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Published on: 2/2/2003
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The Computing History Museum at American University is the result of years of artifact collecting by Dr. Thomas J. (Tim) Bergin of the Computer Science and Information Systems Department.In 1995, Dr. Bergin served as Chair of the History Track for the Association for Computer Machinery's 1996 Annual Computer Science Conference.This Conference celebrated "50 Years of Computing."As part of this effort, he was asked to prepare an exhibit of artifacts to compliment a photographic exhibit prepared by Expert Events Inc.Following this, Dr. Bergin prepared six other exhibits of artifacts at other professional conferences and at the Bender Library.
In the fall of 1999, Dr. Bergin was contacted by Neal McCristy who was the editor of Yesterday's Office, an on-line periodical which can be found at www.yesterdaysoffice.com.
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An extension in 2000, allowed us to build an expanded website to support (1) teaching the history of computing, and (2) the editorial board of the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, of which Dr. Bergin is the present Editor-in-Chief.