Lars Heide, internationally known educator and historian, joins the IT History Society Board San Francisco, CA (PrBuzz) October 3, 2012 - Lars Heide, associate professor at the Centre for Business History at the Copenhagen Business School and editor of the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, joins the <http://www.ithistory.org/> IT History Society's (www.IThistory.org) board of directors. "Lars Heide is our first director that has been elected to the Board of the IT History Society that resides outside North America", said Jeffery Stein, Chairman; "one half of the Society's membership resides outside the North America, Lars is in unique position to guide the Society in becoming an even more of an international organization". "I am pleased and honored to join as a director of the Society and I look forward to assisting in the Society's international interests", said Lars Heide, "for I was the first international member to join the Society at its beginning in 2007". 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 the accompanying return on investment. The Society's membership includes over 700 members of which there are 150 historians, archivists, plus IT companies, and people interested in information technology including IBM, Hewlett-Packard, INTEL, The Internet Archive, 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 while at the same time 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 11,000 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. IT History Society One Blackfield Drive - Suite 331 Tiburon, CA 94920 (415) 435-2263 info@ITHistory.org www.ITHistory.org <http://www.ithistory.org/> Sm logo dropEnsuring the Future by Preserving the Past <http://www.twitter.com/ithistoryorg> twitter <http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/It-History-Society/143799552346273> find-us-on-facebook