ing project is one of aggregating the locations and content of IT history archival information around

the world to facilitate and encourage IT history research and scholarship.[2][citation needed] This International
Database of Historical and Archival Sites currently consists of 1,663 international information
technology historical and archival collections encompassing over 49.8 million documents.[2] An IT
Hardware database has been added consisting of 12,187 entries, an IT Honor Roll with 1,031
entries, and a Technical Quotes database with over 1,000 entries. These databases are being
added to on a regular basis an IT Software and IT Companies databases will debut soon. ITHS
holds an annual meeting and conference.

Leadership[edit]
The current chairman is Jeffery Stein of Peyton Investments. The Trustees, Historical Advisory
Committee, and Archival Advisory Committee are made up of distinguished individuals who have
created technology, built companies, and recorded IT events as archivists or historians. The Board
of Directors also includes David G. Arscott, Leslie Berlin, James Cortada, Peter
Cunningham, Gideon Gartner, Brewster Kahle, William Hugh Murray, Frederic G.
Withington, George Dyson, Nolan Bushnell, Randy Katz, and Lars Heide.

Membership[edit]
Current membership totals over 700, with fifty percent of the members residing in countries outside
the United States. Memberships are divided into three categories: individual, corporation, and
institution. Membership is free. Corporate and institutional members include California Institute of
Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Computer
History Museum, Deutsches Museum, IEEE History Center, Hewlett-Packard Company, IBM
Corporation, UK National Archive for the History of Computing, Intel, Microsoft Corporation, Stanford
Silicon Valley Archives, Applied Materials, Symantec, Agilent Technologies Foundation, Internet
Archive, History San Jose, FedEx, British Library, Hans Nixdorf Museum, and McKesson
Corporation.

History[edit]
The International Charles Babbage Society was founded in 1978 and operated out of Palo Alto,
California. The following year the American Federation of Information Processing Societies (AFIPS)
became a principal sponsor of the Society, which was renamed the Charles Babbage Institute.
In 1980, the Institute moved to the University of Minnesota, which contracted with the principals of
the Charles Babbage Institute to sponsor and house the Institute. A new entity, the Charles Babbage
Foundation, was created to help support and govern the Institute, in partnership with the University.
In 1989, CBI became an organized research unit of the University.
Around 2000, CBF broadened its mission to support the history of information technology through
other organizations, collaborating, for example, with the Sloan Foundation, Software History Center,
and the Computer History Museum in experimenting with Internet-based archival and historical
research. In 2002, the Charles Babbage Foundation broadened its mission to support the entire IT
history community. In 2007, CBF changed its name to the IT History Society and reworked its
programs to better support the IT history community.

See also[edit]
History of computing hardware
History of operating systems
History of the internet
 References[edit]
1. Jump up^ IT History Societys Databases Continue to Grow, PRWeb, November 19, 2010.
2. ^ Jump up to:a b What's Your Tech

External links[edit]
IT History Society website
CBI website
History of CBI and CBF
Categories:
Organizations established in 2007
Information technology organisations
Organizations based in Minnesota
Historical societies of the United States
History of science organizations
History of computing
International organizations based in the United States