new book on history of computing at NSF
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
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/14...
Evan, welcome to academic publishing. :-( On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 7:46 PM Evan Koblentz <evan@vcfed.org> wrote:
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/14... _______________________________________________ This email is relayed from members at sigcis.org, the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. Opinions expressed here are those of the member posting and are not reviewed, edited, or endorsed by SIGCIS. The list archives are at http://lists.sigcis.org/pipermail/members-sigcis.org/ and you can change your subscription options at http://lists.sigcis.org/listinfo.cgi/members-sigcis.org
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On Dec 9, 2019, at 21:38, Ian S. King <isking@uw.edu> wrote:
Evan, welcome to academic publishing. :-(
On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 7:46 PM Evan Koblentz <evan@vcfed.org <mailto:evan@vcfed.org>> wrote: 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/14... <https://www.amazon.com/Computing-National-Science-Foundation-1950-2016/dp/1450372775>_______________________________________________ This email is relayed from members at sigcis.org <http://sigcis.org/>, the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. Opinions expressed here are those of the member posting and are not reviewed, edited, or endorsed by SIGCIS. The list archives are at http://lists.sigcis.org/pipermail/members-sigcis.org/ <http://lists.sigcis.org/pipermail/members-sigcis.org/> and you can change your subscription options at http://lists.sigcis.org/listinfo.cgi/members-sigcis.org <http://lists.sigcis.org/listinfo.cgi/members-sigcis.org>
-- Ian S. King, MSIS, MSCS, Ph.D. Candidate The Information School <http://ischool.uw.edu/> Dissertation: "Why the Conversation Mattered: Constructing a Sociotechnical Narrative Through a Design Lens
Principal Investigator, "Reflections on Early Computing and Social Change", UW IRB #42619
Archivist, Voices From the Rwanda Tribunal <http://tribunalvoices.org/> Value Sensitive Design Research Lab <http://vsdesign.org/>
University of Washington
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Dear Bill, congratulations on concluding an extremely productive year, cheers, Gerard ________________________________ Van: Members <members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org> namens William Aspray <William.Aspray@Colorado.EDU> Verzonden: dinsdag 10 december 2019 01:20 Aan: members@lists.sigcis.org Onderwerp: [SIGCIS-Members] new book on history of computing at NSF 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
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 Minneapolis, MN 55455 612 624 5050 Phone 612 625 8054 Fax 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 _______________________________________________ This email is relayed from members at sigcis.org, the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. Opinions expressed here are those of the member posting and are not reviewed, edited, or endorsed by SIGCIS. The list archives are at http://lists.sigcis.org/pipermail/members-sigcis.org/ and you can change your subscription options at http://lists.sigcis.org/listinfo.cgi/members-sigcis.org
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