Computers -- History
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Edmund C. Berkeley papers
Collection
Identifier: CBI 50
Abstract
Contains correspondence, notes, memoranda, lists, reports, reference material, financial records, publications, posters, advertisements, photographs, and a videotape relating to Edmund Berkeley and Berkeley Enterprises. The earliest records in the collection relate to his insurance work, the applications of symbolic logic and computing machines to business, the formation of the Association for Computing Machinery, and his military service at Dahlgren. Later records focus on the publications...
Dates:
1923-1988
Found in:
Charles Babbage Institute Archives
Isaac L. Auerbach papers
Collection
Identifier: CBI 52
Abstract
Collection contains documentation of Isaac L. Auerbach's activities in several professional associations, especially IFIP, his consulting, and other business activities. The IFIP records include materials about the biennial congresses and document the growth and activities of the federation; its relationship with other professional organizations is also documented. The AFIPS records focus on the History of Computing Committee and the Computer History Project of the late 1960s to mid 1970s,...
Dates:
1948-1987; bulk 1957-1987
Found in:
Charles Babbage Institute Archives
Margaret R. Fox papers
Collection
Identifier: CBI 45
Abstract
Collection contains records collected by Margaret Fox in an effort to document some of the early computer development activities of NBS. The collection contains reports, including the original report on the ENIAC, UNIVAC, and many early in-house National Bureau of Standards (NBS) activity reports, memoranda on SEAC, SWAC, and DYSEAC, seminar and conference materials -- including Samuel Alexander's notes from the Moore School of Engineering course, "Theory and techniques for design of...
Dates:
1935-1976
Found in:
Charles Babbage Institute Archives
