Historical Resources
Displaying 33 Resources (Type: Research)
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.…
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
The ACM History Committee is a body within the Association for Computing Machinery, founded in 1947 and the largest educational and scientific society for the computing profession, dedicated to…
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…
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…
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.
Chip History Center
Chip History Center is a virtual museum of semiconductor and integrated circuit history built by TechInsights, drawing on its analyst library and industry network. It offers timelines, exhibits, a…
Colossus its Purpose and Operation
A website created by the late Tony Sale documenting the history, science, and engineering of WWII cryptanalysis, including the Colossus computer, Enigma machine, and Lorenz cipher system at Bletchley…
Computer History Museum
The Computer History Museum, located in Mountain View, California, is a major museum dedicated to preserving and presenting the history of computing and its impact on society. It houses extensive…
Computer History Simulation Project
SimH is an open-source project providing highly portable simulators for historically significant computer systems, including DEC PDP and VAX machines, IBM systems, Data General, HP, Honeywell, and…
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…
Computing in Japan
A resource guide compiled by Chigusa Kita for SIGCIS (Special Interest Group for Computers, Information, and Society) listing institutions and online sources documenting the history of computing in…
CPU Shack Museum
CPU Shack Museum is an online museum documenting the history of microprocessors, with a collection of over 20,000 CPUs from more than 150 manufacturers plus a large EPROM collection. The site…
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.
European Museum on Computer Science and Technology
International Charity Foundation for History and Development of Computer Science and Technique (ICFCST) in Kyiv, Ukraine, featuring virtual exhibits on computing history and pioneers.
History of Computing in the UK: A Resource Guide
This is a bibliographic resource guide compiled by James Sumner for SIGCIS, the Special Interest Group for Computers, Information, and Society, focused on the history of computing in the United…
Hobbes' Internet Timeline 10.1
Hobbes' Internet Timeline is a detailed, year-by-year chronology of the Internet's development compiled by Robert H. Zakon, tracing events from the 1957 launch of Sputnik and the creation of ARPA…
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…
IPSJ Computer Museum
IPSJ Computer Museum is an online museum maintained by the Information Processing Society of Japan documenting the history of computing in Japan. It features virtual exhibits on historical Japanese…
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,…
LEO Computers Society
The LEO Computers Society is a charitable organisation founded as a reunion society for former employees of LEO Computers, dedicated to preserving, protecting, and promoting the heritage of the LEO…
Multiplexed Information and Computing Service
Multicians.org is a volunteer-run archive documenting the history of the Multics time-sharing operating system, contributed to by former Multics developers and users. It hosts hundreds of HTML pages,…
Oughtred Society
Oughtred Society, an international organization dedicated to the preservation and history of slide rules and other historical calculating instruments.
Plato History
PLATO History is a blog run by author Brian Dear, documenting the PLATO computer-based education system developed at the University of Illinois beginning in 1960. It features posts on PLATO's history…
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…
Russian translation of Elements of Programming
Dusty Decks is Paul McJones's personal research site preserving historic software and documenting the history of programming languages and software engineering, including detailed accounts of…
Russian Virtual Computer Museum
The Russian Virtual Computer Museum is an online archive documenting the history of computing in Russia and the Soviet Union, founded by Eduard Proydakov and Leonid Teplickii and maintained with…
S-1 Supercomputer (1975-1988)
Mark Smotherman's detailed historical account of the S-1 supercomputer project (1975-1988), led by Lowell Wood at Lawrence Livermore National Lab and largely designed by Stanford graduate students…
Society for the History of Technology
The Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) is an international learned society devoted to the study of the history of technology. It offers membership, scholarly engagement opportunities, and…
Southwest Museum of Engineering, Communications and Computation
SMECC is a privately funded museum based in Glendale, Arizona, run by a small volunteer/archivist staff, preserving artifacts and documents related to engineering, communications, broadcasting, and…
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…
Timeline: History of Visual Effects VFX, Computer Graphics, CGI, Computer Animation
A detailed timeline database of the history of visual effects, computer graphics, CGI, and computer animation, compiled by Barbara Flueckiger, a film studies professor at the University of Zurich,…