Friends of CBI

2008 Friends of CBI

Membership

The Charles Babbage Institute (CBI) is the only academic research center dedicated to the history of information technology. In addition to publishing the CBI Newsletter, CBI staff conduct historical research to identify, interpret and preserve significant episodes in the history of information technology and its impact on society. CBI also seeks important collections of documents relating to the history of computing, and conducts interviews with key individuals in the development of computers and information technology.

Support Collections

CBI's large collection of historical materials provides the raw material of IT's history. CBI collections are used by researchers from around the world. In addition to the records of computer scientists, industrial organizations, and professional associations, it includes more than 100,000 images and interviews with over 300 computer pioneers. CBI has led the development of archival methods in the field, encouraging its documentation in industry and academe and publishing the results of national surveys and methodological research in the study of large high-technology firms. It is also investigating methods of archiving electronic records, such as web pages, e-mail, and data files. Your donation will help us preserve the records of the field, an ever-growing repository of information of interest to practitioners, business historians, historians of science and technology, journalists, attorneys, and all students of the information age.

Support Training

CBI awards the Adelle and Erwin Tomash Fellowship in the History of Information Processing to advanced graduate students interested in the field. Its recipients have become leading contributors to the history of computing.

Support Publication

CBI has published a collection of rare monographs, conference proceedings, manuals, government reports and books that help document the history of information technology. The CBI Newsletter provides information about current activities in the field, bibliographies, and finding aids, many of which are available on the Internet.

Become a Friend

You can join others who make an important contribution to CBI activities by enrolling in one of the categories listed below. Your contribution is tax exempt in the United States, and your firm may match it. Your support is an important contribution to the understanding of a dynamic field whose history needs to be captured before it is lost. Please join our Friends today.

All Friends receive free subscriptions to Annals of the History of Computing (otherwise only available through IEEE membership) as well as the CBI Newsletter (the latter available at the CBI web site).

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