigcis.org>
> *Subject: *Re: [SIGCIS-Members] The Communicators
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> Evan et al,
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> This is a great topic! I think Patrick McCray is traveling at the moment,
> but he is currently at work on a book that examines the history of
> computing via a number of books on computing. His argument is that writing
> on computing shaped how people experienced and thought about computing. His
> chapters are organized around a set number of books (can't remember the
> number), and his narrative covers the post-WWII period up to about 2000. As
> he examines this set of books, he also explores other books/writings, the
> publishing industry (and the role computers played in publishing), the rise
> of "tech journalism," and many other topics. I'm sure he would love to chat
> about what he's up to.
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> On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 10:58 AM Evan Koblentz <evank at njit.edu> wrote:
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> I’m interested in a new-to-me research angle: the people who changed
> computing by writing about it.
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> Lovelace comes to mind. So do Vannevar Bush and Edmund Berkeley.
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>    1. Who else should I consider from prior to 1965? (I have the
>    microcomputer generation covered.)
>    2. Are there existing papers on this subject?
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