A history of computing technology
A history of computing technology
Atanasoff: forgotten father of the computer
Atanasoff: forgotten father of the computer
Fumbling the future: how Xerox invented, then ignored, the first personal computer
Fumbling the future: how Xerox invented, then ignored, the first personal computer
Guidelines for the Documentation of Segments of the History of Computing
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
Communications of the ACM
Bit by Bit: An Illustrated History of Computers.
Bit by Bit: An Illustrated History of Computers.
History of Computing in the Twentieth Century
History of Computing in the Twentieth Century
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
What (else) should CS educators know?
Communications of the ACM
Using a PDP-11/10 to teach content and history in computer organization courses
Proceedings of the thirty-second SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer Science Education
ACE '11 Proceedings of the Thirteenth Australasian Computing Education Conference - Volume 114
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The year 1996 marks the 50th anniversary of the public revelation of the ENIAC, the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Large Scale Computing Subcommittee of the AIEE under the chairmanship of Charles Concordia, and the beginning of the 50th anniversary celebrations of the IEEE Computer Society and the ACM. Within those years, the computer field has not only developed but has had added to it new concepts and ideas that have transmogrified it into an almost unrecognizable entity. We are reaching the stage of development where each new generation of participants is unaware both of their overall technological ancestry and the history of the development of their specialty, and have no past to build upon. In this article, we look at the study of the history of computing and its applicability to today's technological challenges, and conclude with the recommendation that we need to know enough about our history to protect ourselves from it and not be condemned to repeat it, but also to use it to our advantage