Storia dell'Informatica (History of Informatics) -- 2006/07 -- Links, Books, etc

Last modified: 22 - April - 2007

LINKS (in random order)

• MARTIN CAMPBELL-KELLY'S HOME PAGE: many useful links (in particular: list of history courses)
• History course in Nottingham
• Michael S. Mahoney, Princeton
• Mahoney : The World of the Computer
• COMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM
• Tthe History of Computing Project: several tracks (timeline, hw, sw, companies, pioneers,...)
• History of Computing at Columbia U.: there is a lot on early IBM machines
• Women in computing and maths.: Ada, Grace Hopper, ...
• C. Babbage Institute
• Calculating machines: pictures, applets ..., including " The Controversial Replica of Leonardo da Vinci's Adding Machine "
• All about abaci, applet included.
• 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
• The Turing Archive for the History of Computing
• The Manchester machines: machine code, the first program, the Programmers' Handbook written by Turing, ....
• 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)
• Links to WWW-Sites of the History of Computing, by Horst Zuse
• Wikipedia: History of Computing
• Computer Industry History
• The history of Computing Science, by Michelle A. Hoyle
• www.google.com/Top/Computers/History
• 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. "
• IFIP Working Group 9.7, History of Computing
• Pier Giorgo Perotto and the Olivetti Programma 101
  • P. G. Perotto: biography, books, ...
  • html version of the book Programma 101 by P.G. Perotto
  • Full details on the Programma 101
  • A simulator for the Programma 101
• Museo dell'informatica e del calcolo scientifico (AICA - CILEA)
• CSIRAC - Australia's First Computer
  [ The fourth computer in the world, CSIRAC (pronounced 'sigh-rack') was designed and built in Australia. It made its first successful test run in November 1949. ]
• Melbourne Museum: CSIRAC - Australia's First Computer

BOOKS

A selected list of recent books, either "text-books" or "reference books":

• Michael R. Williams,
  A History of Computing Technology, 2nd edition,
  Wiley-IEEE Computer Society Press, 1997
• Martin Campbell-Kelly and William Aspray,
  Computer: A History of the Information Machine, 2nd edition
  Westview Press, 2004
• Paul Ceruzzi,
  A History of Modern Computing,
  MIT Press, 2003
• Ral Rojas and Ulf Hashagen (editors),
  The First Computers--History and Architectures,
  The MIT Press, 2002
• Martin Davis,
  Engines of Logic,
  (formerly: The universal computer : the road from Leibniz to Turing)
  W. W. Norton & Company, 2001
• Martin Campbell-Kelly,
  From Airline Reservations to Sonic the Hedgehog : A History of the Software Industry,
  The MIT Press, 2004
• Janet Abate,
  Inventing the Internet,
  The MIT Press, 2000

A selected list of less recent books

• William Aspray (editor),
  Computing Before Computers - a book on the history of computing,
  out of print;
  pdf version
• Herman Goldstine
  The computer: from Pascal to von Neumann
  Princeton University Press, 1972
  
• 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
• 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
• Terrence W. Pratt
  Programming Languages: Design and Inplementation (2nd edition)
  Prentice Hall, 1984

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
• 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)
• M.W.Wilkes - W. Renwick
  The EDSAC Demonstration
  Report of a Conference on High Speed Automatic Calculating-machines
  University Mathematical Laboratory, Cambridge, June 1949
  in Randell 67 (above)
• D. J. Wheeler
  Programme Organization and Initial Orders for the EDSAC
  Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series A, Volume 202, Number 1071 (1950), pp 573 - 589
• A. M. Turing
  Computing Machinery and Intelligence
  Mind 59 (1950), pp. 433-460.
  Full text available at http://cogprints.org/499/