Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility records
Scope and Content Note
This collection contains annual reports, information sheets on CPSR positions on issues, the inaugural issue of the CPSR forum, several issues of the CPSR newsletter, CPSR presentations, and information on the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), also known as the "Star Wars defense."
Dates
- 1983-1991
Creator
- Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (Organization)
Language of Materials
English
Use of Materials:
Access to the collection is unrestricted.
Copyright:
The Charles Babbage Institute holds the copyright to all materials in the collection, except for items covered by a prior copyright (such as published materials). Researchers may quote from the collection under the fair use provisions of the copyright law (Title 17, U.S. Code).
Historical Note
Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR) began as a discussion group concerned with the increasing threat of nuclear war on a computer message network at a research center in Palo Alto, California in October 1981. An organizational meeting was held in June 1982, and CPSR was incorporated in March 1983. CPSR's first annual report states "our primary concern is the increasing role that computers play in the arms race and the ways in which their misuse might increase the threat of nuclear war."
Extent
2 boxes (0.75 cubic feet))
Abstract
Contains annual reports, information sheets on CPSR positions on issues, the inaugural issue of the CPSR forum, several issues of the CPSR newsletter, CPSR presentations, and information on the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI).
Acquisition:
Records donated by Severo Ornstein in 1994.
- Computer industry -- Societies, etc. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Electronic data processing -- Societies, etc. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Military art and science -- Data processing -- Protest movements. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Nuclear warfare. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Strategic Defense Initiative -- Protest movements. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Title
- Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility Records, 1983-1991. Finding Aid.
- Author
- Prepared by Bruce H. Bruemmer and Kevin D. Corbitt, June 1995; Jessica Huffman, December 2007.
- Date
- 1995
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Collecting Area Details
Contact The Charles Babbage Institute Archives Collecting Area
Elmer L. Andersen Library
222 - 21st Avenue South
Minneapolis MN 55455
612-624-5050
cbi@umn.edu
