Charles Babbage Foundation Names Industry Veteran Luanne Johnson as First Full-time President.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers LOS ALTOS Los Altos (lôs ăl`tōs, lŏs), residential city (1990 pop. 26,303), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1952. There is diversified light manufacturing. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 16, 2002 The Charles Babbage (person) Charles Babbage - The british inventor known to some as the "Father of Computing" for his contributions to the basic design of the computer through his Analytical Engine. Foundation (CBF CBF Chesapeake Bay Foundation CBF Cerebral Blood Flow CBF Cooperative Baptist Fellowship CBF Confederação Brasileira de Futebol CBF Core Binding Factor CBF Chicagoland Bicycle Federation CBF Coronary Blood Flow CBF cubic feet ), a nonprofit corporation nonprofit corporation n. an organization incorporated under state laws and approved by both the state's Secretary of State and its taxing authority as operating for educational, charitable, social, religious, civic or humanitarian purposes. dedicated to preserving the history of information technology, today announced the appointment of Luanne Johnson as the organization's first full-time president. A 35-year industry veteran, Johnson has executive experience at software companies as well as non-profit organizations. She comes to the Foundation from the Software History Center, which she co-founded with Burton Grad in 2000. CBF has two primary goals: to preserve the legacy of the information technology community, and to provide professional and educational resources for industry professionals, students, teachers, media researchers, curators, academics and others. Among others, the Foundation provides financial and advisory support to the Charles Babbage Institute The Charles Babbage Institute (also titled the Center for the History of Information Technology) is a research center at the University of Minnesota specializing in the history of information technology, particularly the post- (CBI CBI abbr. cumulative book index CBI Confederation of British Industry CBI n abbr (= Confederation of British Industry) → C.E.O.E. ), the historical archives and research center of the University of Minnesota (body, education) University of Minnesota - The home of Gopher. http://umn.edu/. Address: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. . To accomplish its goals, the Foundation is building on its successful alliance with CBI and the University of Minnesota, by forming a consortium of established organizations in the IT field, including several that are not academia-based. The Foundation provides inter-organizational coordination of programs too large or beyond the mission statements of individual participants which share the objective of preserving, interpreting and disseminating the history of information technology. CBF Chair James W. Cortada said, "We are extremely fortunate to be able to bring an executive with Luanne's background in the information technology industry on board at this time. Her years of experience running both profit and not-for-profit organizations is exactly what we need, in order to move forward with the CBF Board's ambitious new programs." For the past 25 years, the Foundation has helped support CBI and other projects through generous annual gifts from its trustees, foundations and corporations. Today, CBF carries out its mission through approximately 60 trustees, each of whom is a distinguished member of the IT community. Johnson previously served as president of the Information Technology Association of America See ITAA. (formerly known as ADAPSO See ITAA. ), executive director of the ADAPSO Foundation, and as chairman and president of Argonaut Information Systems, which she founded in 1971. About the Charles Babbage Foundation is a nonprofit California corporation that provides financial and advisory support to the Charles Babbage Institute (CBI) and like organizations dedicated to the preservation, interpretation and dissemination of the history of information technology. The Foundation was founded by Erwin and Adelle Tomash in 1977 and is named after Charles Babbage, the 19th Century father of computer design. Erwin Tomash, founder of Dataproducts Corporation, considers his most important contribution to computer history to be the establishment of this organization for historical research and archival collecting. A full CBF backgrounder is available at www.BabbageFoundation.org. Press contact for photo of Luanne Johnson or other information: Edward Bride, 413-442-7718, Ed@edbride-pr.com |
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