Article ID: CBB000930608

Software as History Embodied (2009)

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Unlike computer hardware, which is by definition a tangible ``thing'' that can be readily isolated, identified, and evaluated (and whose maintenance can be anticipated and accounted for), computer software has been inextricably linked to a larger sociotechnical system that includes machines (computers and their associated peripherals), people (users, designers, and developers), and processes (the corporate payroll system, for example). Software maintenance is therefore as much a social as a technological endeavor. Usually what needs to be ``fixed'' is the ongoing negotiation between the expectations of users, the larger context of use and operation, and the features of the software system in question.

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Authors & Contributors
Williams, Robin
Pollock, Neil
Kevles, Daniel J.
Haigh, Thomas
Grave, Kurt De
Daylight, Edgar G.
Concepts
Software
Computer science
Computers and computing
Computer industry
Engineering
Technology
Time Periods
20th century, late
20th century
21st century
Places
United States
Netherlands
Minnesota (U.S.)
Institutions
Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium
Dartmouth University
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