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.).
| Author/creator | IFIP WG 9.7 International Conference, HC |
| Other author | Tatnall, Arthur. |
| Other author | IFIP World Computer Congress 2010 : Brisbane, Qld.) |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : Springer, |
| Description | xii, 227 p. : ill., charts ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Springer Books |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from SpringerLink IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology Contemporary (1997-present) |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Springer Nature - Springer Computer Science eBooks 2010 English International |
| Subjects |
| Series | IFIP AICT, 1868-4238 ; 325 IFIP advances in information and communication technology ; 325. UNAUTHORIZED |
| 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) / 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. |
| General note | 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2010932197 |
| ISBN | 9783642151989 |
| ISBN | 3642151981 |