History of Nordic Computing 2

1. Front Matter

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2. Keynote Addresses

   1. Organizing the History of Computing

      • Thomas J. Misa

      Pages 1-12

   2. Provisioning of Safe Train Control in Nordic Countries

      • Harold ‘Bud’ Lawson

      Pages 13-28

   3. Computing and Computer Science in the Soviet Baltic Region

      • Enn Tyugu

      Pages 29-37

3. Working with History and Its Usability

   1. What Do IT-People Know about the Nordic History of Computers and User Interfaces?

      • Anker Helms Jørgensen

      Pages 38-44

   2. Increasing the Museum Value of Information Technology Objects

      • Emmi Tittonen

      Pages 45-54

   3. Preserving Our Digital Heritage: Experiences from the Pelikonepeijoonit Project

      • Mikko Heinonen, Markku Reunanen

      Pages 55-64

   4. From Computing Machines to IT

      • Per Lundin

      Pages 65-73

   5. Agentization in Computing: How to Ameliorate the Consequences of the History Today?

      • Kai K. Kimppa, Janne Lahtiranta, Markku I. Nurminen

      Pages 74-83

   6. Computer Fiction: “A Logic Named Joe”

      • David Ferro, Eric Swedin

      Pages 84-94

4. Computer System Perspectives

   1. Annotations of First Generation Systems Development in Sweden

      • Janis Bubenko Jr.

      Pages 95-105

   2. Centralized versus Decentralized Information Systems

      • Mats-Åke Hugoson

      Pages 106-115

5. University Computing

   1. Scientific Computers at the Helsinki University of Technology during the Post Pioneering Stage

      • Panu Nykänen, Hans Andersin

      Pages 116-120

   2. Tool or Science? The History of Computing at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology

      • Ola Nordal

      Pages 121-129

   3. The Development of University Computing in Sweden 1965–1985

      • Ingemar Dahlstrand

      Pages 130-137

6. University Education

   1. Information Processing – Administrative Data Processing

      • Janis Bubenko Jr.

      Pages 138-148

   2. FORTRAN II – The First Computer Language Used at the University of Iceland

      • Oddur Benediktsson

      Pages 149-155

7. Computers, Policies and Politics

   1. The Development of Computer Policies in Government, Political Parties, and Trade Unions in Norway 1961–1983

      • Knut Elgsaas, Håvard Hegna

      Pages 156-170

   2. Computer Industry as a National Task

      • Petri Paju

      Pages 171-184

   3. Information Systems and Software Engineering Research and Education in Oulu until the 1990s

      • Henry Oinas-Kukkonen, Pentti Kerola, Harri Oinas-Kukkonen, Jouni Similä, Petri Pulli

      Pages 185-194

The First Conference on the History of Nordic Computing (HiNC1) was organized in Trondheim, in June 2003. The HiNC1 event focused on the early years of computing, that is the years from the 1940s through the 1960s, although it formally extended to year 1985. In the preface of the proceedings of HiNC1, Janis Bubenko, Jr. , John Impagliazzo, and Arne Sølvberg describe well the peculiarities of early Nordic c- puting [1]. While developing hardware was a necessity for the first professionals, quite soon the computer became an industrial product. Computer scientists, among others, grew increasingly interested in programming and application software. P- gress in these areas from the 1960s to the 1980s was experienced as astonishing. The developments during these decades were taken as the focus of HiNC2. During those decades computers arrived to every branch of large and medium-sized businesses and the users of the computer systems were no longer only computer s- cialists but also people with other main duties. Compared to the early years of comp- ing before 1960, where the number of computer projects and applications was small, capturing a holistic view of the history between the 1960s and the 1980s is conside- bly more difficult. The HiNC2 conference attempted to help in this endeavor.

• agent systems
• computer policies
• digital heritage
• fortran II
• history of computing
• home computer
• information processing
• it museums
• politics
• triangulation of iceland
• typesetting
• university
• usability
• user interfaces

• Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar

  John Impagliazzo

• Department of Computer Science, University of Turku, Turku, Finland

  Timo Järvi

• Department of Cultural History, University of Turku, Turku, Finland

  Petri Paju

Policies and ethics