Stanford University, ACME Project, records, 1961-1973

Collection context

Summary

Creators:
Lederberg, Joshua
Abstract:
Collection consists of files relating to the ACME (Advanced Computer Medical Experiments) Project at Stanford, use of computers, and the establishment of a computer center at Stanford. Included are correspondence (including some by Gio Wiederhold), committee records, budget materials, grant files, and publications.
Extent:
6 Linear feet
Language:
The materials are in English .

Background

Scope and content:

Collection consists of files relating to the ACME (Advanced Computer Medical Experiments) Project at Stanford, use of computers, and the establishment of a computer center at Stanford. Included are correspondence (including some by Gio Wiederhold), committee records, budget materials, grant files, and publications.

Biographical / historical:

Professor of Genetics at Stanford Medical School (1959-1978). Lederberg received a Nobel prize in 1958 and became president of Rockefeller Univeristy in 1978.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Location of this collection:
Stanford University Archives, Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064, US
Contact:
(650) 725-1022