New Member of the IT History Society Board of Directors

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The IT History Society and the history of computing mostly has dealt with the hardware and software eras of computing history, With the addition of Brewster Kahle to our Board, we are all becoming more aware of important new chapter of IT history, the Internet, networking, and cloud computing.

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) May 25, 2009

The IT History Society (http://www.IThistory.org) is pleased to announce that Brewster Kahle has joined as a member of its Board of Directors. Mr. Kahle will be joining existing board members Gideon Gartner who is founder of the Gartner Group, James Cortada of IBM, Peter Cunningham of INPUT, William H. Murray, formally with Verizon, Ted Withington of Arthur D. Little, and Jeffery Stein of Peyton Investments, Inc.

Brewster Kahle studied under Danny Hillis and Marvin Minksy while at MIT. Brewster was an early member of the Thinking Machines where he invented the WAIS system and later founded WAIS, Inc. which was sold to AOL. After WAIS, he created Alexa Internet which was sold to Amazon.com. Currently Mr. Kahle is the founder and Digital Librarian of the Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org), one of the largest digital library in the world.

"The IT History Society and the history of computing mostly has dealt with the hardware and software eras of computing history, With the addition of Brewster Kahle to our Board, we are all becoming more aware of important new chapter of IT history, the Internet, networking, and cloud computing." said Jeffery D. Stein, Chairman of the Board., "we are thrilled to have Brewster's participation on our board".

About ITHS:
The growing rooster of the IT History Society, now standing at 500 members, includes Caltech, Agilent, ACM History Committee, Applied Materials, Computer Conservation Society, Deutsches Museum, Hewlett Packard, IBM, INPUT, INTEL, The Internet Archive, Microsoft, the Smithsonian Institution, Symantec, Center for Technology Innovation, Charles Babbage Institute, Computer History Museum, IEEE History Center, Mid-Atlantic Retro Computing Hobbyists, U.K. National Archive for the History of Computing. Hans Nixdorf Museum, MIT, and the Stanford Silicon Valley Archives are some of the members.

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.

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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