IEEE Annals of the History of Computing

Annals October-Decemeber 2010 From the Editor's Desk

The use of women workers in early computing and advertising ironically may have hurt their long-term professional position in the field because it reflected, and helped shape, their role as low-cost, unskilled workers. This article traces the ...

At Cambridge, Charles Babbage developed the mathematical foundation that helped him design and build his computing machines. Yet, his experience at college tells the story of a young man who was experimenting with his identity, exploring new ideas, and ...

From the 1970s to 1990s, the US Department of Defense attempted to enforce software standards on its computer and aerospace contractors. Many software developers resented this and believed it encroached on their freedom to exercise professional ...

The MF7114 was an early 4-bit single-chip microprocessor designed and built by Microsystems International between 1970 and 1972. The MF7114's genesis is the design work on Intel's first microprocessor, the 4004. Exploring the MF7114 microprocessor's ...

In response to the increasing popularity in the late 1970s of affordable, general-purpose, microprocessor-based personal computers in the US, several countries attempted to create indigenous personal computer industries. The Turing-850, a general-...

John Rischard Rice is one of the founders of mathematical software as a distinct scholarly community. Trained in mathematics he spent four decades in Purdue's Department of Computer Sciences. During the 1970s he convened a series of seminal conferences ...

Randy H. Katz, David Patterson, and Garth Gibson first defined the acronym RAID, or redundant arrays of inexpensive disks, in a 1987 paper. The RAID idea was that it was feasible to achieve significantly higher levels of storage reliability from ...

Although geologists refer to the entire area as Long Island, socially and politically Long Island has come to mean the counties of Nassau and Suffolk. Nassau is perhaps best known as the archetype of the post-war American suburb; it was here that the ...

This Events & Sightings installment covers a range of recent events focusing on the history of computing. Dave Walden recaps a Who Is Who in the Internet World (WiWiW) project Internet pioneers meeting in Washington D.C. Akihiko Yamada describes the ...

What does the Ford mass-production story have to do with the history of computing? Everything. More than half a century before Toyota's just-in-time inventory captured hearts and minds around the industrial world, Ford was using state-of-the-art ...