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Guide to the Esther Dyson Papers, 1974-2001 Guide to the Esther Dyson papers Creator: Esther Dyson papers Dates: 1974-2001, bulk 1980-1996 Extent: 36.04 linear feet, 28 record cartons and 3 manuscript boxes Collection number: X2780.2004, X2957.2005 Catalog number: 102733962 Collection processed by: Bo Doub and Kim Hayden, 2015 Finding aid prepared by: Bo Doub, Kim Hayden, and Sara Chabino Lott, 2015 Sponsor: Processing of this collection was made possible through generous funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, administered through the Council on Library and Information Resources' Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives grant. Abstract The Esther Dyson papers contain material that documents Dyson’s career analyzing and creating projections on emerging technologies with her newsletter Release 1.0, and her interest and investment in tech start-ups with her venture capitalism firm EDventure Holdings. The collection dates from 1974 to 2001, with the bulk of material from 1980 to 1996, and includes material related to Dyson’s research on technology companies, products, and topics. Esther Dyson papers X2780.2004, X2957.2005 Administrative Information Access Restrictions Material in box 8, folder 31 contains social security numbers. Researchers must use a redacted photocopy of this restricted material for research until the restriction is lifted at the death of the number holder. Otherwise the collection is open for research. Publication Rights The Computer History Museum (CHM) can only claim physical ownership of the collection. Copyright restrictions may apply and users are responsible for satisfying any claims of the copyright holder. Requests for copying and permission to publish, quote, or reproduce any portion of the Computer History Museum’s collection must be obtained jointly from both the copyright holder (if applicable) and the Computer History Museum as owner of the material. Languages The collection is primarily in English, with a small amount of material in Russian, German, Japanese, French, Hungarian, Romanian, Croatian, and Spanish. Preferred Citation [Identification of Item], [Date], Esther Dyson papers, Lot X[#], Box [#], Folder [#], Catalog [#], Computer History Museum. Note: For this collection the lot number citation will either be X2780.2004 or X2957.2005. Immediate Source of Acquisition Gift of Esther Dyson, 2004. Repository Computer History Museum 1401 N. Shoreline Blvd. Mountain View, CA 94043 USA 650-810-1010 [email protected] www.computerhistory.org Biographical/Historical Note Esther Dyson was born July 14, 1951, in Zürich, Switzerland, to physicist Freeman Dyson and mathematician Verena Huber-Dyson. At age 16, Dyson was accepted to Harvard University, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in economics in 1972. After graduation, she went to work at Forbes as a fact-checker and then reporter from 1974 to 1977. In 1977, she started working as a Wall Street securities analyst for New Court Securities (later called Rothschild) and then Oppenheimer and Company, specializing in high-tech and software companies. In 1982, Dyson began working with Rosen Research firm and its founder, venture capitalist Ben Rosen. The next year, she bought the firm from Rosen, which included the newsletter Rosen’s Computer History Museum 2 Esther Dyson papers X2780.2004, X2957.2005 Electronic News and the annual PC Forum conference. She renamed the firm EDventure Holdings and the newsletter Release 1.0, and began organizing PC Forum, which she helmed each year until its last conference in 2006. After Dyson took it over, PC Forum was considered one of the premier conferences in the technology industry. Dyson published Release 1.0 from 1983 through 2006, with a break in 1985 when she accepted an offer to edit Ziff-Davis’ short-lived newsletter Computer Industry Daily (CID), which only lasted a few months. Release 1.0 focused on Dyson’s analysis and projections of emerging technologies, and the software and technology industries. As a paid-subscription publication, Release 1.0 had a fairly small readership but its subscribers were considered highly influential in the industry. With EDventure Holdings, Dyson has invested in technology start-ups, more recently focusing on health care and aerospace. In the late 1980s, she started investing in Eastern and Central European technology ventures. She was an early investor in Flickr, Evernote, Medstory, and Square, and was active in the sale of Flickr to Yahoo! and Medstory to Microsoft. In the 1990s, Dyson became involved in internet public policy. She chaired several organizations, including the National Information Infrastructure Advisory Council (NIIAC) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), and she was a founding chair of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Dyson’s book, Release 2.0: A Design for Living in the Digital Age, was published in 1997, and she has written columns for the New York Times, ZDNet, Project Syndicate, the Guardian, Content magazine, and other publications. Dyson sold EDventure Holdings, Release 1.0, and PC Forum to CNET Networks in 2004. She left CNET three years later, but has continued to work under the EDventure Holdings name. She also sits on the boards of several companies and nonprofits. Scope and Content of the Collection The Esther Dyson papers are comprised of material Dyson collected from 1974 to 2001, with the bulk of material from 1980 to 1996, related to her work analyzing and making projections on emerging technologies, her industry newsletter Release 1.0, and her venture capitalism firm EDventure Holdings. The largest part of the collection contains material related to various topics, companies, and products that reflect Dyson’s venture capitalism and interest in the computer and software industry. A smaller but significant part of the collection relates to Dyson’s industry-analyst newsletter Release 1.0 and its Eastern European-focused sister publication Rel-EAST, including edited drafts of the newsletters and material used for research on the subjects, products, and companies she wrote about. The smallest part of the collection consists of books, manuals, periodicals, and computer industry conference proceedings and workbooks that are focused on computer technology, software, programming, and development. Arrangement The collection is arranged into 3 series: Series 1, Subject files, 1974-2001, bulk 1980-1996 Series 2, Release 1.0 files, 1979-1996 Series 3, Books, manuals, periodicals, and conference material, 1982-1992 Computer History Museum 3 Esther Dyson papers X2780.2004, X2957.2005 Indexing Terms Dyson, Esther, 1951- EDventure Holdings Inc. Internet governance Release 1.0 Separated Material Software was separated from the main collection (X2957.2005). To view catalog records for separated material, search the CHM catalog at http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/search/. Related Collections at Other Repositories Esther Dyson Papers, 1971-1999; MC 755. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. Collection Contents Series 1, Subject files, 1974-2001, bulk 1980-1996 This series is made up of material Dyson collected on a variety of companies, products, and topics from 1974 to 2001, with the bulk of the series from 1980 to 1996. The material reflects Dyson’s interest and involvement in the software and computer technology industry, venture capitalism, and internet public policy. Press releases, promotional material, handwritten notes, articles, and company financial information make up the bulk of the material. Dyson organized these files alphabetically by using the subject or company name as the folder title, and that filing system has been retained in our arrangement of material. This series is arranged alphabetically by folder title. Series 2, Release 1.0 files, 1979-1996 This series consists of material related to Dyson’s monthly technology industry newsletter Release 1.0. Material dates from 1979 to 1996. Included are Dyson’s drafts of the periodical and working files that contain notes and information about products, companies, and subjects that were used as research for or were featured in the newsletter. A small portion of this series includes material related to her short-lived quarterly newsletter Rel-EAST, which focused on Eastern Europe’s emerging computer technology market. This series is arranged in 2 subseries: Subs eries 2.1, Drafts, 1988-1992 Subseries 2.2, Working files, 1979-1996 Subseries 2.1, Drafts, 1988-1992 This subseries includes drafts of Release 1.0 from 1988 to 1992. The drafts show the development of each issue, with handwritten edits, changes in stories and headlines, and correspondence with others who edited or wrote articles. A few folders include material related to research about subjects for the periodical, including articles, brochures, press releases, and Dyson’s notes. This subseries also includes drafts of the August and October 1991 issues of Dyson’s quarterly Eastern European-focused newsletter Rel-EAST. This subseries is arranged chronologically. Subseries 2.2, Working files, 1979-1996 This subseries includes material related to products, subjects, and companies researched for or written about in Release 1.0. Material dates from 1979 to 1996. The majority of material consists of computer systems and software company brochures, press releases, advertisements, corporate overviews, and financial information; reports Computer History Museum 4 Esther Dyson papers X2780.2004, X2957.2005 and articles related to computer technology; and Dyson’s handwritten
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