Guide to the SPIRES Retrospectives by the Original Developers SCM0397

Finding aid prepared by Daniel Hartwig

Dept. of Special Collections & University Archives

Stanford University Libraries.

557 Escondido Mall

Stanford, California, 94305

Repository email: speccollref@stanford.edu

April 2011

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Title: SPIRES retrospectives by the original developers

Identifier/Call Number: SCM0397

Contributing Institution: Dept. of Special Collections & University Archives

Language of Material: English

Physical Description: 1.0 optical disc(s) (DVD)

Date: circa 1991

Immediate Source of Acquisition note

Materials were the gift of the Stanford Historical Society, 2010.

Information about Access

Access: Materials are open for research use.

Biographical/Historical note

SPIRES [Stanford Physics Information Retrieval System] was first developed to provide access to preprints of physics research; it then grew to be a broader based data management and retrieval tool, with the acronym meaning Stanford Public Information Retrieval System.

Scope and Contents note

This collection includes a DVD transfer of the original videorecording done by Harley Goes and Bo Parker and a transcript of the interviews recorded. Interviewees include Ed Parker, Allen Veaner, Hank Epstein, John Schroeder, Tom Martin, Dick Guertin, Bill Kiefer, Louise Addis, and Lennie Stovel.

Additonal Extent Statement

1,transcript (21 p.)

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Addis, Louise.

Epstein, Hank.

Guertin, Richard L.

Kiefer, William.

Martin, T. H., ((Thomas H.))

Martin, T. H., (Thomas H.)

Parker, Edwin B.

Schroeder, John.

Stovel, Lennie.

Veaner, Allen B., 1929-

Veaner, Allen B.,, 1929-

Data structures (Computer science)

Project Spires.

Box 1

Videorecording

Physical Description: 1.0 optical disc(s) (DVD)

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