Welcome to the Information Technology Corporate Histories Collection

The success of this project depends on the help of many volunteers. We are very grateful to all of them for their commitment to preserving for the future the history of these companies which were part of an industry that transformed the way people worked, played and communicated every day of their lives.

Company Contributors:

Thank you to the volunteers who are contributing their knowledge of what happened, when and why in the companies they founded and worked for. The information in the Corporate Histories database exists only because of their efforts.

Historians:

Thank you to the professional historians support this project by providing their insight and expertise to help insure that the information we are collecting will be useful to historical researchers:

	Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
	David K. Allison, National Museum of American History
	Bill Aspray, Indiana University
	Tim Bergin (retired)
	Glenn Bugos, The Prologue Group
	Martin Campbell-Kelly, University of Warwick
	Paul Ceruzzi, National Air and Space Museum
	Jim Cortada, IBM
	Nathan Ensmenger, University of Pennsylvania
	David Grier, George Washington University / Annals of the History of Computing
	Tom Haigh, University of Wisconsin
	Michael Mahoney, Princeton University
	Dag Spicer, Computer History Museum
	Mike Williams, Computer History Museum
	Jeff Yost, Charles Babbage Institute

Consultants:

Thank you to Lisa Kimball, Executive Producer, Group Jazz, for sharing her expertise in online group interaction.

Thank you to Dan Cohen, Roy Rosenzweig and Tom Scheinfeldt of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University for sharing their expertise in using the Internet to collect historical information.

Management Advisory Council:

Thank you to the members of the Management Advisory Council who contribute their management expertise and industry knowledge to the project:

	Jim Cortada, Charles Babbage Foundation Chair
	Burt Grad, former President of the Software History Center
	Len Shustek, Computer History Museum Chair
	John Toole, Computer History Museum Executive Director and CEO (ex officio)

Computer History Museum Staff:

Thank you to CHM staff members who support the project through supervision of CHM staff members assigned to the project:

	Mike Falarski, VP of Operations and Facilities
	Kirsten Tashev, VP of Collections and Exhibitions
	Mike Walton, Director of IT

Partners in Developing the Proposal

The proposal to the Sloan Foundation which resulted in the grant supporting this project was jointly developed by the Charles Babbage Foundation, the Computer History Museum, and the Software History Center, which was acquired by the Computer History Museum on January 1, 2005. Many thanks to these organizations for their support of the Information Technology Corporate Histories Project and their ongoing commitment to the preservation of information technology history.