On February 23, 2005, Christie’s in New York will sell Jeremy’s Origins of Cyberspace Library. This library on the history of computing, networking, and telecommunications documents the scientific and technological foundations of the Internet. What makes the Origins of Cyberspace so special is that it goes to the very beginning of the developments that led to the modern digital world.
Among the contents of the Origin of Cyberspace library are key founding documents concerning the following:
? The first programmable computer
? The first electronic computer
? Origins of the stored-program concept
? The first software
? The mathematical theory of communications
? The mathematical theory of data communications
? The origins of neurocomputing
? The origins of artificial intelligence
? Landmarks in the history of mathematical logic as they apply to computing
? The history of the computer business
? The foundation of the world?s first electronic computer company
? The origins of bioinformatics
? The origins of telecommunications