| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 227 pages) : illustrations |
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IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology ; 325 |
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IFIP advances in information and communication technology ; 325.
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| Contents |
Connections in the history of Australian computing / John Deane -- Why the real thing is essential for telling our stories / David Demant -- Wonder, sorcery, and technology : contribute to the history of Medieval robotics / Nadia Ambrosetti -- Andrew D. Booth : Britain's other "Fourth Man" / Roger G. Johnson -- The many dimensions of Kristen Nygaard, creator of object-oriented programming and the Scandinavian school of system development / Drude Berntsen, Knut Elgsaas, and Håvard Hegna -- Projects and activities of the IPSJ Computer History Committee / Eiiti Wada -- Contested histories : de-mythologising the early history of modern British computing / David Anderson -- 50 years ago we constructed the first Hungarian tube computer, the M-3 : short stories from the History of the First Hungarian Computer (1957-1960) / Győző Kovács -- Anatoly Kitov : pioneer of Russian informatics / Vladimir A. Kitov and Valery V. Shilov -- Materiel Command and the materiality of commands : an historical examination of the US Air Force, Control Data Corporation, and the Advanced Logistics System / Jeffrey R. Yost -- Purpose-built educational computers in the 1980s : the Australian experience / Arthur Tatnall and Ralph Leonard -- And they were thinking? Basic, Logo, Personality and pedagogy / John S. Murnane -- The life and growth of year 12 computing in Victoria : an ecological model / Arthur Tatnall and Bill Davey -- History of the European computer driving licence / Denise Leahy and Dudley Dolan -- A brief history of the Pick Environment in Australia / Stasys Lukaitis -- Turning points in computer education / Bill Davey and Kevin R. Parker -- Existence precedes essence : meaning of the stored-program concept / Allan Olley -- Recession, S-curves and Digital Equipment Corporation / David T. Goodwin and Roger G. Johnson -- ETHICS : the past, present and future of socio-technical systems design / Shona Leitch and Matthew J. Warren -- Lessons from discarded computer architectures / Andrew E. Fluck -- The birth of information systems / Audra Lukaitis, Stasys Lukaitis, and Bill Davey -- The Monash University Museum of Computing History : ten years on / A. Barbara Ainsworth, Christ Avram, and Judithe Sheard |
| Summary |
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the IFIP WG 9.7 International Conference on the History of Computing, HC 2010, held as part of the 21st World Computer Congress, WCC 2010, in Brisbane, Australia, in September 2010. The 22 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers cover a broad scope of topics relating to the history of computing written both by historians and by those who were involved in creating this history, ranging from computing hardware, software and computer applications (including education) to social aspects of computing |
| Notes |
International conference proceedings |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and author index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| In |
Springer eBooks |
| Subject |
Computer science -- History -- Congresses
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Computers -- History -- Congresses
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History.
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Information theory.
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History
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Information Theory
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Electronic Data Processing
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Computers
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history (discipline)
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computers.
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Informatique.
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Computer science
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Computers
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| Genre/Form |
History
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proceedings (reports)
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Conference papers and proceedings
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History
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Actes de congrès.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Tatnall, Arthur.
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IFIP World Computer Congress (2010 : Brisbane, Qld.)
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| ISBN |
9783642151996 |
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364215199X |
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