Collection is open for research; access requires at least 48 hours advance notice. Because of the nature of certain archival formats, including digital and audio-visual materials, access will require additional advanced notice. Copies of digital files may be provided for use in the SCRC Reading Room upon request.
This collection contains materials relating to Project Eos at North Carolina State University. Iowa State University (Project Vincent) and NC State University (Project Eos) adopted the distributed computing technologies of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) Athena Project and Carnegie Mellon University's Project Andrew in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Dr. Ellen McDaniel worked at North Carolina State University in the College of Engineering Information Technology and Engineering Computer Services (ITECS, formerly Engineering Computer Operation, ECO) unit from August 1991 until April 2017 (at retirement).
Dr. Ellen McDaniel worked at North Carolina State University in the College of Engineering Information Technology and Engineering Computer Services (ITECS, formerly Engineering Computer Operations, ECO) unit from August 1991 until April 2017 (at retirement).
This collection contains materials relating to Project EOS at North Carolina State University. Iowa State (Project Vincent) and NC State University (Project Eos) adopted the distributed computing technologies of the MIT Athena Project and Carnegie-Mellon's Project Andrew in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Former Vice Provost Billy Willis as well as Thomas Miller headed up the Eos project at NC State University.
The North Carolina State University College of Engineering, Information Technology and Engineering Computer Services (ITECS) provides academic computing for faculty and students as well as administrative computing for college and department administrators in the College of Engineering. ITECS maintains the Eos computer environment. Eos, launched in 1989, supports the College of Engineering with high-end workstation labs, engineering applications, and services for sharing technology resources across departments and programs. In 1996, Eos merged with Unity, the campus-wide computing system.
This collection is arranged in the order received.
The nature of the NC State University Libraries' Special Collections means that copyright or other information about restrictions may be difficult or even impossible to determine despite reasonable efforts. The NC State University Libraries claims only physical ownership of most Special Collections materials.
The materials from our collections are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to U.S. Copyright law. The user must assume full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Any materials used for academic research or otherwise should be fully credited with the source.
This collection may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations. Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which North Carolina State University assumes no responsibility.
[Identification of item], Ellen McDaniel Collection of Project Athena and Project Vincent Manuals and Other Materials, MC 00628, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC
Gift of Margaret Hudacko, 2017 (Accession no. 2017.0167)
Processed by: Peter Raia and Gwynn Thayer, July 2017; machine-readable finding aid created by Gwynn Thayer, August 2017.
Collection is open for research; access requires at least 48 hours advance notice. Because of the nature of certain archival formats, including digital and audio-visual materials, access will require additional advanced notice. Copies of digital files may be provided for use in the SCRC Reading Room upon request.
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[Identification of item], Ellen McDaniel Collection of Project Athena and Project Vincent Manuals and Other Materials, MC 00628, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC
The nature of the NC State University Libraries' Special Collections means that copyright or other information about restrictions may be difficult or even impossible to determine despite reasonable efforts. The NC State University Libraries claims only physical ownership of most Special Collections materials.
The materials from our collections are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to U.S. Copyright law. The user must assume full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Any materials used for academic research or otherwise should be fully credited with the source.
This collection may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations. Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which North Carolina State University assumes no responsibility.