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What's New
at ITHS
To see samples of how members archive, visit our current
featured site.
Hot Off the Presses! ITHS Founder Sam Wyly has just published 1,000
Dollars & an Idea (New York: Newmarket Press, 2008), an
autobiographical account of lessons learned as a highly successful entrepreneur
and business executive in both the IT (University Computing, Sterling Software)
and non-computing (Maverick Capital, Bonanza Steakhouse, Michaels Stores,
Green Mountain Energy) industries.
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Ensuring the Future by Preserving the Past
The IT History website provides
a place where professionals and amateurs alike can exchange
information about IT history projects they're contemplating,
seeking funding for, currently undertaking, or have completed.
In addition to information about the IT History Society,
you can learn about project funding and find links to valuable
online resources that are provided by other organizations. |
Featured Project
 One
of the member's of the ITHS historical advisory committee,
David Mindell, who is the Frances and David Dibner Professor
of the History of Engineering and Manufacturing, and
Director of the Science, Technology, and Society Program,
at MIT, has recently published a major study in the history
of IT, entitled Digital Apollo (MIT
Press, 2008).
"Digital Apollo is
an excellent and unique historical account of the lengthy
and often pitched struggle of designers, engineers, and
pilots to successfully integrate man and complex computer
systems for the Apollo lunar landings. It brings back
fond memories."
--Edgar Mitchell, Sc.D.; Captain, USN
(retired) Lunar Module Pilot, Apollo 14
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about this project]
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