Results for "Computer games -- History"
Clean Sweep in the New Year: Organizing Digital Photos
- Date: January 4, 2011
- Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
- Blog Post
Wait. Did That Really Happen? Snake Smashin’
- Date: April 4, 2019
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: Explore what happened in 1969 when a man brought a hatchet and butcher knife to Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History to attack a display of snakes.
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 14-107, National Museum of American History (U.S.) Division of Science, Medicine, and Society, Exhibition Records, 1961-2002
- Date: 1961 1961-2002
- Creator: National Museum of American History. Division of Science, Medicine and Society
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Finding Aid
SIA RU000332, National Museum of American History (U.S.) Division of Physical Sciences and Mathematics, Records, 1956-1988 and undated
- Date: 1956 1956-1988 1956-1988 and undated
- Creator: National Museum of American History. Division of Physical Sciences and Mathematics
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Blog Post
Brave New Museum
- Date: March 11, 2010
- Description: Computer science researchers at the University of Washington and Cornell University have announced a new system of powerful graphics algorithms that will create three-dimensional renderings of buildings, neighborhoods, and potentially even entire cities. Fittingly the inventors went for the gold and named the system PhotoCity. Like its precursor, Microsoft’s Photosynth, the
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 00-001, National Museum of American History (U.S.) Department of the History of Science and Technology, Exhibition Records, c. 1979-1990, and undated
- Date: 1979 1979-1990 c 1979-1990, and undated
- Creator: National Museum of American History. Department of the History of Science and Technology
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Webpage
Preservation Strategies for Born-Digital Materials
- Date: April 26, 2017
- Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives' preservation strategies for its born-digital collections, including documents and spreadsheets, images, audio, video, text, email, databases, software, and website and social media records.
- Blog Post
A New Look at Home Movies
- Date: May 31, 2010
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="240" caption="I have no hours in the day to watch TV/games. Don't let life go by!!, by National Media Museum, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] From 2002-2005, a unique archive of video tapes was compiled by the Center on Everyday Lives of Families (CELF) at UCLA, with the goal of studying a relatively new social
- Blog Post
But Will You Love Me Tomorrow?
- Date: May 23, 2011
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="Beauty is forever, by Just Warr, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0 Generic."][/caption] At THE BIGGER PICTURE, we often write about the challenges of maintaining the data in digital archives. But a recent article bundled in the informative daily arts newsletter compiled by Jeff Weiss—you can subscribe by sending a request
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SIA Acc. 05-084, National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Office of Exhibits, Exhibition Records, 1959-1999
- Date: 1959 1959-1999
- Creator: National Museum of Natural History. Office of Exhibits
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Finding Aid
SIA RU009599, David Challinor Oral History Intervews, 1998-1999
- Date: 1998 1998-1999
- Creator: Challinor, David, interviewee
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 13-217, National Museum of American History (U.S.) Division of Work and Industry, Exhibition Records, 1925-2010
- Date: 1925 1925-2010
- Creator: National Museum of American History. Division of Work and Industry
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives