Organizational Partners
The organizations and academic groups collaborating with the Medley Interlisp Project, and how these partnerships advance software preservation and research.
Software Preservation Network
We joined SPN in 2021 as an “Implementation Sponsor”.
- SPN membership of (mainly academic and non-profit) organizations
- We might partner with one or more of their members
- Membership is $4k/year
- Hosts Emulation as a Service infrastructure
Universities:
University of Alberta
- Professor Eric Kaltman, Software History Futures and Technologies
- Graduate students:
- Eleanor Young
- Abhik Hasnain
LFG (Lexical Functional Grammar) group
- Set up to allow tax-deductable donations for student travel to conferences
- LFG is a current Medley application maintained by Ron Kaplan
Computer History Museum
- PARC gave CHM a “donation” of files from PARC backups, including lisp sources. This looks like an important trove of Information.
- Hosts Smalltalk Zoo
- Offered to record history interview
Interim Computer Museum
In 2025 we started a collaboration with the Interim Computer Museum for an Interlisp exhibition.
- The museum set up a space to demonstrate the running Medley system and let visitor try it out
- We developed “Museum Mode” for Medley Online, a facility to support guided demonstrations in museums or other settings
Internet Archive
We have no formal relationship with IA, but we would be happy to have one.
- MAME
Software Heritage
- UNESCO sponsored activity to collect and archive software
- Longer term focus claims are on reproducibility of software artifacts