A history of computing in the twentieth century
by International Research Conference on the History of Computing (1976 Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory) · first published 1980
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Metropolis, N., J. Howlett, and Gian-Carlo Rota, A History of Computing in the Twentieth Century, Academic Press, 1980. https://www.amazon.com/History-Computing-Twentieth-Nicholas-... This is based on papers presented at a 1976 conference by many of the original pioneers.
on “Ask HN: Computer Science/History Books?” ↗…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EylBknGtkqA at the 1976 First International Research Conference on the History of Computing. The conference paper is pp. 125-135 https://archive.org/details/historyofcomputi0000inte/page/12... in A History of Computing in the Twentieth Century (1980, Metropolis, Howlett and Rota eds., ISBN 0-12-491650-3 ). Naturally it also got a session at the first History of Programming Languages conference in 1978 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/960118.808379…
on “Celebrating 70 Years of Fortran” ↗Not Thomas Watson, but A. S. Householder[1] in Nicholas Metropolis et al "A History of Computing in the Twentieth Century"[2]: https://mobile.twitter.com/benklaasen/status/874543989004881... [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alston_Scott_Householder [2] https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=578384
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