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Making the History of Computing Relevant

IFIP WG 9.7 International Conference, HC 2013, London, UK, June 17-18, 2013, Revised Selected Papers

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Editors:
  1. Arthur Tatnall

    1. School of Management and Information Systems, Victoria University, Australia

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  2. Tilly Blyth

    1. Keeper of Technology and Engineering, Science Museum, London, UK

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  3. Roger Johnson

    1. Computer conservation Society, Hampshire, UK

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Part of the book series: IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology (IFIPAICT, volume 416)

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Table of contents (29 papers)

  1. Front Matter

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  3. Spotlight on Some Key Collections and Their Future Plans

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 45-45
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    2. The Heinz Nixdorf Museums Forum, Central Venue for the “History of Computing”

      • Norbert Ryska, Jochen Viehoff
      Pages 47-52

    3. The Computers’ Collection at the Polytechnic Museum

      • Marina Smolevitskaya
      Pages 53-63

  4. Thoughts on Expanding the Audience for Computing History

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      Pages 65-65
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    2. Making History Relevant: The Case of Computing

      • Gauthier van den Hove
      Pages 67-78

    3. “The Internet: A Belgian Story?” The Mundaneum

      • Delphine Jenart
      Pages 79-85

  6. Integrating History with Computer Science Education

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119
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    2. Using Old Computers for Teaching Computer Science

      • Giovanni A. Cignoni, Fabio Gadducci
      Pages 121-131

    3. Computing: Is There a Future in the Past?

      • Chris Monk
      Pages 132-134

    4. Bringing Relevance to Computing Courses through History

      • John Impagliazzo, Mohammed Samaka
      Pages 135-143

    5. Using Events from the Past to Inform the Future

      • Martha E. Crosby
      Pages 144-148
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This book constitutes the refereed post-proceedings of the IFIP WG 9.7 International Conference on the History of Computing, HC 2013, held in London, UK, in June 2013. The 29 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics related to the history of computing and offer a number of different approaches to making this history relevant. These range from discussion of approaches to describing and analyzing the history through storytelling and education to description of various collections, working installations and reconstruction projects. The papers have been organized in the following topical sections: the importance of storytelling in museums; spotlight on some key collections and their future plans; thoughts on expanding the audience for computing history; spotlight on some research projects; integrating history with computer science education; putting the history of computing into different contexts;celebrating nostalgia for games - and its potential as Trojan horse; the importance and challenges of working installations; and reconstruction stories.

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Management and Information Systems, Victoria University, Australia

    Arthur Tatnall

  • Keeper of Technology and Engineering, Science Museum, London, UK

    Tilly Blyth

  • Computer conservation Society, Hampshire, UK

    Roger Johnson

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Making the History of Computing Relevant

  • Book Subtitle: IFIP WG 9.7 International Conference, HC 2013, London, UK, June 17-18, 2013, Revised Selected Papers

  • Editors: Arthur Tatnall, Tilly Blyth, Roger Johnson

  • Series Title: IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41650-7

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: IFIP Federation for Information Processing 2013

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-41649-1Published: 06 December 2013

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-52521-0Published: 20 September 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-41650-7Published: 06 December 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1868-4238

  • Series E-ISSN: 1868-422X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 321

  • Number of Illustrations: 131 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: History of Computing, Computers and Education, User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction

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