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'''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 | 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 | 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/] | |||
Revision as of 16:12, 9 April 2025
Colin B. Burke (1936-2024) was an American information historian.
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.
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
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 publications 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. 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. [1]
- 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.
- 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
- American Society for Information Science & Technology. Best Information Science Book Award, 2019.
Papers
Unpublished material is available on his website. [2]