Overview
Administrative Information
Biographical/Historical note
Description of the Collection
Access Terms
Overview
Call Number: SC0394
Creator:
Stanford University. Computer Science
Dept.
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
Stanford University Libraries
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: speccollref@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/spc.html
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-
Stanford University. Computer Science Dept.
Tajnai, Carolyn.
Computer networks.
Ethernet (Local area network system).
Microcomputer workstations.