Book ID: CBB001180682

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 (2010)

unapi

Tatnall, Arthur (Editor)


Springer


Publication Date: 2010
Physical Details: xii + 227 pp.; charts; ill.
Language: English

Description Contents: Connections in the history of Australian computing / John Deane -- 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) / Gyozo 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. (from WorldCat)


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Chapter Yost, Jeffrey R. (2010) Materiel command and the materiality of commands: An historical examination of the US Air Force, Control Data Corporation, and the Advanced Logistics Systems. In: 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 (p. 89). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Anja-Silvia Goeing
Crooks, Roderic N.
Duguid, Paul
Badia, Antonio
Grafton, Anthony
Rowe, Josh
Journals
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
Circumscribere: International Journal for the History of Science
Publishers
The MIT Press
Rowman & Littlefield
Princeton University Press
Oxford University Press
Information Today
Concepts
Information science
Information technology
Computers and computing
Information theory
Electronic information resources
Methods of communication; media
People
Snow, Charles Percy
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
20th century
Early modern
Modern
20th century, early
Places
United States
Europe
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