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Guide to the Stanford University, ACME Project, Records
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  • Overview
  • Administrative Information
  • Biographical/Historical Sketch
  • Description of the Collection
  • Access Terms

  • Overview

    Call Number: SC0236
    Creator: Lederberg, Joshua
    Title: Stanford University, ACME Project, records
    Dates: 1961-1973
    Physical Description: 6 Linear feet
    Summary: 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.
    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

    Transferred by Professor Joshua Lederberg, 1979.

    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, ACME Project, Records (SC0235). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

    Biographical/Historical Sketch

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

    Description of the Collection

    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.

    Access Terms

    Lederberg, Joshua
    Stanford University. Advanced Computer Medical Experiments project.
    Stanford University. Computation Center.
    Wiederhold, Gio.
    Medicine--Data processing.