Software Industry Special Interest Group ( Software History Center website )
Description of Resource:
The Software History Center website provides links to 1) a mission statement, 2) a description of projects (such as the Software Corporate Histories Project, the Center's archival collections, the Oral Histories Program and more) and 3) the Center's background, 4) a list of donors, brief biographies of the Center's leaders, 5) annual reports and strategy meeting minutes, 6) instructions ("Support Us") for those who want to make a donation, and 7) a site map. 8) The "History" link provides users with a brief outline/overview of the History of the Software Industry. Users can access more information by clicking on links embedded in the "History" page. 9) The "Other Resources" link gives users a software history bibliography. 10) The "Preservation" link invites users to contribute primary sources to the Software History Center.
Address:
5 St. John Place
Westport, CT 06880
United StatesContact name:
Burton Grad (Co-Chair); Luanne Johnson (Co-Chair)
Country phone code:
1
Contact phone:
203-222-8821
Email:
Website Url:
Is there a fee:
No
Sector:
Services:
"The Software Industry Special Interest Group is dedicated to preserving the history of the software industry, one of the largest and most influential industries in the world today." Their goals are to: "Identify where materials documenting the industry's early years still exist and encourage their preservation; Identify people who have personal knowledge of events that shaped the industry and support the collection and preservation of their recollections; Disseminate information about the industry's history to historians, researchers, students, industry and government people, and the general public through print and electronic media; [and] Encourage and support research on the history of the software industry... The SI SIG is working to preserve for future generations information about the companies, people, products, and events that shaped the evolution of this vital industry. The SI SIG has a very active program to conduct oral histories, collect historical source materials about companies in the industry, organize meetings and workshops, publish articles on this website, in the Computer History Museum’s Core Magazine and in the IEEE Annals of Computing History and to collect materials from industry pioneers" (excerpted from Software History Center website).
Public or private:
Public
Website or physical archive:
Website only