System Development Foundation (Palo Alto, Calif.)

SDF was created in 1969 as a non-profit funding organization during the transition of the System Development Corporation (SDC) to for-profit status. The SDF Board of Trustees gave its initial grants to non-profit organizations, particularly Cal Tech, U.C. Berkeley, The Rand Corporation, and Stanford University. They backed research primarily in information sciences and the human-machine interface, the areas of expertise of SDC. In the first year SDF funded over $11 million in research; in the next five years it committed itself to $25 million. Recognizing it would terminate its operation in June 1988, funding was stopped for new projects in 1984. In the remaining years they continued to support work already underway.

From the description of System Development Foundation records, 1957-1993. (Stanford University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 122398052

...