Overview
Administrative Information
Biographical/Historical note
Description of the Collection
Access Terms
Overview
Call Number: SC0394
Creator:
Stanford University. Computer Science Department.
Title: Stanford University, Department of Computer Science, records
Dates: 1968-2007
Physical Description:
3.75 Linear feet
Summary: Reports and memoranda concerning departmental rap sessions, 1968-69; memoranda, reports, diagrams, papers, and other materials,
1976-1981, pertaining to development of the SUN workstation, a network-based personal computer system designed at Stanford
University; report on the Department, 1970; listing of personnel (staff, faculty, and students), 1971; files of Carolyn Tajnai,
Director of the Stanford Computer Form, pertaining to Silicon Valley history and F. E. Terman, 1963-2007; class materials
(syllabi, handouts, exams), 1962-84; reports on research in the department, 1967-69; Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Operating Notes, numbers 1-70 (incomplete set); "The Future of Computer Science at Stanford," by Forsythe, Herriot, and Miller,
Feb. 1967; and Robert Floyd "Notes toward a revised formula ALGOL," 1966.
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc
Administrative Information
Provenance
Administrative transfer, 1990-1999
Information about Access
This collection is open for research.
Ownership & Copyright
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the
Head of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent
is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission
from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. See: http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv/permissions.html.
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research
and educational purposes.
Cite As
Stanford University, Department of Computer Science, Records (SC0394). Department of Special Collections and University Archives,
Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Associated Materials
Twenty buttons from the Stanford Computer Forum are classed as AM 2008-013 in the Stanford University Archives Museum Collection.
Biographical/Historical note
The Department of Computer Science was established in 1965.
Description of the Collection
Reports and memoranda concerning departmental rap sessions, 1968-69; memoranda, reports, diagrams, papers, and other materials,
1976-1981, pertaining to development of the SUN workstation, a network-based personal computer system designed at Stanford
University; report on the Department, 1970; listing of personnel (staff, faculty, and students), 1971; files of Carolyn Tajnai,
Director of the Stanford Computer Form, pertaining to Silicon Valley history and F. E. Terman, 1963-2007; class materials
(syllabi, handouts, exams), 1962-84; reports on research in the department, 1967-69; Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Operating Notes, numbers 1-70 (incomplete set); "The Future of Computer Science at Stanford," by Forsythe, Herriot, and Miller,
Feb. 1967; and Robert Floyd "Notes toward a revised formula ALGOL," 1966.
Access Terms
Floyd, Robert W.
Forsythe, George E. , (George Elmer), 1917-1972.
Stanford University. Computer Science Department.
Tajnai, Carolyn.
Computer networks.
Ethernet (Local area network system).
Microcomputer workstations.