History of Nordic Computing 3

1. Front Matter

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2. Keynote Address

   1. A World Full of Computers: How Did That Happen?

      • James W. Cortada

      Pages 1-12

3. Computerizing Public Sector Industries

   1. Computerization of the Norwegian Land Register: An Early Example of Outsourcing and Still a Model for Good Practice

      • Bjørn Nagell

      Pages 13-21

   2. Controlling the Battlefield: Computing and Operational Command in the Swedish Armed Forces, 1966–1989

      • Johan Gribbe

      Pages 22-27

   3. The Use of Computers for Controlling Electricity Flows in Sweden, 1950–1980

      • Arne Kaijser

      Pages 28-34

   4. Operations Analysis Computing at FFI, 1970–1995

      • Norodd Hagenson

      Pages 35-42

   5. Re-engineering Norwegian Research Libraries, 1970–1980

      • Ingeborg Torvik Sølvberg

      Pages 43-55

   6. Instruments of Surveillance Welfare: Computerizing Unemployment and Health in 1960s and 1970s Sweden

      • Isabelle Dussauge, Julia Peralta

      Pages 56-64

   7. History of Electronic Prescriptions in Sweden: From Time-Sharing Systems via Smartcards to EDI

      • Gunnar O. Klein

      Pages 65-73

   8. Electronic Health Records in Sweden: From Administrative Management to Clinical Decision Support

      • Karin Kajbjer, Ragnar Nordberg, Gunnar O. Klein

      Pages 74-82

4. Computerizing Management and Financial Industries

   1. The Totally Integrated Management Information System in 1960s Sweden

      • Gustav Sjöblom

      Pages 83-91

   2. The History of the Swedish ATM: Sparfrämjandet and Metior

      • Björn Thodenius, Bernardo Bátiz-Lazo, Tobias Karlsson

      Pages 92-100

   3. Electronic Securities: The Introduction of an Electronic Registration and Settlement System for the Norwegian Securities Market

      • Jan Hellstrøm

      Pages 101-107

   4. How New Computing Technology Reformed the Audit Profession

      • Bjørn Barth Jacobsen

      Pages 108-116

5. Computerizing Art, Media, and Schools

   1. History of Digital Dating: “Computer-Balls” and Digital Pairing in Finland from the 1960s to the Present

      • Jaakko Suominen

      Pages 117-126

   2. Collaborations between Engineers and Artists in the Making of Computer Art in Sweden, 1967–1986

      • Anna Orrghen

      Pages 127-136

   3. IBM’s Norwegian Grammar Project, 1988–1991

      • Jan Engh

      Pages 137-149

   4. Computer Courses in Finnish Schools, 1980–1995

      • Petri Saarikoski

      Pages 150-158

   5. Teacher Pioneers in the Introduction of Computing Technology in the Swedish Upper Secondary School

      • Lennart Rolandsson

      Pages 159-167

6. Users and Systems Development

   1. Computing on the Desktop: From Batch to Online in Two Large Danish Service Bureaus

      • Anker Helms Jørgensen

      Pages 168-175

This book constitutes the refereed post-proceedings of the Third IFIP WG 9.7 Conference on the History of Nordic Computing, HiNC3, held in Stockholm, Sweden, in October 2010. The 50 revised full papers presented together with a keynote address and a panel discussion were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. 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. They are organized in the following topical sections: computerizing public sector industries; computerizing management and financial industries; computerizing art, media, and schools; users and systems development; the making of a Nordic computing industry; Nordic networking; Nordic software development; Nordic research in software and systems development; teaching at Nordic universities; and new historiographical approaches and methodological reflections.

• IT museums
• Scandinavian computing history
• computing in Denmark
• computing in Finland
• computing in Norway
• computing in Sweden
• digital heritage

• Hofstra University, Fort Salonga, USA

  John Impagliazzo

• Division of History of Science and Technology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

  Per Lundin

• Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, Stockholm University, Kista, Sweden

  Benkt Wangler

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