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Author Working Conference on the History of Nordic Computing (3rd : 2010 : Stockholm, Sweden)

Title History of Nordic computing 3 : Third IFIP WG 9.7 conference, HiNC 3, Stockholm, Sweden, October 18-20, 2010 : revised selected papers / John Impagliazzo, Per Lundin, Benkt Wangler (eds.)
Published Heidelberg ; New York : Springer, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 463 pages) : illustrations
Series IFIP advances in information and communication technology, 1868-4238 ; 350
IFIP advances in information and communication technology ; 350.
Contents Machine generated contents note: Keynote Address -- A World Full of Computers: How Did That Happen? / James W. Cortada -- Computerizing Public Sector Industries -- Computerization of the Norwegian Land Register: An Early Example of Outsourcing and Still a Model for Good Practice / Bjørn Nagell -- Controlling the Battlefield: Computing and Operational Command in the Swedish Armed Forces, 1966-1989 / Johan Gribbe -- The Use of Computers for Controlling Electricity Flows in Sweden, 1950-1980 / Arne Kaijser -- Operations Analysis Computing at FFI, 1970-1995 / Norodd Hagenson -- Re-engineering Norwegian Research Libraries, 1970-1980 / Ingeborg Torvik Sølvberg -- Instruments of Surveillance Welfare: Computerizing Unemployment and Health in 1960s and 1970s Sweden / Julia Peralta -- History of Electronic Prescriptions in Sweden: From Time-Sharing Systems via Smartcards to EDI / Gunnar O. Klein
Note continued: Electronic Health Records in Sweden: From Administrative Management to Clinical Decision Support / Gunnar O. Klein -- Computerizing Management and Financial Industries -- The Totally Integrated Management Information System in 1960s Sweden / Gustav Sjoblom -- The History of the Swedish ATM: Sparframjandet and Metior / Tobias Karlsson -- Electronic Securities: The Introduction of an Electronic Registration and Settlement System for the Norwegian Securities Market / Jan Hellstrøm -- How New Computing Technology Reformed the Audit Profession / Bjørn Barth Jacobsen -- Computerizing Art, Media, and Schools -- History of Digital Dating: "Computer-Balls" and Digital Pairing in Finland from the 1960s to the Present / Jaakko Suominen -- Collaborations between Engineers and Artists in the Making of Computer Art in Sweden, 1967-1986 / Anna Orrghen -- IBM's Norwegian Grammar Project, 1988-1991 / Jan Engh
Note continued: Computer Courses in Finnish Schools, 1980-1995 / Petri Saarikoski -- Teacher Pioneers in the Introduction of Computing Technology in the Swedish Upper Secondary School / Lennart Rolandsson -- Users and Systems Development -- Computing on the Desktop: From Batch to Online in Two Large Danish Service Bureaus / Anker Helms Jørgensen -- Utopia: Participatory Design from Scandinavia to the World / Yngve Sundblad -- Designing Democracy: The Utopia-Project and the Role of the Nordic Labor Movement in Technological Change during the 1970s and 1980s / Per Lundin -- The Making of a Nordic Computing Industry -- Early History of Computing in Denmark / Søren Duus Østergaard -- Making Business of a Revolutionary New Technology: The Eckert-Mauchly Company, 1945-1951 / Lars Heide -- IBM Manufacturing in the Nordic Countries / Petri Paju -- The Presence of the IBM Branch Office in Iceland, 1967-1992 / Sverrir Olafsson
Note continued: Personal Computers: A Gateway to Personal Computing / Kari Kotiranta -- Norwegian Computer Technology: Founding a New Industry / Yngvar Lundh -- The Founding, Fantastic Growth, and Fast Decline of Norsk Data AS / Tor Olav Steine -- The Norwegian National IT Plan, 1987-1990: Whence It Came, What It Was, and How It Ended / Arne Sølvberg -- Nordic Networking -- Before the Internet: Early Experiences of Computer Mediated Communication / Jacob Palme -- The Baby Networks: Nordic Positions Before the Internet / Tomas Ohlin -- Development of Internet Technology and Norwegian Participation / Yngvar Lundh -- The Internet Development Process: Observations and Reflections / Pal Spilling -- Nordic Software Development -- The Use of Interpretation for Data Acquisition and Control: Its Impact on Software Development and Project Management / Otto Vinter -- Computer Systems Performance Engineering in Trondheim: Origins and Development, 1970-1995 / Peter H. Hughes
Note continued: Provisioning of Highly Reliable Real-Time Systems / Kurt-Lennart Lundback -- Information Modeling: Forty Years of Friendship / Eva Lindencrona -- Scandinavian Contributions to Object-Oriented Modeling Languages / Birger Møller-Pedersen -- Nordic Research in Software and Systems Development -- Dansk Datamatik Center / Leif Rystrøm -- Sisu: The Swedish Institute for Systems Development / Janis A. Bubenko, Jr. -- Cloud Computing in the 1970s: The Discovery of Hash Based Relational Algebra / Kjell Bratbergsengen -- The Tempora Approach: Information Systems Development Based on Explicit Business Rules with Time / Benkt Wangler -- Ramatic: A Case Shell Platform / Mats Gvstafsson -- Teaching at Nordic Universities -- Computer Science Education at Helsinki University of Technology: The First Ten Years (1968-1978) / Markku Syrjanen
Note continued: Provincial Designer Design: A Creative Mix of Hard Restrictions and Soft Visions of an Information Systems Educational Program / Lena-Maria Oberg -- Teaching Image Analysis at Diku / Peter Johansen -- Simula: Mother Tongue for a Generation of Nordic Programmers / Yngve Sundblad -- New Historiographical Approaches and Methodological Reflections -- Precursors of the IT Nation: Computer Use and Control in Swedish Society, 1955-1985 / Bjorn Thodenius -- Text Mining and Qualitative Analysis of an IT History Interview Collection / Timo Honkela -- A Classification of Methods and Contributions in the Historiography of Nordic Computing / Veronika Susova -- Research Directions Profile in the Computing Museum of the Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Latvia (IMCS) / Evija Ziemele -- Panel Discussion -- What Can We Learn from the History of Nordic Computing? / Nina Wormbs
Summary Annotation The papers focus on the application and use of ICT and ways in which technical progress affected the conditions of the development and use of ICT systems in the Nordic countries covering a period from around 1970 until the beginning of the 1990s
Analysis Computer science
Computer industry
Education
History of Computing
Computers and Society
The Computer Industry
The Computing Profession
Computers and Education
Personal Computing
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
In Springer eBooks
Subject Electronic data processing -- Scandinavia -- History -- Congresses
Computers and civilization.
Computer industry.
Professions.
Education -- Data processing.
Microcomputers.
Electronic Data Processing
Computers
Microcomputers
computers.
microcomputers.
Informatique.
Electronic data processing
Scandinavia
Genre/Form proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
History
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Form Electronic book
Author Impagliazzo, John.
Lundin, Per.
Wangler, Benkt.
ISBN 9783642233159
3642233155
9783642233142
3642233147
Other Titles History of Nordic computing three
Third IFIP WG 9.7 conference
HiNC 3