Series 5: Congressional Bills, Hearings, Reports, and Laws, 1983-2013

Topics include supercomputers and supercomputer programs, establishing an HPCC Program (the first bill was introduced in 1988 and the High-Performance Computing Act of 1991, Public Law 102-194, was signed into law on December 9, 1991), the HPCC Program and its successors, basic research, competitiveness, Information Infrastructure and Technology (a successor bill to the HPC Act), telecommunications, NSFNET, access to Government information, computer security, health care applications, telemedicine, Congressional Ad Hoc Steering Committee on Telemedicine and Health Care Informatics, and NGI.

Representatives from computing system manufacturers, higher education, HPCC agencies (including DAB Lindberg (NLM and NCO/HPCC)), the library community, OSTP, PITAC, professional organizations, research universities, supercomputer centers, and telecommunications providers testified or provided input.

The HPC Act of 1991 has been amended in the Next Generation Internet Research Act of 1998 (P.L. 105-305), the America COMPETES [Creating Opportunities to Meaningfully Promote Excellence in Technology, Education, and Science] Act of 2007 (P.L. 110-69), and the American Innovation and Competitiveness Act of 2017 (P.L. 114-329).

Series 4 has HPCC Program reports to Congress. Series 8 includes (a) the first Congressional hearing held over the Internet (1993 Jul) and (b) the 1995 introduction of THOMAS (Online Public Access to Congressional Information). Series 10 has PITAC and PCAST reports to Congress.

Items in cartons 37-40 were donated by Susan Fratkin (CASC).