IFIP WG 9.7 International Conference, HC (2010 : Brisbane, Qld.)
Title:
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 / Arthur Tatnall (Ed.)
Includes bibliographical references and index. The Congress was organized as a series of 17 smaller conferences, run in parallel. This is one of 13 volumes of proceedings issued from the papers of the 17 conferences. Each volume is limited to a specific topic or topics that are closely related. Details of the Congress are posted on the IFIP webpage, http://www.ifip.org.
Contents:
The Monash University Museum of Computing History : ten years on / A. Barbara Ainsworth, Christ Avram, and Judithe Sheard. 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.
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