A history of computing in the twentieth century : a collection of essays /
Why a history of computing, considering how recent the past? Are there any lessons to be learned from retelling and rereading the story of the computer and the rise of computer science? First, these articles give accounts not found elsewhere. Tales of British top-secret COLOSSUS, glimpses beyond the...
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1980
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Introduction
- We would know what they thought when they did it / R.W. Hamming
- Historiography: a perspective for computer scientists / Kenneth O. May
- Part II. The human side
- Computer developments 1935-1955, as seen from Cambridge, U.S.A. / Garrett Birkhoff
- Pioneering work on computers at Bletchley / I.J. Good
- The COLOSSUS / B. Randell
- Von Neumann: the interaction of mathematics and computing / S.M. Ulam
- Turing's work at the National Physical Laboratory and the construction of Pilot ACE, DEUCE, and ACE / J.H. Wilkinson
- The Smithsonian computer history project and some personal recollections / Henry S. Tropp
- Part III. The languages
- Programming in America in the 1950s: some personal impressions / John Backus
- The early development of programming in the USSR / Andrei P. Ershov and Mikhail R. Shura-Bura
- The early development of programming languages / Donald E. Knuth and Luis Trabb Pardo
- Reflections on the evolution of algorithmic language / Mark B. Wells
- Part IV. The machines
- Computer development at the Institute for Advanced Study / Julian Bigelow
- From ENIAC to the stored-program computer: two revolutions in computers / Arthur W. Burks
- Computer development at Argonne National Laboratory / J.C. Chu
- The ORDVAC and the ILLIAC / James E. Robertson
- WHIRLWIND / Robert R. Everett
- Reminiscences of Oak Ridge / A.S. Householder
- Computer development at IBM / Cuthbert C. Hurd
- The SWAC: the National Bureau of Weather Standards Western Automatic Computer / Harry D. Huskey
- Computer development at Manchester University / S.H. Lavington
- A history of the sieve process / D.H. Lehmer
- The MANIAC / N. Metropolis
- Early research on computers at RCA / Jan Rajchman
- Memories of the Bureau of Standards' SEAC / Ralph J. Slutz
- Early computers / George R. Stibitz
- The start of an ERA: Engineering Research Associates, Inc., 1946-1955 / Erwin Tomash
- Early programming development in Cambridge / M.V. Wilkes
- Part V. The places
- Between Zuse and Rutishauser: the early development of digital computing in central Europe / Friedrich L. Bauer
- The ENIAC / J. Presper Eckert, Jr.
- The ENIAC / John W. Mauchly
- Computers in the University of London, 1945-1962 / Andrew D. Booth
- A programmer's early memories / Edsger W. Dijkstra
- Early history of computing in Japan / Ryota Suekane
- From mechanical linkages to electronic computers: recollections from Czechoslovakia / Antonin Svoboda
- Central European prehistory of computing / H. Zemanek
- Some remarks on the history of computing in Germany / Konrad Zuse
- The origins of digital computers: supplementary bibliography / B. Randell.