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EQS Presentation - Documenting the Information Age
May 28, 2008 04:27 PM | GeneralTom Coffee, Software Development Specialist
Documenting the Information Age: The Charles Babbage Institute and the Expanding History of Computing
This presentation was given by R. Arvid Nelson of the Charles Babbage Institute, CBI. He presented what resources the CBI has to offer. They have a large amount of space in the “caves” under the U of M campus for their archives. They feature items from Control Data Center (of MN), over 100,000 photographs from 1886 to 1986, a Wiki for CDC retirees, Gertrude Blanch papers, ACM documents, Mark P. McCahill & the Gopher protocol, and much more.
This was fascinating for the historian in me, and the computer geek in me. Also, CBI is using Meebo on their blog site, and on their main site, so patrons can “talk” with an archivist live online. This was interesting because I recently discussed Meebo at the last Technology Users Group meeting. I had a short chat with the archivist via Meebo and asked for her thoughts on it. It sounded like her experience with it was very useful. Very stimulating presentation all in all, but I’m a history geek, and programming geek, lol. Thanks for reading. Take care.
