Present at the ceremony were alumni of the movement, alumni of the movement, UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert M. Berdahl, and alumnus Stephen M. Silberstein, whose gift funded the new space at the James K. Moffitt Undergraduate Library. Silberstein attended UC Berkeley before the Free Speech Movement and served as a University Library computer systems analyst for 10 years before co-founding his own company, Innovative Interfaces. The Emeryville-based company develops automated systems for libraries, including more than 1,000 college and university libraries around the world. The Townsend Center for the Humanities is sponsoring a forum on 'publishing' scholarly work, and on the broader framework of 'revolutionary' moments in communication. He will speak at SJSU on Wednesday, February 16.
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Short life spans of computer software, hardware, and digital formats threaten long-term storage of vital business and institutional data. Census records, medical files, and documentation of nuclear and toxic waste storage have already been lost or are in danger of being lost. Information preservation problems have important implications for digital libraries, institutional records, and government documents. Jeff Rothenberg is Senior Computer Scientist, RAND Corporation. The engineering building is building number 31 on the map.