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Title:

In the beginning : personal recollections of software pioneers / [edited by] Robert L. Glass.

Publisher:

IEEE Computer Society Press,

Copyright Date:

c1998

Description:

vi, 318 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Computer software--History.--History.
Electronic data processing personnel

Other Authors:

Glass, Robert L., 1932-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Life before software, a few reminiscences / David Myers -- Software reflections : a pioneer's view of the history of the field / Robert L. Glass -- Reflections on a software life / Watts S. Humphrey -- How I watched in pain as IBM outsmarted UNIVAC / Norman F. Scneidewind -- An early application generator and other recollections / Barry Boehm -- View from below / Robert N. Britcher -- Almost thirty years as a change agent / Donald J. Reifer -- Leo, the first business computer : a personal experience / Frank Land -- Compu-THEN : before megabytes / Ben G. Matley -- Four anecdotes / Harold Joseph Highland -- The prolonged metamorphosis of a software engineer / Robert L. Baber -- Autobiographical snippets / John M. Bennett -- Closing the circle / Bruce I. Blum -- Before memory was virtual / Peter J. Denning -- Growing up with software tools / Raymond C. Houghton.

ISBN:

9780818679995
0818679999

OCLC:

(OCoLC)36582113

LCCN:

97011391

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)