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This website was originally created in 1999 to support the historiography of programming languages and software engineering. Supported by a multi-year grant from the Alfred E. Sloan Foundation, the original site was part of the HotNet Project which provided funding to universities to create web sites to support the historiography of various technologies. The Sloan Page contains a full explanation of the project at American University and contains a list of the other Sloan supported projects and their URLs. When the original grant period ended in December 2000, the Museum requested that it continue to explore using the web to promote the history of technology more directly. The first new project is intended to provide support to individuals trying to teach the history of computing. These pages contain a syllabus for Dr. Bergin’s course, CSIS 550, lecture notes, and references. In addition, sample student projects will be posted at the end of the Spring semester. The lecture notes are in the form of PowerPoint slides. The second new project is an attempt to provide support to the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, an archival journal devoted to preserving materials and memories about the history of computing. Numerous organizations are experimenting with on-line methods of collaboration and these pages will be used to host forums on specific articles, a forum for reader feedback, and also allow members of the editorial board to collaborate on projects to improve the management of the journal, including experiments with the administration of the peer-review process.
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