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Computers: From the Past to the Present

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:19.
  • Computers/Information Technology
  • Contemporary (Post-WWII)
  • Images
  • Modern (18th-20th Century)
  • Personal
  • Secondary Source
URL: 

http://www.eingang.org/Lecture/

Author: 
Michelle A. Hoyle
Excerpt: 

Welcome to Calypso's Lecture Series for CS-100. The first (and only) lecture in the series is about the history of computing from the past to the present. This offers the student or casual browser an overview of the advances in science that made desktop computers possible starting with the invention of counting.

Environment and History

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:19.
  • Contemporary (Post-WWII)
  • Earth Sciences
  • Modern (18th-20th Century)
  • Professional Association
  • Secondary Source
URL: 

http://www.erica.demon.co.uk/EH.html

Author: 
The White Horse Press
Excerpt: 

Environment and History is an interdisciplinary journal which aims to bring scholars in the humanities and biological sciences closer together, with the deliberate intention of constructing long and well-founded perspectives on present day environmental problems.

European Association for the Study of Science and Technology

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:19.
  • Computers/Information Technology
  • Consumer Technology
  • Contemporary (Post-WWII)
  • Earth Sciences
  • Engineering
  • Industrial/Military Technology
  • Life Sciences
  • Links
  • Medicine/Behavioral Science
  • Physical Sciences
  • Professional Association
  • Secondary Source
URL: 

http://www.chem.uva.nl/easst/

Excerpt: 

The purpose of EASST is to stimulate communcation, exchange and collaboration in the field of studies of science and technology. Europe in a larger sense evinces a variety of scholarly, cultural, linguistic and political styles, which EASST aims to bridge by providing a forum for discussion, as well as cooperative efforts in research and teachin

References -- History of Women in Science & Technology

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:19.
  • Consumer Technology
  • Secondary Source
  • University
URL: 

http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/tap/historical-refs.html

Author: 
Yale University
Excerpt: 

Abir-Am, Pnina G. and Dorinda Outram. Uneasy Career and Intimate Lives: Women in Science 1789-1997. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1987. (Book shows historical women who, through cleverness and careful planning, were able to combine both in-depth work in science with time for a family life.)

Alic, Margaret. Hypatia's Heritage: A History of Women in Science from Antiquity through the Nineteenth Century. Beacon Press, Boston, 1986. (History of women in the physical and natural sciences and mathematics, beginning with prehistoric times and ending with the late nineteenth century.)

Annotation: 

A list of references to works centering on the history of women in science and technology.

CHAC Computer History Association of California

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:19.
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  • Professional Association
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URL: 

http://www.chac.org/chac/

Author: 
CHAC
Excerpt: 

The Computer History Association of California is a charitable, nonprofit corporation established in 1993 to serve six major purposes:
* To study, preserve, protect and popularize the history of electronic computing in the State of California.
* To publish a quarterly journal called the Analytical Engine, devoted to the history which CHAC is mandated to preserve.
* To collect and archive hardware, software and documents significant to that history.
* To participate in an informal network of institutions specializing in computer history, in California and elsewhere.
* To correspond electronically, through the USENET newsgroup alt.folklore.computers, with computer historians worldwide.
* To plan strategically for the establishment of a major, comprehensive, public museum of computing, probably in the Silicon Valley area, by the turn of the century.

Netizens On the History and Impact of the Net

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:19.
  • Computers/Information Technology
  • Contemporary (Post-WWII)
  • Personal
  • Secondary Source
URL: 

http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/netbook/

Author: 
Michael Hauben and Ronda Hauben
Excerpt: 

This page contains links to Michael Hauben's and Ronda Hauben's on-line Netbook, Netizens: On the History and Impact of Usenet and the Internet. This netbook presents the history and impact of various aspects of the Net: the Internet, ARPANET, Usenet, etc. We hope to provide information which will help readers to understand where the Net has come from so as to help preserve its value throughout future developments and changes.

Unisys History Newsletter

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:19.
  • Computers/Information Technology
  • Contemporary (Post-WWII)
  • Links
  • Personal
  • Professional Association
  • Secondary Source
URL: 

http://www.cc.gatech.edu:80/services/unisys-folklore/

Author: 
George Gray
Excerpt: 

The Unisys History Newsletter is written and published by George Gray. George is a Systems Programmer for the State of Georgia Department of Administrative Services and is heavily involved in Unite Inc., a Unisys User Group. He began his work on the Unisys History Newsletter as a hobby and privately published his first six newsletters. Then, he began writing a regular computer history column in UniSphere magazine.

Working With Knowledge: International Archives Conference

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:19.
  • Contemporary (Post-WWII)
  • Earth Sciences
  • Life Sciences
  • Medicine/Behavioral Science
  • Physical Sciences
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URL: 

http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/asa/stama/conf

Excerpt: 

Working With Knowledge - International Archives Conference under the auspices of Science Technology and Medicine Archives International (a special interest group of the International Council on Archives) and Science Technology and Medicine Archives Australia (a special interest group of the Australian Society of Archivists Inc.)

Earth Sciences

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:19.
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  • Earth Sciences
  • Links
  • Professional Association
  • Secondary Source
URL: 

http://www.as.wvu.edu/ggood/

Author: 
Journal of the History of the Earth Sciences Society
Excerpt: 

The History of the Earth Sciences Society (HESS) was founded in 1982 to help satisfy four needs. First, the gap between the humanities and the sciences is bridged by some historians interested in the history of earth science, and by some geoscientists interested in the history of their fields...

Bright Sparcs (Biographies of Austrialian Scientists)

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:19.
  • Contemporary (Post-WWII)
  • Earth Sciences
  • Government
  • Images
  • Life Sciences
  • Links
  • Medicine/Behavioral Science
  • Modern (18th-20th Century)
  • Physical Sciences
  • Secondary Source
  • University
URL: 

http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/bsparcshome.htm

Author: 
Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre
Excerpt: 

A register of people involved in the development of science, technology, engineering and medicine in Australia, including references to their archival materials and bibliographic resources

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