History of Computing: Learning from the Past: Ifip Wg 9.7 International Conference, Hc 2010, Held as Part of Wcc 2010, Brisbane, Australia, September (Paperback, 2010)

Connections in the History of Australian Computing.- Why the Real Thing Is Essential for Telling Our Stories.- Wonder, Sorcery, and Technology: Contribute to the History of Medieval Robotics.- Andrew D. Booth - Britain's Other "Fourth Man".- The Many Dimensions of Kristen Nygaard, Creator of Object-Oriented Programming and the Scandinavian School of System Development.- Projects and Activities of the IPSJ Computer History Committee.- Contested Histories: De-mythologising the Early History of Modern British Computing.- 50 Years Ago We Constructed the First Hungarian Tube Computer, the M-3: Short Stories from the History of the First Hungarian Computer (1957-1960).- Anatoly Kitov - Pioneer of Russian Informatics.- Materiel Command and the Materiality of Commands: An Historical Examination of the US Air Force, Control Data Corporation, and the Advanced Logistics System.- Purpose-Built Educational Computers in the 1980s: The Australian Experience.- And They Were Thinking? Basic, Logo, Personality and Pedagogy.- The Life and Growth of Year 12 Computing in Victoria: An Ecological Model.- History of the European Computer Driving Licence.- A Brief History of the Pick Environment in Australia.- Turning Points in Computer Education.- Existence Precedes Essence - Meaning of the Stored-Program Concept.- Recession, S-Curves and Digital Equipment Corporation.- ETHICS: The Past, Present and Future of Socio-Technical Systems Design.- Lessons from Discarded Computer Architectures.- The Birth of Information Systems.- The Monash University Museum of Computing History: Ten Years On.