About the Project

The Archival History of Computing at MIT 1950–62, project began in November 2018 with an undergraduate team and the staff of the Programs in Digital Humanities at MIT. Every member of the team has contributed to the project's design, development, implementation, and maintenance.

Undergraduates participated by studying the archive, digitizing documents, creating metadata, programming the underlying Django code for the website, writing stories about the archive, and conducting analyses in code and words. These students created all the data visualizations and stories present on this website. Every individual contribution, along with work done in small teams, was integral to this digitization and contextualization of the MIT Computation Center's Archives.

The project would not have been possible without the support, expertise, and guidance of the MIT Libraries' subject liaison librarians and the staff of the Department of Distinctive Collections.

The project is part of the Andrew W. Mellon-funded Programs in Digital Humanities at the MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences Previous projects include a study of Gender in nineteenth-century novels. As part of our commitment to open source, all code created for this project is available on GitHub.