History of Computing
Subtitle: 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
By: Arthur Tatnall (Ed.)
Contributors: Tatnall, Arthur; IFIP World Computer Congress (21st : 2010 : Brisbane, Qld.)
Series: IFIP AICT -- 325; IFIP advances in information and communication technology -- 325.
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9783642151989
Subjects: History; Study and teaching; Congresses; Information technology; Management information systems
Notes: 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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Connections in the history of Australian computing  -- John Deane; title: Why the real thing is essential for telling our stories  -- David Demant; title: Wonder, sorcery, and technology : contribute to the history of Medieval robotics  -- Nadia Ambrosetti; title: Andrew D. Booth : Britain's other "Fourth Man"  -- Roger G. Johnson; title: 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; title: Projects and activities of the IPSJ Computer History Committee  -- Eiiti Wada; title: Contested histories : de-mythologising the early history of modern British computing  -- David Anderson; title: 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; title: Anatoly Kitov : pioneer of Russian informatics  -- Vladimir A. Kitov and Valery V. Shilov; title: 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; title: Purpose-built educational computers in the 1980s : the Australian experience  -- Arthur Tatnall and Ralph Leonard; title: And they were thinking? Basic, Logo, Personality and pedagogy  -- John S. Murnane; title: The life and growth of year 12 computing in Victoria : an ecological model  -- Arthur Tatnall and Bill Davey; title: History of the European computer driving licence  -- Denise Leahy and Dudley Dolan; title: A brief history of the Pick Environment in Australia  -- Stasys Lukaitis; title: Turning points in computer education  -- Bill Davey and Kevin R. Parker; title: Existence precedes essence : meaning of the stored-program concept  -- Allan Olley; title: Recession, S-curves and Digital Equipment Corporation  -- David T. Goodwin and Roger G. Johnson; title: ETHICS : the past, present and future of socio-technical systems design  -- Shona Leitch and Matthew J. Warren; title: Lessons from discarded computer architectures  -- Andrew E. Fluck; title: The birth of information systems  -- Audra Lukaitis, Stasys Lukaitis, and Bill Davey; title: The Monash University Museum of Computing History : ten years on -- A. Barbara Ainsworth, Christ Avram, and Judithe Sheard.