Volume 36 Issue 4 • Oct.-Dec. 2014
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Table of contents
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- Guest Editor's Introduction
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Algol Culture and Programming Styles [Guest editor's introduction]
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Cited by: Papers (1) - Algol in France: From Universal Project to Embedded Culture
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Algol in France: From Universal Project to Embedded Culture
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Cited by: Papers (4)Algol was a high-level programming language, created by American and European mathematicians in the late 1950s. It sparked a wave of debates, projects and counter-projects, and remained lively in academic spheres until the 1970s. This article focuses on Algol, less as a programming language than as a research programme, an object of circulation and translation, and a decisive step in the building ... View full abstract»
- Embracing the Algol Effort in Czechoslovakia
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Embracing the Algol Effort in Czechoslovakia
Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):26 - 37In the 1950s, Czechoslovakian computing was more famous for its fault-tolerant computers, SAPO and EPOS, than for developments in automatic programming. However, the Algol effort did not go unnoticed there. It was quite the contrary, even though its appeal to Czechoslovakian computer programmers only became manifest in their work after the publication of the preliminary report on the algorithmic l... View full abstract»
- When Switches Became Programs: Programming Languages and Telecommunications, 1965-1980
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When Switches Became Programs: Programming Languages and Telecommunications, 1965-1980
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Cited by: Papers (1)Beginning in the mid-1960s, electromechanical telecommunications switches were increasingly replaced by computer-controlled switches. Production and development of this equipment relied on the construction of its software. This software was shaped by practices, ideas, and ideals appropriated from the computer industry and computer science as much as by concerns and constraints of the telecommunica... View full abstract»
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- Universality versus Locality: The Amsterdam Style of Algol Implementation
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Universality versus Locality: The Amsterdam Style of Algol Implementation
Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):52 - 63During the 1950s, computer programming was a local practice. Programs from one computing center would not work on computers elsewhere. For example, programs written in Munich differed radically in style from programs written in Amsterdam. Similar problems were also encountered in the United States, leading American computer programmers in 1954 to combine the ideal of a machine-independent programm... View full abstract»
- Hopper and Dijkstra: Crisis, Revolution, and the Future of Programming
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Hopper and Dijkstra: Crisis, Revolution, and the Future of Programming
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Cited by: Papers (2)In the late 1960s, tensions were erupting in corporate and academic computing cultures in the United States and abroad with competing views about the state of computer programming and possible future implications. A discourse of "software crisis" was ignited in 1968 when NATO hosted a conference on the topic of software engineering. The author examines the rhetoric of crisis, revolution, and promi... View full abstract»
- Video Synthesizers: From Analog Computing to Digital Art
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Video Synthesizers: From Analog Computing to Digital Art
Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):74 - 86In the late 1960s, artists and engineers began building increasingly sophisticated video synthesizers, machines that produced abstract or distorted images by electronically manipulating either a video signal or the cathode ray tube on which it was displayed. This article explores how experimental videographers modeled video synthesizers on audio synthesizers, conceptualized them as analog computer... View full abstract»
- Reviews
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- Events and Sightings
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Events and Sightings
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- Anecdotes
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My Corner of the Time-Sharing Innovation World
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Cited by: Papers (1) - Think Piece
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Was Algol 60 the First Algorithmic Language?
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Aims & Scope
The IEEE Annals of the History of Computing serves as a record of vital contributions which recount, preserve, and analyze the history of computing and the impact of computing on society.
Meet Our Editors
Editor-in-Chief
Gerardo Con Diaz
University of California, Davis
condiaz@ucdavis.edu