John von Neumann and the origins of modern computing
John von Neumann and the origins of modern computing
Analogy or identity: brain and machine at the Macy conferences on cybernetics
ACM SIGBIO Newsletter - Special edition on biologically motivated computing
The computer in the United States: from laboratory to market, 1930 to 1960
The computer in the United States: from laboratory to market, 1930 to 1960
The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America
The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America
General-Purpose Electronic Analog Computing: 1945-1965
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
Facit and the BESK Boys: Sweden's Computer Industry (1956-1962)
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
Computability of analog networks
Theoretical Computer Science
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This paper gives a short overview of early analog computing in Sweden in the 1940s and 1950s. Being a small country, Sweden tried to catch up with the development of computing that had been going on in the United States and elsewhere during World War II, and in the 1950s Sweden was pioneering this technology. By the late 1960s, Sweden was one of the most computer-intensive countries with a successful domestic computer industry. Unable to maintain a sustainable general computer production, some small sectors of Swedish computer R&D have prospered. In the concluding remarks, I suggest that the concept of &“technological niches” is a useful tool, both analytically and for technology policy-making