Computer History Links
Recently at SIGCSE there was a panel on Perspectives on History in Computing and Education with John Impagliazzo, Bill Aspray, Mary Anne Egan, and Vicki Almstrum. I wasn't able to make that session but Vicki Almstrum sent out an email with a lot of links from that session to the SIGCSE mailing list. The list seemed just too useful not to pass along.
Also if you are interested in computer history you may want to consider joining the IT History Society, which I believe is free. To sign up, please visit the page https://ithistory.org/membership/member-form.php
List of Links
John Impagliazzo’s History Site https://www.CompHist.org/
A set of images and descriptions of some early computer data storage devices.
IEEE History Center Virtual Museum https://www.ieee-virtual-museum.org/
Computer History Museum https://www.computerhistory.org/
Charles Babbage Institute https://www.cbi.umn.edu/
Society for the History of Technology, Special Interest Group in Computers, Information, and Society
- Main page: https://www.sigcis.org/
- Historical resources: https://www.sigcis.org/?q=node/10
Atsushi Akera and William Aspray, Using History to Teach Computer Science and Related Disciplines (Washington, DC: Computing Research Association, 2004, 391 pages, download PDF for free), https://www.cra.org/reports/using.history.pdf
IT History Society (ITHS)
- Main page: https://www.ithistory.org/
- Membership: https://www.ithistory.org/membership/membership.php
Charles Babbage Institute Oral History Collection https://www.cbi.umn.edu/oh/
ACM Oral Histories https://portal.acm.org/toc.cfm?id=1141880&type=proceeding&coll=ACM&dl=A
Computerworld Oral Histories https://www.cwhonors.org/archives/histories.htm
National Museum of American History Computer Oral Histories Collection
- https://www.si.edu/harcourt/nmah/lemel/Pioneer.htm
- https://invention.smithsonian.org/Resources/Fa_Comporalhist_Index.Aspx
Silicon Genesis collection at Stanford University https://silicongenesis.stanford.edu/complete_listing.html
SIAM History Project https://history.siam.org/
Computing Educators Oral History Project https://www.ceohp.org/