EAN: 9783030189570

HISTORY OF COMPUTING HISTORICAL STUDIES IN CO...

This is a volume of chapters on the historical study of information  computing  and society
written by seven of the most senior  distinguished members of the History of Computing field.
These are edited  expanded versions of papers presented in a distinguished lecture series in
2018 at the University of Colorado Boulder - in the shadow of the Flatirons  the front range of
the Rocky Mountains. Topics range widely across the history of computing. They include the
digitalization of computer and communication technologies  gender history of computing  the
history of data science  incentives for innovation in the computing field  labor history of
computing  and the process of standardization. Authors were given wide latitude to write on a
topic of their own choice  so long as the result is an exemplary article that represents the
highest level of scholarship in the field  producing articles that scholars in the field will
still look to read twenty years from now. The intention is to publish articles of general
interest  well situated in the research literature  well grounded in source material  and
well-polished pieces of writing. The volume is primarily of interest to historians of computing
but individual articles will be of interest to scholars in media studies  communication 
computer science  cognitive science  general and technology history  and business.

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