On 12/9/19 7:20 PM, William Aspray 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

Sounds great, but the price is outrageous:

https://www.amazon.com/Computing-National-Science-Foundation-1950-2016/dp/1450372775

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