History of Computing: Learning from the Past: IFIP WG 9.7 International Conference, HC 2010, Held as Part of WCC 2010, Brisbane, Australia, September 20-23, 2010, ProceedingsArthur Tatnall Springer, 6 aug. 2010 - 229 pagini History of Computing: Learning from the Past Why is the history of computing important? Given that the computer, as we now know it, came into existence less than 70 years ago it might seem a little odd to some people that we are concerned with its history. Isn’t history about ‘old things’? Computing, of course, goes back much further than 70 years with many earlier - vices rightly being known as computers, and their history is, of course, important. It is only the history of electronic digital computers that is relatively recent. History is often justified by use of a quote from George Santayana who famously said that: ‘Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it’. It is arguable whether there are particular mistakes in the history of computing that we should avoid in the future, but there is some circularity in this question, as the only way we will know the answer to this is to study our history. This book contains papers on a wide range of topics relating to the history of c- puting, written both by historians and also by those who were involved in creating this history. The papers are the result of an international conference on the History of Computing that was held as a part of the IFIP World Computer Congress in Brisbane in September 2010. |
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Why the Real Thing Is Essential for Telling Our Stories | 13 |
Contribute to the History of Medieval Robotics | 16 |
Andrew D Booth Britains Other Fourth Man | 26 |
The Many Dimensions of Kristen Nygaard Creator of ObjectOriented Programming and the Scandinavian School of System Development | 38 |
Projects and Activities of the IPSJ Computer History Committee | 50 |
Demythologising the Early History of Modern British Computing | 58 |
Short Stories from the History of the First Hungarian Computer 19571960 | 68 |
An Ecological Model | 124 |
History of the European Computer Driving Licence | 134 |
A Brief History of the Pick Environment in Australia | 146 |
Turning Points in Computer Education | 159 |
Existence Precedes Essence Meaning of the StoredProgram Concept | 169 |
Recession SCurves and Digital Equipment Corporation | 179 |
The Past Present and Future of SocioTechnical Systems Design | 189 |
Lessons from Discarded Computer Architectures | 198 |
Anatoly Kitov Pioneer of Russian Informatics | 80 |
An Historical Examination of the US Air Force Control Data Corporation and the Advanced Logistics System | 89 |
The Australian Experience | 101 |
And They Were Thinking? Basic Logo Personality and Pedagogy | 112 |
The Birth of Information Systems | 206 |
Ten Years On | 216 |
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