The Museum is devoted to:
Promoting an awareness of the history of computing,
Supporting research in the historiography of computing,
Providing support to teachers at all levels who are attempting to teach the history of computing.
Site, which has not been updated since 2002, contains some images of historical computing devices and lectures from Dr. Tim Bergin's History of Computing class at American University. A related bibliography is also made available.
The Pew Internet & American Life Project produces reports that explore the impact of the Internet on families, communities, work and home, daily life, education, health care, and civic and political life. The Project aims to be an authoritative source on the evolution of the Internet through collection of data and analysis of real-world developments as they affect the virtual world.
An excellent resource for those interested in the impact the Internet has made on the lives of Americans. The site holds reports written by staff members and experts, multimedia presentations, data sets covering a variety of topics, press releases and a comprehensive set of links. Incredible amount of primary and secondary source material for researchers.
The Web site was constructed by staff in The Bancroft Library and the Berkeley Multimedia Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley. Its core resources draw on the Library's extensive collections of archives and oral histories, as well as resources created by and for the landmark symposium "Biotechnology at 25: Perspectives on History, Science, and Society" held on campus 12-13 March 1999 to celebrate the discovery of gene-cloning technology (recombinant DNA).
Our first phase of development was completed in October 1999; it was a prototype including a sample of available resources and a fully indexed streaming video of one of the Symposium participants, Stanley N. Cohen. We are seeking funding to enrich the prototype with high quality indexed video and audio files representing a broad selection of scientists and others who participated in the Symposium or are represented in the archival and oral history collections of the Library.
We will continue to build the Web site as we acquire and process materials, with a goal of providing a unique collection of primary materials for scholars in secondary and higher education and for the general public.
In addition to basic materials such as a glossary, a links page and an introduction to the project, this site includes an online exhibit that focuses on significant bioscientists, video from the symposium, and digitized oral histories. The site also includes an internal search engine which should help users to move quickly through the information.
This collection is free and open for everyone to use. Our goal in digitizing these movies and putting them online is to provide easy access to a rich and fascinating core collection of archival films. By providing near-unrestricted access to these films, we hope to encourage widespread use of moving images in new contexts by people who might not have used them before.
This site offers films selected from the Prelinger Archives, a privately held collection of 20th-century American ephemeral films (films produced for specific purposes at specific times, not intended for long-term preservation). The site contains more than 800 high-quality digital video files documenting various aspects of 20th-century North American culture, society, leisure, history, industry, technology, and landscape. It includes films produced between 1927 and 1987 by and for U.S. corporations, nonprofit organizations, trade associations, community and interest groups, and educational institutions. Some of the films depict ordinary people in normal daily activities, such as working, dishwashing, driving, and learning proper behavior. For example, one 1955 film illustrates the ¨comfort and delight of jet travel for Pan American World Airways and a 1930s film shows how and where bananas were grown and imported into the United States. The site contains an alphabetical index and printable list of all film titles. Note that viewing these movies requires a DSL or faster connection and, even with a fast connection, many of the movies take several minutes to load. This is an important source for those interested in American Studies, business and labor history, advertising and art history, cinema studies, and cultural history.
Memory, a major exhibition at the Exploratorium, ran from May 22, 1998 through January 10, 1999. More than 40 new exhibits grouped into six broad areas guided visitors through the labyrinth of memory from personal, social, cultural, psychological, and neurological perspectives. To provide a better understanding of the exhibition, descriptions of the thematic sections follow. Memory was made possible by the National Science Foundation and sponsored by Bank of America.
A collection of some of the displays from the above mentioned exhibition. Includes audio files of lectures which were presented, as well as several related articles and activities. Of particular note is a section devoted to the atomic bombing of Nagasaki which contains images, oral histories submitted to the site, and links for further study.
The Einstein Papers Project (EPP) publishes in large book format The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, an edition of twenty-five planned volumes of Albert Einstein's scientific, professional and personal papers, manuscripts and correspondence. Eight volumes have been published so far by Princeton University Press; two more are in preparation, to be published within the next three years. Most of the original documents in the Einstein collection are located at The Albert Einstein Archives at the Jewish National and University Library at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
Website for the Einstein Papers Project, which has begun to publish an enormous amount of Einstein's papers, both personal and professional. No online resources, however, except for a link to the Einstein Archives Online, which reproduces a portion of the collection.
Unraveling past climate conditions by drilling through kilometers of ice is surely one of our era's grand accomplishments. Future generations will want to study how it was done but they will fail unless the participants act now to secure a high-quality historical record. Around 1999 three leading scientific organizations, the American Meteorological Society (GATE project history), the American Geophysical Union (solar variability history), and the American Institute of Physics (Center for History of Physics), with support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, formed a consortium to experiment with using the World Wide Web to locate, create, and preserve historical documentation in science and technology. The aim was to find ways to establish low-cost mechanisms for gathering much historical information that would otherwise be lost to posterity. A continuation of this effort is the History of Recent Science and Technology Project.
Three scientific organizations: the American Meteorological Society, the American Geophysical Union, and the American Institute of Physics (Center for History of Physics) have developed this site to collect the first-hand accounts of those involved with the Greenland Ice Sheet Projects (GISP1 and GISP2) and the development of deep-core ice drilling. The site asks for the memories of scientists, engineers, students, financial backers and others who participated in these research efforts. Participants can send material to the American Institute of Physics, which runs the site, or join an online discussion newsgroup on a variety of topics relating to the GISP efforts. In addition, there is a brief historical essay on ice drilling and its scientific importance and links to other related sites. This site is funded by the Sloan Foundation.
The primary purpose of this site is to provide a forum in which interested individuals can participate in on-line discussions of programming language and software engineering topics. It is hoped, that in time, such discussions will result in publishable articles or serve as the basis for conferences on selected topics. A secondary purpose is to archive original documents, materials, and commentaries associated with specific programming languages and software engineering tools and techniques.
A few discussion threads on programming language and software engineering. Little to offer and outdated. Note: page uses frames-click on Sloan project to access History of Programming Languages and Software Engineering section.
Three leading scientific organizations, the American Meteorological Society (AMS), the American Geophysical Union (AGU), and the American Institute of Physics (Center for History of Physics) (AIP), have formed a consortium to experiment with using the World Wide Web to locate, create and preserve historical documentation in science and technology. For selected research topics, pioneers are urged to submit personal recollections, documents or pointers to collections of documents, and comments on materials submitted by others. The material will be gathered in databases, through discussion forums and other mechanisms familiar to most scientists. If we succeed, we will have shown other scientific organizations how to establish low-cost mechanisms for gathering much historical information that would otherwise be lost.
This site has not been updated since 1999, but nonetheless contains excellent primary source material for researches who are interested in one of the two topics on which material was collected: the Clean Air Act and and the GATE experiment of the Global Atmospheric Research program. Both areas include general histories, primary documents, images, interviews, biographies, and links for further study.
Marie Sklodowska Curie opened up the science of radioactivity. She is best known as the discoverer of the radioactive elements polonium and radium and as the first person to win two Nobel prizes. For scientists and the public, her radium was a key to a basic change in our understanding of matter and energy. Her work not only influenced the development of fundamental science but also ushered in a new era in medical research and treatment.
The American Institute of Physics has combined exhibits with educational syllabi, and archives in this deep site. Included are exhibits about Madame Currie, Albert Einstein, the electron, the transistor and Werner Heisenberg and the Uncertainty Principle. Archives include thousands of digitized images in the Emilio Sagres visual archive, and the book and manuscript catalogue of the Neils Bohr library. The site also includes online syllabi and sample readings for history of physics teachers, information about accessing information at AIP, and online newsletters relating to the library and Center for History of Physics.
