IFIP TC6 Open Digital Library

HC 2010: Brisbane, Australia

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

Springer, IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology 325, ISBN: 978-3-642-15198-9



Contents

Connections in the History of Australian Computing.

John Deane

 1-12

Why the Real Thing Is Essential for Telling Our Stories.

David Demant

 13-15

Wonder, Sorcery, and Technology: Contribute to the History of Medieval Robotics.

Nadia Ambrosetti

 16-25

Andrew D. Booth - Britain's Other "Fourth Man".

Roger G. Johnson

 26-37

The Many Dimensions of Kristen Nygaard, Creator of Object-Oriented Programming and the Scandinavian School of System Development.

Drude Berntsen, Knut Elgsaas, Håvard Hegna

 38-49

Projects and Activities of the IPSJ Computer History Committee.

Eiiti Wada

 50-57

Contested Histories: De-mythologising the Early History of Modern British Computing.

David Anderson

 58-67

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

 68-79

Anatoly Kitov - Pioneer of Russian Informatics.

Vladimir A. Kitov, Valery V. Shilov

 80-88

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

 89-100

Purpose-Built Educational Computers in the 1980s: The Australian Experience.

Arthur Tatnall, Ralph Leonard

 101-111

And They Were Thinking? Basic, Logo, Personality and Pedagogy.

John S. Murnane

 112-123

The Life and Growth of Year 12 Computing in Victoria: An Ecological Model.

Arthur Tatnall, Bill Davey

 124-133

History of the European Computer Driving Licence.

Denise Leahy, Dudley Dolan

 134-145

A Brief History of the Pick Environment in Australia.

Stasys Lukaitis

 146-158

Turning Points in Computer Education.

Bill Davey, Kevin R. Parker

 159-168

Existence Precedes Essence - Meaning of the Stored-Program Concept.

Allan Olley

 169-178

Recession, S-Curves and Digital Equipment Corporation.

David T. Goodwin, Roger G. Johnson

 179-188

ETHICS: The Past, Present and Future of Socio-Technical Systems Design.

Shona Leitch, Matthew J. Warren

 189-197

Lessons from Discarded Computer Architectures.

Andrew E. Fluck

 198-205

The Birth of Information Systems.

Audra Lukaitis, Stas Lukaitis, Bill Davey

 206-215

The Monash University Museum of Computing History: Ten Years On.

A. Barbara Ainsworth, Chris Avram, Judithe Sheard

 216-227