Storia dell'Informatica (History of Informatics) -- 2005/06 -- Links, Books, etc
Last modified: 4 - February - 2006
Ada Byron, Countess of Lovelace
LINKS (in random order)
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MARTIN CAMPBELL-KELLY'S HOME PAGE:
many useful links (in particular: list of history courses)
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History course in Nottingham
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Michael S. Mahoney, Princeton
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Mahoney : The World of the Computer
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COMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM
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Tthe History of Computing
Project: several tracks (timeline, hw, sw, companies, pioneers,...)
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History of Computing
at Columbia U.: there is a lot on early IBM machines
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Women in
computing and maths.: Ada, Grace Hopper, ...
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C. Babbage Institute
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Calculating machines:
pictures, applets ...,
including " The Controversial Replica
of Leonardo da Vinci's Adding Machine "
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All about
abaci, applet included.
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NetHistory:
"If you're looking for a dry, formal history of the Internet, look elsewhere.
The purpose of NetHistory is to give you a feeling for what it was like in
the pioneering days of BITNET and the Internet. ...."
- Internet
timeline
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The Turing Archive
for the History of Computing
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The Manchester machines:
machine code, the first program, the Programmers' Handbook
written by Turing, ....
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IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
(easy access to index and abstracts only; the main page, bottom-left,
contains links to a survey of computer history books)
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Links to WWW-Sites of the History of Computing, by Horst Zuse
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Wikipedia: History of Computing
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Computer Industry History
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The history of Computing Science, by Michelle A. Hoyle
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www.google.com/Top/Computers/History
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ELECTRONIC COMPUTERS WITHIN THE ORDNANCE CORPS:
"This historical monograph covers the pioneer efforts and subsequent
contributions of the U.S. Army Ordnance Corps in the field of automatic
electronic computing systems during the period 1942 through 1961. "
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IFIP Working Group 9.7, History of Computing
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Pier Giorgo Perotto and the Olivetti Programma 101
BOOKS
A selected list of recent books, either "text-books" or "reference
books":
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Michael R. Williams,
A History of Computing Technology, 2nd edition,
Wiley-IEEE Computer Society Press, 1997
$ 55 (amazon.com)
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Martin Campbell-Kelly and William Aspray,
Computer: A History of the Information Machine, 2nd edition
Westview Press, 2004
$ 35 (amazon.com)
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Paul Ceruzzi,
A History of Modern Computing,
MIT Press, 2003
$ 16.50 (amazon.com)
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Ral Rojas and Ulf Hashagen (editors),
The First Computers--History and Architectures,
The MIT Press, 2002
$ 30 (amazon.com)
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Martin Davis,
Engines of Logic,
(formerly: The universal computer : the road from Leibniz to Turing)
W. W. Norton & Company, 2001
$ 10 (amazon.com)
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Martin Campbell-Kelly,
From Airline Reservations to Sonic the Hedgehog : A History of the
Software Industry,
The MIT Press, 2004
$ 11.53 (amazon.com)
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Janet Abate,
Inventing the Internet,
The MIT Press, 2000
$ 24 (amazon.com)
A selected list of less recent books
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William Aspray (editor),
Computing Before Computers - a book on the history of computing,
out of print;
pdf version
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Herman Goldstine
The computer: from Pascal to von Neumann
Princeton University Press, 1972
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Metropolis, Howlett, Rota (editors)
A History of computing in the twentieth century
Academic Press, 1980.
A collection of papers
(Table of Contents,
in pdf format)
- Saul Rosen (editor)
Programming systems and languages
McGraw Hill, 1967
A collection of papers
(Table of Contents,
in pdf format)
- Brian Randell (editor)
The origins of digital computers: selected papers
Springer, 1975
A collection of historical papers
(Table of Contents,
in pdf format)
- Jean E. Sammet
Programming languages: history and fundamentals
Prentice-Hall, 1969
(Table of Contents,
in pdf format)
- R. Wexelblatt ed.
History of Programming Languages
Proceedings of the 1st HOPL Conference,
available as .pdf files from the
ACM Digital Library
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Thomas J. Bergin, Jr. and Richard G. Gibson, Jr. (eds.),
History of Programming Languages II
Proceedings of the 2nd HOPL Conference,
available as .pdf files from the
ACM Digital Library
Chapters in Books
- Andrew S. Tanenbaum,
Structured Computer Organization,
Prentice Hall
Chapter 1
- Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Operating Systems: Design and implementation,
Prentice Hall
Chapter 1
- William Stallings,
Computer Organization and Architecture: Designing for Performance, 5th edition,
Prentice Hall
Chapter 2
PAPERS
Papers specifically about teaching or "doing"
history of computing
- M. R. WILLIAMS
A Course in the History of Computation
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing,
Volume 7, Number 3, July 1985
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History in the Computing Curriculum
By the IFIP TC3 (Education Committee) and TC9
(Relationship Between Computers and Society Committee)
joint task group
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing,
Volume 21, Number 1, 1999
- Michael S. Mahoney
The History of Computing in the History of Technology
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing,
Volume 10 (1988), 113-125
A selected list of papers
- Saul ROSEN
Electronic computers: a historical survey
Computing Surveys, Vol.1, March 1969
available as .pdf file from the
ACM Digital Library
- Robert ROSIN
Supervisory and Monitor Systems
Computing Surveys, Vol 1, March 1969
about the origins of operating systems;
available as .pdf file from the
ACM Digital Library
- Saul ROSEN
Programming Systems and Languages (A historical survey +
Some recent developments)
in Saul Rosen (above)
- Saul ROSEN
Programming Systems and Languages 1965-1975
Comm. of the ACM, Vol 15, July 1972 (sic !!)
a follow-up to the previous paper
- Jean SAMMET
Programming Languages: History and Future
Comm. of the ACM, Vol 15, July 1972
- Donald KNUTH, Luis PARDO
The early development of programming languages
in Metropolis (above)
- M.R. WILLIAMS
The first computer
in : New results and trends in Computer Science (H. Maurer ed.)
Lecture Notes in Comp Sci, vol 555, 1991
- Corrado BONFANTI
Mezzo secolo di futuro. L'informatica italiana compie
cinquant'anni
Mondo Digitale, Number 3, September 2004
- B.E. Carpenter and R. W. Doran
The other Turing machine
The Computer Journal, Vol 20, number 3, 1977
- John Backus
Programming in America in the 1950s - Some Personal Impressions,
in Metropolis (above)