IT History Society Membership Continues to Grow

The IT History Society membership grows beyond 500 members

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Quote startWe see this continuing increase in membership as a validation of our mission to preserve the history of the information technology. This technology has been and continues to be a shaping force on the modern world, and understanding its past will help us to improve its present and future uses.Quote end

San Francisco (PRWEB) November 17, 2008

The IT History Society (http://www.IThistory.org) has grown to more than 500 members since the announcement of its redirection in Washington DC at its launch on October 21, 2007. The IT History Society, formerly known as the Charles Babbage Foundation, was created with the goal of enhancing and expanding works concerning the history of Information Technology, and demonstrating the value of IT history to the understanding and improvement of our world.

"We are pleased with the reception from the information technology sector," said Jeffery D. Stein, Chairman of the Board. "We see this continuing increase in membership as a validation of our mission to preserve the history of the information technology. This technology has been and continues to be a shaping force on the modern world, and understanding its past will help us to improve its present and future uses."

Some of the recent members joining the growing rooster of the IT History Society are ACM History Committee, Agilent, Applied Materials, Caltech, Computer Conservation Society, Deutsches Museum, Hewlett Packard, IBM, INPUT, INTEL, The Internet Archive, Microsoft, the Smithsonian Institution, and Symantec.

The membership presently includes more than 250 historians and archivists, as well as institutions such as the Center for Technology Innovation, Charles Babbage Institute, Computer History Museum, IEEE History Center, Mid-Atlantic Retro Computing Hobbyists, and the U.K. National Archive for the History of Computing.

The IT History Society assists in the collaboration of like-minded institutions and individuals to expand the reach of historical and archival activities while at the same time communicating to the private sector the value of preserving their history and heritage for generations to come.

About ITHS

The IT History Society exists to enhance and expand works concerning the history of Information Technology and to demonstrate the value of IT history to the understanding and improvement of our present and future world.

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