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History of Computing

The document discusses the history of computing through books on the topic, including ones relating computing to history and identifying principles of computing. It also discusses an oral history initiative by the ACM History Committee to interview living Turing Award laureates and create a video record as part of ongoing work on the Turing website.

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History of Computing

The document discusses the history of computing through books on the topic, including ones relating computing to history and identifying principles of computing. It also discusses an oral history initiative by the ACM History Committee to interview living Turing Award laureates and create a video record as part of ongoing work on the Turing website.

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HISTORY OF COMPUTING

- There have been many books that relates computing to history. Subrata
Dasgupta's It Began with Babbage: The Genesis of Computer Science is one
of them. Two recent books further suggest that computing is historically
grounded. Peter Denning and Craig Martell's Great Principles of
Computing2 builds on Denning's 30-year quest to identify and codify
principles as the essence of computing. In Great Principles the closer the
authors get to cutting-edge science, the less their findings resemble the
science- fair model of hypothesis, data collection, and analysis. The ACM
History Committee, created in 2004, has just launched a major oral-history
initiative to ensure there are interviews with each of the 42 living Turing
laureates, creating a compelling video record. These oral histories,
continued year by year, will complement the ongoing work on the Turing
website, overseen now by Thomas Haigh. The History Committee connects
the ACM membership with professional historians of computing.
Committee members represent research centers and museums, libraries
and academic departments, industry and government laboratories, and
varied ACM committees.

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