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IT History Society Membership Continues to Grow
San Francisco, CA, December 19, 2008 – The
IT History Society (www.IThistory.org)
has grown to more than 500 members since the announcement of
its redirection in Washington DC at its launch on October 21,
2007. The IT History Society, formerly known as the Charles Babbage
Foundation, was created with the goal of enhancing and expanding
works concerning the history of Information Technology, and demonstrating
the value of IT history to the understanding and improvement
of our world.
"We are pleased with the reception from the information
technology sector," said Jeffery D. Stein, Chairman of the
Board. "We see this continuing increase in membership as
a validation of our mission to preserve the history of the information
technology. This technology has been and continues to be a shaping
force on the modern world, and understanding its past will help
us to improve its present and future uses."
Some of the recent members joining the growing rooster of the
IT History Society are ACM History Committee, Agilent, Applied
Materials, Caltech, Computer Conservation Society, Deutsches
Museum, Hewlett Packard, IBM, INPUT, INTEL, The Internet Archive,
Microsoft, the Smithsonian Institution, and Symantec.
The membership presently includes more than 250 historians and
archivists, as well as institutions such as the Center for Technology
Innovation, Charles Babbage Institute, Computer History Museum,
IEEE History Center, Mid-Atlantic Retro Computing Hobbyists,
and the U.K. National Archive for the History of Computing.
The IT History Society assists in the collaboration of like-minded
institutions and individuals to expand the reach of historical
and archival activities while at the same time communicating
to the private sector the value of preserving their history and
heritage for generations to come.
About ITHS
The IT History Society exists to enhance and expand works concerning
the history of Information Technology and to demonstrate the
value of IT history to the understanding and improvement of our
present and future world.
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Online: http://www.IThistory.org
For more information, please contact Jeffery Stein |
