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spotlight: "Origins of Cyberspace" exhibit at MIT
 

Tuesday and Wednesday, February 8 and 9, 9AM to 5PM
The Burndy Library, MIT E56-100, Dibner Building, 38 Memorial Drive


  
  Home - MIT The Origins of Cyberspace: A Library on the History of Computing, Networking & Telecommunications

This library documents the scientific and technological foundations of the Internet. Among the contents of the Origin of Cyberspace library are key founding documents concerning:
  • The first programmable computer, electronic computer, and software
  • The origins of neurocomputing, artificial intelligence, bioinformatics, and telecommunications
  • The mathematical theory of data communications
  • The history of the computer business and the foundation of the world's first electronic computer company
  • The beginnings of electronic computing in the United States and England, and to a lesser extent, in France, Italy, Australia, Germany, Switzerland and Japan
On February 23, the collection will be auctioned by Christie's in New York.

Related links
MIT's Dibner Institute for the history of science and technology
Do I hear 1,000 for the Univac? from Wired magazine
A piece of Net history on the auction block from CNET News
Jeremy Norman and Co., Inc.