Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility Records, 1983-1991. Finding Aid.

Summary Information

Title: Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility records
Dates: 1983-1991
Creator: Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
Extent: 2 boxes (0.75 cubic feet)
Language: English
Collection Number: CBI 107
Abstract:

Contains annual reports, information sheets on CPSR positions on issues, the inaugural issue of the CPSR forum, several issues of the CPSR newsletter, CPSR presentations, and information on the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI).

Repository: University of Minnesota Libraries. Charles Babbage Institute

Access and Use

Acquisition Information:

Records donated by Severo Ornstein in 1994.

Access Restrictions:

Access to the collection is unrestricted.

Copyright:

The Charles Babbage Institute holds the copyright to all materials in the collection, except for items covered by a prior copyright (such as published materials). Researchers may quote from the collection under the fair use provisions of the copyright law (Title 17, U.S. Code).

Preferred Citation:

Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility Records (CBI 107), Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

Historical Note

Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR) began as a discussion group concerned with the increasing threat of nuclear war on a computer message network at a research center in Palo Alto, California in October 1981. An organizational meeting was held in June 1982, and CPSR was incorporated in March 1983. CPSR's first annual report states "our primary concern is the increasing role that computers play in the arms race and the ways in which their misuse might increase the threat of nuclear war."

Collection Scope and Content Note

This collection contains annual reports, information sheets on CPSR positions on issues, the inaugural issue of the CPSR forum, several issues of the CPSR newsletter, CPSR presentations, and information on the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), also known as the "Star Wars defense."

Subject Terms

Index Terms

• This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the University of Minnesota Libraries. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.
• Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility.
• Computer industry -- Societies, etc.
• Electronic data processing -- Societies, etc.
• Strategic Defense Initiative -- Protest movements.
• Military art and science -- Data processing -- Protest movements.
• Nuclear warfare.

Box and Folder List

Location		Title
Box 1		Annual reports, 1983-1990 Box 1, Folder 1
		CPSR forum, 1982 Box 1, Folder 2
		Information sheets, 1984-1988 Box 1, Folder 3
		CPSR newsletter, 1990-1991 Box 1, Folder 4
		Presentations, 1984-1985 Box 1, Folder 5
		"Star Wars", 1985-1985 Box 1, Folder 6
		John Perry Darlow, 1985-1990 Box 1, Folder 7
		CPSR Newsletters, Summer 1983 - Fall 1986 Box 2, Folder 1
		CPSR Newsletters, Winter 1987 - Fall 1988 Box 2, Folder 2
		CPSR Newsletters, Winter 1989 - Fall 1990 Box 2, Folder 3
		CPSR Newsletters, 1994 Box 2, Folder 4