Colin B. Burke - Revision history

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	Publications relating to information history include:		Publications relating to information history include:

			*C-Span Intervew (recording): [https://www.c-span.org/person/colin-burke/41993/ Allied vs. German Cryptology].
	*"History of information science." ''Annual Review of Information Science and Technology''. 41 (2007): 3-53. [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015066021208]		*"History of information science." ''Annual Review of Information Science and Technology''. 41 (2007): 3-53. [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015066021208]
	*''Information and Secrecy: Vannevar Bush, Ultra, and the Other Memex''. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1994.		*''Information and Secrecy: Vannevar Bush, Ultra, and the Other Memex''. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1994.

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	== Further reading ==		== Further reading ==
	*Obituary, ~~mainly~~ family photos. [https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/columbia-md/colin-burke-12070245]		*Obituary, primarily family photos. Dignity Memorial. [https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/columbia-md/colin-burke-12070245]

	== Papers ==		== Papers ==
	Unpublished material is available on his website. [https://userpages.umbc.edu/~burke/]		Unpublished material is available on his website. [https://userpages.umbc.edu/~burke/]

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	'''Colin Bradley Burke''' was born on January 3, 1936. After graduating from San Francisco State College (later San Francisco State University), he spent nearly twenty years as a professional musician. He received a PhD from the University of Washington in St Louis in 1973 with a dissertation on American colleges and their students, 1800-1860. He was for many years on the faculty of the Department of History, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, where he turned his attention to the early history of digital computing.		'''Colin Bradley Burke''' was born on January 3, 1936. After graduating from San Francisco State College (later San Francisco State University), he spent nearly twenty years as a professional musician. He received a PhD from the University of Washington in St Louis in 1973 with a dissertation on American colleges and their students, 1800-1860. He was for many years on the faculty of the Department of History, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, where he turned his attention to the early history of digital computing.

	Burke was a Fulbright Scholar in Warsaw, 1988-1989; Scholar in Residence at the National Security Agency's Center for Cryptologic History, 1991-1992; Eugene Garfield Fellow at the Chemical Heritage Foundation (later Science History Institute) in Philadelphia, 2000–2001; a Research Fellow at the Yale Program on Non-Profit Organizations; and Fellow of the Social Science Research Council. He died on November 6, 2024 ~~in Columbia, Maryland~~.		Burke was a Fulbright Scholar in Warsaw, 1988-1989; Scholar in Residence at the National Security Agency's Center for Cryptologic History, 1991-1992; Eugene Garfield Fellow at the Chemical Heritage Foundation (later Science History Institute) in Philadelphia, 2000–2001; a Research Fellow at the Yale Program on Non-Profit Organizations; and Fellow of the Social Science Research Council. He died on November 6, 2024.

	== Contributions ==		== Contributions ==
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	== Publications ==		== Publications ==
	Burke's publications ~~include~~:		Burke wrote widely on the history of higher education, intelligence and espionage, cryptanalysis, computing, and information services. Numerous publications are listed in Google Scholar. [https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Colin+B.+Burke]

	*''~~American collegiate populations: a test~~ of ~~the traditional view~~''. ~~New York~~: ~~New York University Press, 1982~~.		Publications relating to information history include:

			*"History of information science." ''Annual Review of Information Science and Technology''. 41 (2007): 3-53. [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015066021208]
	*''Information and Secrecy: Vannevar Bush, Ultra, and the Other Memex''. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1994.		*''Information and Secrecy: Vannevar Bush, Ultra, and the Other Memex''. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1994.
	*''~~It wasn~~'~~t all magic~~: The ~~early struggle to automate cryptanalysis~~, ~~1930s~~-~~1960s''~~. ~~[Fort George G~~. ~~Meade~~, ~~MD] : Center~~ for ~~Cryptologic History~~, ~~National Security Agency, 2002~~. [https://www.~~govinfo~~.~~gov~~/~~app~~/~~details/GOVPUB-D-PURL-gpo40404~~]		*"A rough road to the information highway. Project INTREX: A view from the CLR archives." ''Information Processing and Management'' 32 (1996): 19-32.
	*'' The secret in Building 26 : the untold story of America's war against the U-boat Enigma codes''. With Jim DeBrosse. 2004.		*"The Ford Foundation's Search for an American Library Laboratory." ''IEEE Annals of the History of Computing'' 24, no 3 (2002): 56-74.
	*''Information and Intrigue: From Index Cards to Dewey Decimals to Alger Hiss.'' Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2014. ~~The life~~ Herbert Haviland Field and the Concilium Bibliographicum information service.		*"Thanks, Prof. Rayward, for Explaining..." ''Library Trends'' 62, no 2 (Fall 2013): 293-301. Commentary on the nature of information history. [https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/items/49357]
			*''Information and Intrigue: From Index Cards to Dewey Decimals to Alger Hiss.'' Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2014. A biography of Herbert Haviland Field and the Concilium Bibliographicum information service.
			*"Herbert Haviland Field (1868-1921): Bibliographer of Zoology." With M. K. Buckland. ''Bulletin of the Association for Information Science and Technology'' 42, no 6 (August/September 2016): 10-14. [https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1002/bul2.2016.1720420605]
			*"Precise Zoological Information: The Concilium Bibliographicum, 1895-1940." With M. K. Buckland. ''Bulletin of the Association for Information Science and Technology 42, no 6 (August/September 2016): 15- 19. [https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/bul2.2016.1720420606]
	*''America's Information Wars: The Untold Story of Information Systems in America’s Conflicts and Politics from World War II to the Internet Age''. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018.		*''America's Information Wars: The Untold Story of Information Systems in America’s Conflicts and Politics from World War II to the Internet Age''. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018.

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	== Further reading ==		== Further reading ==
	*Obituary, ~~many~~ family photos. [https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/columbia-md/colin-burke-12070245]		*Obituary, mainly family photos. [https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/columbia-md/colin-burke-12070245]

	== Papers ==		== Papers ==
	Unpublished material is available on his website. [https://userpages.umbc.edu/~burke/]		Unpublished material is available on his website. [https://userpages.umbc.edu/~burke/]

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	'''Colin Bradley Burke''' was born on January 3, 1936. After graduating from San Francisco State College (later San Francisco State University), he spent nearly twenty years as a professional musician. He received a PhD from the University of Washington in St Louis in 1973 with a dissertation on American colleges and their students, 1800-1860. He was for many years on the faculty of the Department of History, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, where he turned his attention to the early history of digital computing.		'''Colin Bradley Burke''' was born on January 3, 1936. After graduating from San Francisco State College (later San Francisco State University), he spent nearly twenty years as a professional musician. He received a PhD from the University of Washington in St Louis in 1973 with a dissertation on American colleges and their students, 1800-1860. He was for many years on the faculty of the Department of History, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, where he turned his attention to the early history of digital computing.

	Burke was a Fulbright Scholar in Warsaw, 1988-1989; Scholar in Residence at the National Security Agency's Center for Cryptologic History, 1991-1992; Eugene Garfield Fellow at the Chemical Heritage Foundation (later Science History Institute) in Philadelphia in 2000–2001; a Research Fellow at the Yale Program on Non-Profit Organizations; and Fellow of the Social Science Research Council. He died on November 6, 2024.		Burke was a Fulbright Scholar in Warsaw, 1988-1989; Scholar in Residence at the National Security Agency's Center for Cryptologic History, 1991-1992; Eugene Garfield Fellow at the Chemical Heritage Foundation (later Science History Institute) in Philadelphia, 2000–2001; a Research Fellow at the Yale Program on Non-Profit Organizations; and Fellow of the Social Science Research Council. He died on November 6, 2024 in Columbia, Maryland.

	== Contributions ==		== Contributions ==
	Colin Burke published a series of detailed historical studies of higher education, intelligence and espionage, and the development of information services. He specialized in primary sources: archives, interviews, and Freedom of Information requests. ~~He was a Fulbright scholar at the University of Warsaw, Poland, in 1988-1989.~~		Colin Burke published a series of detailed historical studies of higher education, intelligence and espionage, computing, and the development of information services. He specialized in primary sources: archives, interviews, and Freedom of Information requests.

	== Publications ==		== Publications ==
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	== Awards ==		== Awards ==
	*[[ASIST\|American Society for Information Science & Technology]]. Best Information Science Book Award, 2019.		*[[ASIST\|American Society for Information Science & Technology]]. Best Information Science Book Award, 2019.

			== Further reading ==
			*Obituary, many family photos. [https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/columbia-md/colin-burke-12070245]

	== Papers ==		== Papers ==
	Unpublished material is available on his website. [https://userpages.umbc.edu/~burke/]		Unpublished material is available on his website. [https://userpages.umbc.edu/~burke/]

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	== Life ==		== Life ==
	'''Colin Bradley Burke''' was born on January 3, 1936. After graduating from San Francisco State College (later San Francisco State University) he spent nearly twenty years as a professional musician. He received a PhD from the University of Washington in St Louis in 1973 with a dissertation on American colleges and their students, 1800-1860. He was for many years on the faculty of the Department of History, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, where he turned his attention to the early history of digital computing.		'''Colin Bradley Burke''' was born on January 3, 1936. After graduating from San Francisco State College (later San Francisco State University), he spent nearly twenty years as a professional musician. He received a PhD from the University of Washington in St Louis in 1973 with a dissertation on American colleges and their students, 1800-1860. He was for many years on the faculty of the Department of History, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, where he turned his attention to the early history of digital computing.

	Burke was a Fulbright Scholar in Warsaw, 1988-1989; Scholar in Residence at the National Security Agency's Center for Cryptologic History, 1991-1992; Eugene Garfield Fellow at the Chemical Heritage Foundation (later Science History Institute) in Philadelphia in 2000–2001; a Research Fellow at the Yale Program on Non-Profit Organizations; and Fellow of the Social Science Research Council. He died on November 6, 2024.		Burke was a Fulbright Scholar in Warsaw, 1988-1989; Scholar in Residence at the National Security Agency's Center for Cryptologic History, 1991-1992; Eugene Garfield Fellow at the Chemical Heritage Foundation (later Science History Institute) in Philadelphia in 2000–2001; a Research Fellow at the Yale Program on Non-Profit Organizations; and Fellow of the Social Science Research Council. He died on November 6, 2024.

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	== Life ==		== Life ==
	'''Colin Bradley Burke''' was born on January 3, 1936. He received a PhD from the University of Washington in St Louis. He was for many years on the faculty of the Department of History, University of Maryland, Baltimore County.		'''Colin Bradley Burke''' was born on January 3, 1936. After graduating from San Francisco State College (later San Francisco State University) he spent nearly twenty years as a professional musician. He received a PhD from the University of Washington in St Louis in 1973 with a dissertation on American colleges and their students, 1800-1860. He was for many years on the faculty of the Department of History, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, where he turned his attention to the early history of digital computing.

	Burke was Eugene Garfield Fellow at the Chemical Heritage Foundation (later Science History Institute) in Philadelphia in 2000–2001; a Research Fellow at the Yale Program on Non-Profit Organizations~~, the Scholar in Residence at the National Security Agency, a~~ Fellow of the Social Science Research Council~~, and the Fulbright Scholar in Warsaw, 1988-1989~~. He died on November 6, 2024.		Burke was a Fulbright Scholar in Warsaw, 1988-1989; Scholar in Residence at the National Security Agency's Center for Cryptologic History, 1991-1992; Eugene Garfield Fellow at the Chemical Heritage Foundation (later Science History Institute) in Philadelphia in 2000–2001; a Research Fellow at the Yale Program on Non-Profit Organizations; and Fellow of the Social Science Research Council. He died on November 6, 2024.

	== Contributions ==		== Contributions ==
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	== Publications ==		== Publications ==
	Burke's ~~contributions to information history~~ include:		Burke's publications include:

	*''American collegiate populations: a test of the traditional view''. New York: New York University Press, 1982.		*''American collegiate populations: a test of the traditional view''. New York: New York University Press, 1982.
	*''Information and Secrecy: Vannevar Bush, Ultra, and the Other Memex''.		*''Information and Secrecy: Vannevar Bush, Ultra, and the Other Memex''. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1994.
			*''It wasn't all magic: The early struggle to automate cryptanalysis, 1930s-1960s''. [Fort George G. Meade, MD] : Center for Cryptologic History, National Security Agency, 2002. [https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GOVPUB-D-PURL-gpo40404]
			*'' The secret in Building 26 : the untold story of America's war against the U-boat Enigma codes''. With Jim DeBrosse. 2004.
	*''Information and Intrigue: From Index Cards to Dewey Decimals to Alger Hiss.'' Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2014. The life Herbert Haviland Field and the Concilium Bibliographicum information service.		*''Information and Intrigue: From Index Cards to Dewey Decimals to Alger Hiss.'' Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2014. The life Herbert Haviland Field and the Concilium Bibliographicum information service.
	*''America's Information Wars: The Untold Story of Information Systems in America’s Conflicts and Politics from World War II to the Internet Age''.		*''America's Information Wars: The Untold Story of Information Systems in America’s Conflicts and Politics from World War II to the Internet Age''. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018.

			== Awards ==
			*[[ASIST\|American Society for Information Science & Technology]]. Best Information Science Book Award, 2019.

			== Papers ==
			Unpublished material is available on his website. [https://userpages.umbc.edu/~burke/]

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'''Colin B. Burke''' (1936-2024) was an American information historian.

== Life ==
'''Colin Bradley Burke''' was born on January 3, 1936. He received a PhD from the University of Washington in St Louis. He was for many years on the faculty of the Department of History, University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Burke was Eugene Garfield Fellow at the Chemical Heritage Foundation (later Science History Institute) in Philadelphia in 2000–2001; a Research Fellow at the Yale Program on Non-Profit Organizations, the Scholar in Residence at the National Security Agency, a Fellow of the Social Science Research Council, and the Fulbright Scholar in Warsaw, 1988-1989. He died on November 6, 2024.

== Contributions ==
Colin Burke published a series of detailed historical studies of higher education, intelligence and espionage, and the development of information services. He specialized in primary sources: archives, interviews, and Freedom of Information requests. He was a Fulbright scholar at the University of Warsaw, Poland, in 1988-1989.

== Publications ==
Burke's contributions to information history include:
*''American collegiate populations: a test of the traditional view''. New York: New York University Press, 1982.
*''Information and Secrecy: Vannevar Bush, Ultra, and the Other Memex''.
*''Information and Intrigue: From Index Cards to Dewey Decimals to Alger Hiss.'' Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2014. The life Herbert Haviland Field and the Concilium Bibliographicum information service.
*''America's Information Wars: The Untold Story of Information Systems in America’s Conflicts and Politics from World War II to the Internet Age''.