Stanford University, Information Technology Services, records 1960-1985

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Stanford University, Information Technology Services, records 1960-1985

This collection contains the office files from Information Technology Services and its various predecessors, dating from 1960 to 1985. The records include correspondence, minutes, reports, proposals, contracts, budgets, manuals, bulletins, newsletters, conference proceedings, consultants' files, licensing records, computer printouts, and a small number of computer tapes. The records pertain to computer systems used in the University, the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, and the Medical Center as well as other operations of ITS. Persons represented include Michael M. Roberts, Edward E. Shaw, William Yundt, and Colin McLeod.

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Shaw, Edward E.

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Edward E. Shaw, Stanford B.A. in economics 1965, joined the administrative staff of Stanford in the fall of 1965 as a contract administrator in the controller's office. In 1970 he became Assistant to the Vice President for Research, William F. Miller. When Miller was named Vice President and Provost in 1971, Shaw became his Executive Assistant. In 1975 he was named Associate Provost; his later positions included president of the Research Libraries Group, director of the Stanford Center for Infor...

Stanford linear accelerator center

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SVs, VM - UNIX production at SLAC. System reportable Probtrack problems. From the description of Problem reporting and tracking system developed at SLAC, 1981-1996. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754863237 ...

Yundt, William H.

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McLeod, Colin

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Stanford University. Center for Information Processing.

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Stanford University. Center for Information Technology

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Roberts, Michael M.

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Stanford University. Information Technology Services

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Stanford University's use of computer technology for information processing began in March 1953 with the opening of the Stanford Computation Center. In April 1973, the Stanford Center for Information Processing (SCIP) was created, with Michael M. Roberts as deputy director. Its aim was to provide support for research, instruction, operations, and management. The name was later changed to the Center for Information Technology (CIT). In November 1983 four units from CIT (Computer Services, the Dat...

Stanford University. Medical Center

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Stanford University. Computation Center

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