Congratulations Bill, Peter, and Rick! (Just purchased a copy)

We, of course, are thrilled this tremendously important (paper and digital) collection of archival materials and oral histories are being added to the CBI Archives--it will be invaluable to researchers studying the strategic, technical, social, and policy history of academic and government computer science and engineering research over many decades. It also is an incredible complement to our Academic Computing Collection, our many oral histories on leaders and projects of DARPA's IPTO (a substantial number conducted by Bill), and our ACM Organization Records. I would like to publicly thank Peter, Bill, and Rick for this landmark project, the path breaking book, the opportunity to serve on the advisory committee with distinguished colleagues Janet and Tom, and especially for donating the abundant and extremely rich collected materials/records/oral histories to CBI, we are very grateful.

Best, Jeff

Jeffrey R. Yost, Ph.D.

Director, Charles Babbage Institute

Research Professor, Program in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine

222 21st Avenue South

University of Minnesota

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On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 6:21 PM William Aspray <William.Aspray@colorado.edu> wrote:

You may be interested in the recent publication of Peter A. Freeman, W. Richards Adrion, and William Aspray, Computing and the National Science Foundation, 1950-2016: Building a Foundation for Modern Computing (ACM Books, 2019, 407 pp.).

Thanks to Janet Abbate, Tom Haigh, and Jeff Yost for serving on the historical advisory committee for the project; and Tom Misa for shepherding the book through the publication process. NSF supported the project with a grant but did not have any editorial control over the content.

The project resulted in approximately 5,000 documents and 50 oral histories being deposited at the Babbage Institute. These materials will eventually be available for scholarly use once the collection has been processed.

-Bill Aspray

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