Historical Resources
Displaying 19 Resources (Type: Academia)
American Sociological Association Section on Communication and Information Technologies (CITASA)
CITAMS (formerly CITASA) is the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology section of the American Sociological Association, a professional body for scholars studying media,…
Association for Computers and the Humanities
The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) is a professional organization focused on cultivating and strengthening the field of digital humanities, supporting scholars entering the field.…
Bit by Bit
Bit by Bit is an online textbook hosted on Haverford College's WordPress platform, serving as a course resource for a History of Mechanized Thought class. It presents a chronological narrative of…
Bolo Museum
Musée Bolo is a museum of computing, digital culture, and video games hosted by the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland. It is run by the publicly recognized foundation…
Brief History of Computer Operating Systems
Lecture notes from a Gordon College operating systems course (CS322) tracing the evolution of OS design from bare-machine and stacked-job batch systems through spooling and multiprogramming systems.…
Carnegie Mellon University Archives - Allen Newell Collection
A digital archive hosted by Carnegie Mellon University Libraries containing the papers of Allen Newell, a founding figure in artificial intelligence and cognitive science. The collection includes…
Carnegie Mellon University Archives - Herbert Simon Collection
This is Carnegie Mellon University's digital archive dedicated to Herbert Simon, the Nobel laureate and AI pioneer, hosted by the CMU Libraries/University Archives. It provides full-text access to…
Carnegie Mellon University's Ada Project (TAP) Past Notable Women of Computing & Mathematics website
CMU's Ada Project (TAP), celebrating women in computing with resources, biographies, and information about notable women in computer science and technology.
Charles Babbage Institute
Charles Babbage Institute at the University of Minnesota, a research center dedicated to the history of information technology with extensive archives and oral histories.
Computer Museum of University of Amsterdam
The UvA Computermuseum, founded in 1991 and part of the University of Amsterdam's Special Collections department, holds a collection of technical and scientific electronic computing equipment…
E. W. Dijkstra Archive
Hosted by the University of Texas at Austin, this archive provides online access to over a thousand of Edsger W. Dijkstra's manuscripts, technical notes, and reports (the "EWDs"), digitized as…
Edsac Simulator
EDSAC Simulator project at the University of Warwick, recreating the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator, one of the first practical stored-program computers.
ENIAC Museum!
This University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science page commemorates ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic computer, built at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering…
InterPARES Project
InterPARES (International Research on Permanent Authentic Records in Electronic Systems) is a multinational research project based at the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies at the…
Konrad Zuse
The Konrad Zuse Internet Archive, hosted by Zuse Institute Berlin, provides digitized access to the private papers of computer pioneer Konrad Zuse, including technical drawings, photographs,…
Programming Languages & Compilers
SAL (Encyclopaedia of Scientific and Analytical Software) is a catalog hosted at Moscow State University indexing programming languages, compilers, and interpreters used in scientific computing. This…
Stanford and Silicon Valley Archives Project
The Silicon Valley Archives, housed within Stanford University Libraries' Department of Special Collections, identify, preserve, and provide access to documentary records of science, technology, and…
Swarthmore College Computer Society
Swarthmore College Computer Society (SCCS) is a student-run organization providing digital services—such as mailing lists, account management, a course planner, and server access—to Swarthmore…
York University Computer Museum, York University
York University Computer Museum in Toronto, Canada, preserving and exhibiting significant computing artifacts with educational programs on computing history.