Guide to the Hewitt D. Crane papers

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Guide to the Hewitt D. Crane papers

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Writings, Series 1, Bulk, 1960-1990 1959-2005

Series Scope and Content

This series contains technical papers, correspondence, and personal narratives written by Crane. Most of the papers in this series, authored by Crane during his long career at SRI International, cover engineering topics including all-magnetic computing systems, eye tracking technologies, optical character recognition, auditory neuroscience, and alternative energy. Also included in this series are correspondence and clippings from articles sent between Crane and various individuals, which Crane arranged alphabetically. Correspondents with last names starting with letters J through Z are included, but letters A through I were not part of the donation. Lastly, this series contains autobiographical narratives and the history of a vineyard in Cupertino called Ridge Vineyard, which was co-owned by Crane. Of particular interest in this series is a technical paper co-written by Crane, David R. Bennion, and Douglas Engelbart titled, “A Bibliographical Sketch of All-Magnetic Logic Schemes.” This series is arranged alphabetically by title.

102734090 A Cubic Mile of Oil manuscript and notes 1989-2006

102734097 Beyond the Seventh Synapse: The Neural Marketplace of the Mind 1978-1988

102734093 Biographical information 1962; 1981; 2007

102734101 Bubbles, balloons, capillaries, and alveoli 1959-2004

102734089 Correspondence and clippings ca. 1966-2002

102734088 Hearing research, acoustics, and auditory neuroscience 1960-1996

102734092 Magnetic logic 1959-2004

102734099 Neural theory 1964-1992

102734102 Neuristor logic 1960-1986

102734098 Pattern and optical character recognition 1973-1991

102734096 Purkinje eyetracker 1959-2005; bulk 1978-1983

102734095 Ridge Vineyard 1993

102734100 Sociology, alternative energy, eye tracking, auditory neuroscience, and Fibonacci numbers 1976-2001

102734087 Speech recognition ca. 1985-1996

SRI proposals and contracts, Series 2, 1972-1982

Series Scope and Content

This series contains materials that document SRI International’s contracted projects, product development proposals, proposals to prospective clients, grant applications and grant proposals, and legal agreements from 1972 through 1982. A large part of the series deals with handwriting recognition systems developed by Crane, including documentation on a licensing agreement with Tymshare and contracted projects with the U.S. Navy, Sandia Laboratories, and the National Bureau of Standards. Also included are papers on construction of the eye tracker that Crane developed, an application for a National Science Foundation grant, and product proposals for the gait plate -- a personal identification system based on a person’s gait -- and a probe created to measure three-dimensional force. This series is arranged alphabetically by folder title.

102734107 Eyetracker construction 1980

102734108 Grant correspondence 1980

102734103 National Bureau of Standards contracts 1975-1977

102734109 National Science Foundation grant records 1972-1978

102734105 Office of Naval Research contracts 1979-1980

102734110 Product and client proposals 1980-1982

102734104 Sandia contracts 1975-1978

102734111 Tymshare handwriting verification system licensing agreement 1976

102734106 U.S. Navy contracts 1975-1977

102734112 Visual Science Foundation limited partnership agreement 1980-1981

Collection Contents

Writings,

SRI proposals and contracts,