http://www.cbi.umn.edu/newsletter.html Charles Babbage Institute Newsletter en-us Tues, 2 April 2013 09:50:00 +0000 http://www.cbi.umn.edu/newsletter/article1 - Copy.html With the passing of Erwin Tomash on December 10, 2012, the computer history world lost one of its oldest, strongest, and most foresighted supporters. As Jeffrey Yost makes clear in his biographical article, Erwin had a singularly lengthy and profound impact on our field... Tues, 2 April 2013 10:50:00 http://www.cbi.umn.edu/newsletter/article1.html http://www.cbi.umn.edu/newsletter/article2 - Copy.html Computer industry pioneer and visionary co-founder (with his wife Adelle Tomash) of the Charles Babbage Foundation (CBF) and the Charles Babbage Institute (CBI), Erwin Tomash passed away on December 10, 2012... Tues, 2 April 2013 10:50:00 http://www.cbi.umn.edu/newsletter/article3 - Copy.html The Charles Babbage Institute is pleased to welcome James W. “Jim” Cortada to a new position as Senior Research Fellow.... Tues, 2 April 2013 10:50:00 http://www.cbi.umn.edu/newsletter/article4 - Copy.html Joy Marie Lisi Rankin, a doctoral candidate in History at Yale University, is the Charles Babbage Institute’s 2013-2014 Adelle and Erwin Tomash Fellow... Tues, 2 April 2013 10:50:00 http://www.cbi.umn.edu/newsletter/article5 - Copy.html In the Fall 2012 CBI Newsletter, I began an exploration of CBI’s formative years. In that issue I provided some background to CBI’s history, from its founding to the selection of the University of Minnesota as its permanent home in 1980... Tues, 2 April 2013 10:50:00 http://www.cbi.umn.edu/newsletter/article6 - Copy.html Books, Cataloging, Visibility, and Access While CBI has long been known for the strength of its archival collections... Tues, 2 April 2013 10:50:00 http://www.cbi.umn.edu/newsletter/article7 - Copy.html The Charles Babbage Institute awarded four Arthur L. Norberg Travel Grants for 2013. The recipients are... Tues, 2 April 2013 10:50:00 http://www.cbi.umn.edu/newsletter/article8 - Copy.html It’s increasingly easy for us to see the potential in amateur expertise, something that may have seemed oxymoronic even a few years ago. When we survey the many corporate-sponsored hack-a-thons, urban makerspaces, and do-it-yourself meet-up groups around the country... Tues, 2 April 2013 10:50:00 http://www.cbi.umn.edu/newsletter/article9 - Copy.html The Charles Babbage Institute’s archival collection includes an overview and summary of United States patents obtained for information technology in the early years of the computer industry, the period prior to the mid-1970s... Tues, 2 April 2013 10:50:00 http://www.cbi.umn.edu/newsletter/article10 - Copy.html I came to CBI because of the mail. I study the ways in which the literature of the 1960s and 1970s negotiates the computer and especially the network... Tues, 2 April 2013 10:50:00 http://www.cbi.umn.edu/newsletter/article11 - Copy.html SRI International scientist and noted computer security pioneer Peter Neumann was quoted last year in the New York Time’s article “Killing the Computer to Save It,” that he has... Tues, 2 April 2013 10:50:00 http://www.cbi.umn.edu/newsletter/article12 - Copy.html Burgun, Keith. Game Design Theory: A New Philosophy for Understanding Games (A.K. Peters/CRC Press, 2013). Campbell-Kelly, Martin. “The RDBMS Industry: A Northern California Perspective.” IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 34:4... Tues, 2 April 2013 10:50:00 http://www.cbi.umn.edu/newsletter/article13 - Copy.html In the Fall 2012 CBI Newsletter we invited readers to propose another historically accurate yet “entertaining and lively” caption for a somewhat unusual photograph... Tues, 2 April 2013 10:50:00