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Clamons, Eric H.
Mathematics, Division of (NMAH, Smithsonian Institution).
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1969-1975
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3 Cubic feet (10 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0311
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This material includes correspondence, handwritten notes, transcripts of speeches, meeting minutes, reports (in draft and final form) of ANSI X3L2 and other committees and international organizations dealing with computer character sets and codes as well as minutes and agendas of their meetings. There are also some clippings of articles from journ...
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Grace Murray Hopper Collection
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Hopper, Grace Murray, 1906-1992
Physical Sciences, Division of (NMAH, Smithsonian Institution).
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1944-1965
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2.5 Cubic feet (7 boxes, 1 map-folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0324
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The material includes technical notes, operating instructions and descriptions relating to projects which Hopper participated in at Harvard during and after World War II and later in the private sector. These projects involved the creation of the Navy's Mark I, II and III "mechanical calculators" (the fore runners of today's computers) and the UNI...
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Shaw, J. Clifford (John Clifford), 1922-1991
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1933-1993
bulk 1950-1971
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20.5 Cubic feet (59 boxes, 4 oversize folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0580
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The John Clifford Shaw papers contain reports, research notes, correspondence, memorandum, and diagrams documenting Shaw's development of one of the earliest list processing languages (IPL) and an early interactive, time sharing program, the JOHNNIAC Open Shop System (JOSS). The collection also contains printed material on the RAND Corporation and the evolution of the artificial intelligence and electronic computer industry in the 1950s and 1960s. In addition there is biographical material documenting Shaw's personal interests, family, and academic career.
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Smithsonian Institution. Office of the Chief Information Officer
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1972-2007, 2011-2015
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6 cu. ft. (6 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 20-001
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records created and maintained by Joseph L. Russo documenting technological developments, strategic planning, and projects in relation to computer technology and the growth of databases and the internet at the Smithsonian Institution. Russo began his Smithsonian career in 1982 as a fisheries biologist for the Un...
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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[ca. 1970s]
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2.18 Cubic feet ((2 records center boxes))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2000.0017
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of the following twenty-two 16mm films relating to the Space Shuttle Enterprise OV-101: 747/F-104 Shuttle Orbiter Launch Simulation; Orbiter/747 Separation (Wind Tunnel);Computer Programmer Graphics; NASA 747 Wake Vortex Tests; Mission Profile - Shuttle Approach and Landing Tests; Space Shuttle Free Flight #4; Space Shuttle...
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Eklund, Jon B.
Soltoff, Roy
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1978-1984
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0.1 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0275
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection includes four 90 minute audio tapes of interviews with Mr. Soltoff covering biographical information, education, work experience and professional career. Also included are: The interviewer's handwritten notes summarizing the interviews; and copies "Notes from Misosys", a publication on computer software edited by Mr. Soltoff.
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Goldstein, Gordon D.
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1948 - 1957
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2 Cubic feet (6 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0554
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Papers relate to Gordon D. Goldstein, a computer engineer and frequent seminar speaker and participant, especially in the fields of linguistics and machine translation.
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Schorer, Clifford, 1966-
Richards, Judith Olch
- Dates:
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2018, June 6-7
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5 Items (sound files (3 hr., 57 min.) Audio, digital, wav)
110 Pages (Transcript)
- Collection ID:
- AAA.schore18
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
An interview with Clifford Schorer conducted 2018 June 6-7, by Judith Olch Richards, for the Archives of American Art and the Center for the History of Collecting in America at the Frick Art Reference Library of The Frick Collection, at the offices of the Archives of American Art in New York, New York.
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SHARE (Association)
Computers, Information and Society, Division of (NMAH, SI).
Dietz, C. P.
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1964-1970
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5 Cubic feet (14 boxes
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- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0498
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Correspondence, abstracts and reports of computer programs, punch cards, Numerical Analysis project reviews, meeting notes, and research papers.
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1987
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2 videotapes (Reference copies). 11 digital .wmv files and .rm files (Reference copies).
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 9533
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
The Smithsonian Videohistory Program, funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation from 1986 until 1992, used video in historical research. Additional collections have been added since the grant project ended. Videohistory uses the video camera as a historical research tool to record moving visual information. Video works best in historical r...