Computer History Museum Book Prize
The Computer History Museum Prize is awarded by SIGCIS to the author of an outstanding book in the history of computing broadly conceived, published during the prior three years (e.g. books published in 2006-2008 are eligible for the inaugural 2009 award). Books in translation are eligible for three years following the date of their publication in English. The prize of $1000, established through the generosity of an anonymous donor who wishes to honor the Computer History Museum, is administered by SIGCIS, SHOT’s special interest group for computers, information and society. Publishers, authors, and other interested members of the computer-history community are invited to nominate books. Send one copy of the nominated title to each of the committee members listed below. To be considered, book submissions must be postmarked by 1 April 2009. For more information, please contact the prize committee chair or SIGCIS secretary (secretary@sigcis.org). Thomas J. Misa [chair] Charles Babbage Institute 211 Andersen Library 222 - 21st Avenue South University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN 55455 tmisa@umn.edu Paul E. Ceruzzi MRC 311 National Air and Space Museum PO Box 37012 Smithsonian Institution Washington, DC 20013-7012 CeruzziP@si.edu Jennifer S. Light Northwestern University School of Communication Frances Searle Building 2240 Campus Drive, Room 2-152 Evanston, IL 60208-2952 light@northwestern.edu
I am running into difficulty getting my hands on numbers that tell us how many people were working on, inventing, using computers in the USA in the 1940s. Does anybody have any data on this matter that I can use? Or point me specifically to where it is at? I will settle even for data on specific places, like Philadelphia, Boston, New York. Thanks. Dr. Jim (James) W. Cortada IBM Institute for Business Value 2917 Irvington Way Madison, WI 53713 USA jwcorta@us.ibm.com 608-270-4462
Jim In UPenn, these figures are in the Associate Dean's files. I would guess that they are in the same place at Harvard and MIT as the associate dean controls manpower and budget reporting. I'vemlookes at the Philly record and was surprised at how small the number seemed to be. A useful benchmark is the number of attendees at the November 1945 Harvard/MIT computing conference. The list of attendees is in MTAC. I recall it to be 83. David Grier Current associate dean for international affairs Former associate dean for engineering George Washington university. Sent from my iPhone On May 16, 2009, at 3:14 PM, James Cortada <jwcorta@us.ibm.com> wrote:
I am running into difficulty getting my hands on numbers that tell us how many people were working on, inventing, using computers in the USA in the 1940s. Does anybody have any data on this matter that I can use? Or point me specifically to where it is at? I will settle even for data on specific places, like Philadelphia, Boston, New York.
Thanks.
Dr. Jim (James) W. Cortada IBM Institute for Business Value 2917 Irvington Way Madison, WI 53713 USA jwcorta@us.ibm.com 608-270-4462
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Jim, My observations from the Eckert-Mauchly and ERA files at Hagley supports David's observations. However, I was only able finding useful numbers here and there. Lars Heide Copenhagen Business School -----Original Message----- From: members-bounces@sigcis.org [mailto:members-bounces@sigcis.org] On Behalf Of David Alan Grier (gwu) Sent: 16. maj 2009 22:42 To: James Cortada Cc: members@sigcis.org Subject: Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Help Please Jim In UPenn, these figures are in the Associate Dean's files. I would guess that they are in the same place at Harvard and MIT as the associate dean controls manpower and budget reporting. I'vemlookes at the Philly record and was surprised at how small the number seemed to be. A useful benchmark is the number of attendees at the November 1945 Harvard/MIT computing conference. The list of attendees is in MTAC. I recall it to be 83. David Grier Current associate dean for international affairs Former associate dean for engineering George Washington university. Sent from my iPhone On May 16, 2009, at 3:14 PM, James Cortada <jwcorta@us.ibm.com> wrote:
I am running into difficulty getting my hands on numbers that tell us how many people were working on, inventing, using computers in the USA in the 1940s. Does anybody have any data on this matter that I can use? Or point me specifically to where it is at? I will settle even for data on specific places, like Philadelphia, Boston, New York.
Thanks.
Dr. Jim (James) W. Cortada IBM Institute for Business Value 2917 Irvington Way Madison, WI 53713 USA jwcorta@us.ibm.com 608-270-4462
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David Alan Grier (gwu) -
James Cortada -
Jeffrey D. Tang -
Lars Heide