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Computation History

DH Lab in collaboration with MIT Libraries Distinctive Collections

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    SHASS Affiliated Projects

  • Year

    Spring 2019

MIT recently announced the creation of the Schwarzman College of Computing to begin in 2019, affording the perfect opportunity as humanists to reflect on the history of computation at the Institute in the past. The project mixes archival work in the Institute's Archives and Special Collections with coding skills (including old computer simulation) to create a digital repository of information about how computing was integrated into the history of MIT. By not just focusing on principal figures such as Philip Morse but also the people who maintained the computers and facilitated their use, the Computation History project aims to give a deep and balanced insight into how computation has transformed the Institute, the humanities, and the world.

Two women operating an early computer

Student Team

  • Ife Ademolu-Odeneye

  • Angelica Castillejos

  • Montserrat Garza

  • Meesue Kim

  • Mayowa Songonuga

  • Samantha York

  • Felix Tran

  • Alan Abreu

  • Dina Atia

  • Rikita Bansal

  • Elena Boal

  • Emily Caragay

  • Howard DaCosta

  • Maritza Gallegos

  • Mingfei Duan

  • Assel Ismoldayeva

  • Elsa Itambo

  • Kelsey Merrill

  • Charlotte Minsky

  • Keith Murray

  • Katherine Xu

  • Shobhita Sundaram

  • Isaac Redlon

  • Carol Pan

  • Derek Yen

  • Sophia Zhi

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