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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, Proceedings

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  1. Arthur Tatnall

    1. Victoria Graduate School of Business, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia

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Part of the book series: IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology (IFIPAICT, volume 325)

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Table of contents (22 papers)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. Connections in the History of Australian Computing

    • John Deane
    Pages 1-12

  3. Why the Real Thing Is Essential for Telling Our Stories

    • David Demant
    Pages 13-15

  4. Wonder, Sorcery, and Technology: Contribute to the History of Medieval Robotics

    • Nadia Ambrosetti
    Pages 16-25

  5. Andrew D. Booth – Britain’s Other “Fourth Man”

    • Roger G. Johnson
    Pages 26-37

  6. The Many Dimensions of Kristen Nygaard, Creator of Object-Oriented Programming and the Scandinavian School of System Development

    • Drude Berntsen, Knut Elgsaas, Håvard Hegna
    Pages 38-49

  7. Projects and Activities of the IPSJ Computer History Committee

    • Eiiti Wada
    Pages 50-57

  8. Contested Histories: De-mythologising the Early History of Modern British Computing

    • David Anderson
    Pages 58-67

  9. 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
    Pages 68-79

  10. Anatoly Kitov - Pioneer of Russian Informatics

    • Vladimir A. Kitov, Valery V. Shilov
    Pages 80-88

  11. 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
    Pages 89-100

  12. Purpose-Built Educational Computers in the 1980s: The Australian Experience

    • Arthur Tatnall, Ralph Leonard
    Pages 101-111

  13. And They Were Thinking? Basic, Logo, Personality and Pedagogy

    • John S. Murnane
    Pages 112-123

  14. The Life and Growth of Year 12 Computing in Victoria: An Ecological Model

    • Arthur Tatnall, Bill Davey
    Pages 124-133

  15. History of the European Computer Driving Licence

    • Denise Leahy, Dudley Dolan
    Pages 134-145

  16. A Brief History of the Pick Environment in Australia

    • Stasys Lukaitis
    Pages 146-158

  17. Turning Points in Computer Education

    • Bill Davey, Kevin R. Parker
    Pages 159-168

  18. Existence Precedes Essence - Meaning of the Stored-Program Concept

    • Allan Olley
    Pages 169-178

  19. Recession, S-Curves and Digital Equipment Corporation

    • David T. Goodwin, Roger G. Johnson
    Pages 179-188

  20. ETHICS: The Past, Present and Future of Socio-Technical Systems Design

    • Shona Leitch, Matthew J. Warren
    Pages 189-197
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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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  • Victoria Graduate School of Business, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia

    Arthur Tatnall

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