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THE HISTORY OF COMPUTING
"Who controls the past commands the future. Who commands the future conquers the past."
-George Orwell
This collection of materials relating to the history of computing is
provided courtesy of the Department of Computer
Science at Virginia Tech, and is sponsored
in part by a grant from the National Science
Foundation (CDA-9312611).
This site has been chosen by "Edu-Activ", an educational resource site based in Germany.  For other awards click here. 
The Computer Museum is moving into its new home, a 120,000 square foot facility in the heart of Silicon Valley
The Computer History Museum's new home is a two-story, 119,000 square foot architecturally distinctive structure, designed and developed in 1994. It is located on 7.5 acres of land in the heart of Silicon Valley at the intersection of highways 101 and 85. This highly visible location is convenient to both San Francisco and San Jose.
The First Conference on History of Nordic Computing: HiNC 1
Organized by IFIP Working Group 9.7
In cooperation with IFIP TC3 will be held:
June 16 - 18, 2003
The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway
The call for papers closes 1 November 2002.
![[LOGO]](http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history//mill_home_01.jpg) A new addition to our site is the "take-off" on the ABC show "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" in a history quiz. Try your knowledge of the history of computing here.
INDEX
Introduction
News
Conferences and meetings
Courses
Overviews of
the History of Computing
People and Pioneers
Companies and Corporations
Machines (including a special section on Cryptography)
Programming
Languages
Calculators
Computer History Organizations and
Museums
Computing at Institutions
Archives and Collections
Publications
Networks and Internet
On-line emulators of computers and computing systems
Miscellaneous
Women in (the) Computing History
INTRODUCTION
This WWW page is the initiation of a collection of materials related
to the history of computing as collected and written by J.
A. N. Lee, until 1995 Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE
Annals of the History of Computing, past chair of the IEEE Computer
Society History of Computing Committee and current chair of the IFIP Working
Group 9.7 (History of Computing). It was original constructed as part of
the course materials for the "Professionalism in Computing" class
at Virginia Tech, and in particular as a set of notes and amplification
of the materials in the video "The
Machine That Changed The World", developed and distributed by
WGBH (PBS) and the British Broadcasting Company (BBC). We are hoping to
expand the coverage of the video by providing stills for each of the topics
in the notes. The best way to access items on this page is through your
browser's find/search facility. An alternative video series is "The Triumph of the Nerds" that chronicles the development of the PC, starting in the mid-1970s. Information about the series is available from PBS and summaries are posted as part of a course on M.I.S. Organizations and Technology at Northern Illinois University.
A collection of materials intended to describe the history of computing
to those interested in the 50th Anniversary of Computing in 1996 was used
by students at Virginia Tech to develop a Virtual
Museum of Computing that you may find very interesting.
This list includes several pointers to lists which we have not been
able to verify fully. We are VERY aware that some of these lists contain
errors of both fact and date and thus recommend that persons who use them
recognize that they are foremost secondary, if not tertiary sources,
and thus should be independently verified.
The materials included here are intended to assist scholars and students
in their work, but the use of the materials for other publications (other
than links from other pages) requires you to get the appropriate copyright
clearance. If you wish to use these materials please send me e-mail
During the Fall semester 1996 and Spring Semester 1997, several students
have chosen to partially fulfill the requirements of our "Professionalism"
class by adding additional background material in support of the video
"The Machine That
Changed The World" notes. When you find their work, it would be
nice if you would drop them a note to appreciate their work. If there are
other classes that have had a similar assignment and would like to contribute
their materials please let me have a
URL as soon as possible. Ultimately I would like to download the material
to this site to help preserve the information since student sites tend
to disappear frequently. Thus please put a copyright notice on the page,
and a note that permission has been granted to transfer it to Virginia
Tech.
Your comments, thoughts, and possibly contributions, should be sent
to me J.A.N. Lee. Links to
other pages are particularly welcome. Several contributors have suggested
that I add thumbnails for the portraits and figures. Regrettably this page
has grown so large that it takes a long time for people to download. If
I get time, I will try to separate the page into separate pages for each
of the topics in the index and then add thumbnails. Enjoy the page.
Throughout 1996 I wrote a monthly column for IEEE Computer
entitled "looking.back". While each of the columns was edited
for length (and occasionally for content) and the figures removed, the
original submissions are now available, and should be relevent for many
years to come!
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
Novembere
December
CONFERENCES AND MEETINGS
The First Conference on History of Nordic Computing: HiNC 1
Software Design and Management (Germany) Conference 2001 was on the Pioneers of Software. Held in Bonn on 28 and 29 June 2001, the program was filled with the "stars" of programming languages, software engineering, and structured programming. Their web site is a gemstone of videos and graphics worth visiting!
Vintage Computer Festival
If you know of a meeting that needs
to be advertised send me an e-mail message.
INTERESTING ITEMS (Without enough companions to make a category)
The Origin of the word Daemon
A preliminary posting of a bibliography on on-line character recognition (a.k.a. dynamic character recognition, a.k.a. pen computing) by Jean Renard Ward.
History of Computing Curriculum - a proposal.
Picture of the original bug (now in the Smithsonian Institute) Bug
An interesting story of the
QWERTY keyboard, its origins and myths.
A Computer in a Buddhist
Temple -- a press release photograph from the WGBH press kit related
to Video Series
Questions and Answers from the 1994 ACM/Computer Museum Computer Bowl ComputerBowl
For a Trivia Quiz relating to the History of Computing -Click
here!
The computer was named the Machine
of the Year in 1982 by Time Magazine. The rationale for this selection
has been extracted from the Time Inc. pages.
The Machine That Changed The World -- notes on the WGBH/PBS Television
Series TMTCTW; Notes
were recently added for episodes 4 and 5, courtesy of Osman Balci (Virginia
Tech) and links to "side bars" for the first three episodes were
expanded. If you can add links to other places of interest that would help
students get an expanded understanding of the topics in this video series,
send me e-mail.
Talking Machines
-- a press release photograph from the WGBH press kit related to Video
Series
A special page by Amdahl Corporation commemorates the 25th Anniversary
of Unix and includes several links to historic information: http://www.amdahl.com/internet/events/unix25.html
Humor is a dangerous thing when one is dealing with history since it
often distorts the facts and creates myths that outlive the facts. This
set of quotations
has circulated around newsgroups long enough that it is becoming part of
history itself! Accept with a grain of salt.
switch on witch-request@niestu.com
Women in (the) Computing History
In keeping with the tradition of documenting women's history through
oral histories, the Women in (the) Computing History mailing list hopes
to augment traditional resources of women's history and histories of computing
by being a repository for women's own stories throughout the history of
computing. All women in computing, too, not just those of us formally schooled
in the computing sciences.
The list is open and will be unmoderated so long as the signal rate
remains high. If traffic warrants, a digest option will be made available,
but does not currently exist.
We would like to gate this list to other networks. Contact the list
owner/maintainer, Donna., at donna.s@niestu.com
to work out gating arrangements. PLEASE DO NOT GATE WITHOUT PERMISSION
FROM THE MAINTAINER FIRST.
To subscribe to Women in (the) Computing History, send the following
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Use this information at your own risk. For more information and disclaimer
send E-mail to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.NODAK.EDU
with the command INFO NEW-LIST in the body. AWARDS
This site has been chosen by "Edu-Activ", an educational resource site based in Germany.
Selected by Länkskafferiet (the Link Larder), the Swedish School net, 15 December 2000. 
Featured on HomeworkSpot.com, September 2000. 
A Look Smart Award in January 1997
A Best of the Web Award in November 1997
The favorite site of The Tech Museum of Innovation in May 1998. Tech 10 focuses on high technology for
a middle school and above audience. 
The Links2Go Key Resource Award in July 1998. 
CyberTeddy's Top 500 WebSite award, in Fall 1999.
Last updated 2002/12/06
© J.A.N. Lee, 1995-2002.
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