Guide to the Stanford University, Department of Computer Science, Records
Daniel Hartwig
Stanford University. Libraries.
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
October 2010
Copyright © 2015 The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. All rights reserved.
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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.
Original accession
Scope and Content Note
Box 1 of the collection contains several different accessions. The first, accession number 1986-070, consists of reports and
memoranda regarding departmental rap sessions, 1968-1969, which largely dealt with internal issues. The second accession,
number 1990-186, concerns the development of the SUN workstation, a network-based personal computer system, and includes memoranda,
reports, diagrams, papers, and other materials dating from 1976 to 1981. This accession was received as a notebook; the items
have been removed and placed in folders, maintaining the original order. The third accession, number 1991-049, consists of
two items that were part of a larger accession received from the Physics Library.
Box 2 contains accession 2008-105, which appears to have been the files of Carolyn Tajnai, Director of the Stanford Computer
Forum, and pertains to Silicon Valley history and F. E. Terman. Five boxes from accession 1999-102 were added to the collection
in January 2010. They include 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.
Box 1, Folder 1
Dept. of Computer Science, Rap Sessions, 1968-69. Reports and memoranda.
Box 1, Folder 2
SUN WorkStation Hardware Projects: introductory material
Box 1, Folder 6
File: ARPA [SUN,AVB], 1981
Box 1, Folder 7
Data Link Layer Ethernet Interface, Overview and User Manual, 1980
Box 1, Folder 8
The SUN WorkStation Hardware Overview
Box 1, Folder 10
SUN seminar information and minutes, 1980
Box 1, Folder 12
Computer Networking at Stanford; Current Status and Future Plans for Ethernet at Stanford University, 1980. Report by Ralph
E. Gorin.
Box 1, Folder 16
Ethernet: Distributed Packet Switching for Local Computer Networks, 1976. Article by Robert M. Metcalfe and David R. Boggs.
Box 1, Folder 17
Tools for Distributed Computing, 1980. Report by W.I. Nowicki.
Box 1, Folder 18
The SUN WorkStation; A Terminal System for the Stanford University Network, 1980. Draft of report.
Box 1, Folder 19
Perseus: Retrospective on a Portable Operating System, 1982. Report by Willy Zwaenepoel and Keith A. Lantz
Box 1, Folder 20
The Implementation of Perseus as a Guest Level OS on the VAX 11/780, 1981. A report by Linda DeMichiel, Ginger Edighoffer,
and Steve Kille.
Box 1, Folder 21
Memory Sharing in a Distributed Processing Environment, 1980. A report by Jeffrey Mogul.
Box 1, Folder 22
Perseus Disk Driver for IBM 3310 Disk, 1981. A report by R.F. McAllister.
Box 1, Folder 23
Uniform Access to Resources in Perseus, 1981
Box 1, Folder 24
Report on Computer Science Department (memo from G.E. Forsythe to Computer Science Advisory Committee), 1970
Box 1, Folder 25
Personnel listing, 1971 (printout of file S623.PERSONNEL)
Box 2, Folder 1
Caddes, Carolyn, correspondence re her book Portraits of Success, 1985
Box 2, Folder 2
Computer Forum, correspondence of Carolyn Tajnai, 1982-97
Box 2, Folder 4
Photographs, mostly of F.E. Terman with 2 regarding the Varian brothers and their company (most of these are prints of Stanford
News Service images)
Box 2, Folder 5
Research Park, clippings 1986-88
Box 2, Folder 6
SITN – outline of a talk by Kenneth S. Down, 1982, and articles and clippings, 1977-83
Box 2, Folder 7
Tajnai, Carolyn, "Carolyn Tajnai’s Introduction to Computing," ca. 1990
Box 2, Folder 8
Tajnai, Carolyn, "Fred Terman, the Father of Silicon Valley," 1984-85
Box 2, Folder 9
Tajnai, Carolyn, two papers on Stanford and Silicon Valley, 1997, 2007
Box 2, Folder 11
Text of talks by F. E. Terman (photocopies), 1962-73
Box 2, Folder 12
Terman, F. E., articles, clippings, etc., 1963-84
Box 2, Folder 13
Materials on the history of Silicon Valley, 1974-93
Box 2, Folder 14
Magazine sources on the history of Silicon Valley
Accession ARCH-1999-102
Additional material
Box 1, Folder 1
CS 5 course materials, 1962-64
Box 1, Folder 2
Notes for CS 136 and CS 5 by John G. Herriot, Sept. 1964
Box 1, Folder 3
CS 5 course materials, Autumn 1965
Box 1, Folder 4
CS 5 course materials, Winter, Spring and Autumn 1966
Box 1, Folder 5
Notes for CS 136 and CS 5 by John G. Herriot, Sept. 1966
Box 1, Folder 6
CS 136 / CS 5 course materials, Spring 1967
Box 1, Folder 13
CS 101 Computers: Their Nature, Use, and Impact, student papers [no photocopies allowed], spring 1978
Box 1, Folder 14
CS 104, syllabus and assignments, Autumn 1971
Box 1, Folder 16
CS 126 Class notes, September 1966
Box 2, Folder 1
CS 126/136, Exams, 1969-70
Box 2, Folder 2
Information on Stanford’s Systems and Languages: Notes for CS 135, Jan. 1973
Box 2, Folder 3
CS 139 course materials, 1964
Box 2, Folder 4
CS 139 course materials, 1966-67
Box 2, Folder 5
CS 139 course materials, 1970
Box 2, Folder 7
CS 142 class notes, Prof. Gio Wiederhold, Fall 1978 (1 of 2)
Box 2, Folder 8
CS 142 class notes, Prof. Gio Wiederhold, Fall 1978 (2 of 2)
Box 2, Folder 9
CS 142 / EE 285 class notes, winter 1982
Box 2, Folder 10
CS 146 / EE 246 handouts, Fall 1982
Box 2, Folder 11
CS 146 / EE 286 handouts, Winter 1984
Box 2, Folder 12
Readings in Artificial Intelligence, CS/Psych 224, Spring 1975
Box 3, Folder 1
CS 231 course materials, 1965-67
Box 3, Folder 2
CS 237 course materials, 1963-71
Box 3, Folder 4
CS/Linguistics 266, class notes, Winter 1980
Box 3, Folder 5
CS 343 / EE 483 class notes, spring 1981
Box 3, Folder 6
EE/CS 701answers to homework
undated
Box 3, Folder 7
Math 44 Homework Solutions 1984
Box 3, Folder 8
Math 116 solutions to assignments
undated
Box 3, Folder 9
Math 130 Homework Solutions Winter 1984
Box 3, Folder 10
Math 232A Notes Autumn 1980
Box 3, Folder 11
Statistics 110 Past Exams 1964-65
Box 3, Folder 12
The Future of Computer Science at Stanford, prepared by Forsythe, Herriot, and Miller, Feb. 1, 1967
Box 3, Folder 13
Research in the Computer Science Department Stanford University 1967
Box 3, Folder 14
Research in the Computer Science Department Stanford University April 26, 1968 (with remarks to the CS Advisory Committee
by G. Forsythe, April 26, 1968)
Box 3, Folder 15
Research in the Computer Science Department Stanford University, April 21, 1969
Box 3, Folder 16
Artificial Intelligence Project memos, list of, ca. 1968
Box 4, Folder 1
Binder 1: Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Operating Notes #1 - #28
Box 4, Folder 2
Binder 2: Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Operating Notes #29 - #53
Box 4, Folder 3
Binder 3: Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Operating Notes #54 - #70 [incomplete]
Box 4, Folder 4
Computer Printout: Computer Science Library. Index to Uncatalogued Materials, 1967
Box 4, Folder 5
Computer Printout: Computer Science Library. Index to Uncatalogued Materials, 1969
Box 5, Folder 1
George Forsythe: Proposal for renewal contract N00014-67-A-0112-0029 NR 044-211 (1969 and 1970)
Box 5, Folder 2
George Forsythe, Numerical Analysis and Computer Science in Certain European and Soviet Centers, 26 July 1967
Box 5, Folder 3
Robert Floyd, "Notes toward a revised formula ALGOL," July 6, 1966
Box 5, Folder 4
ISIS Demo [edited record for a hypothetical ISIS/0 usage session] 1970