Ulf Hashagen

History of Computing: Software Issues: International Conference on the History of Computing, ICHC 2000 April 5–7, 2000 Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum Paderborn, Germany Ulf Hashagen Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2002 edition

Description for Sales People: This is the first account on the history of software. By exploring the current understanding of software and its history, speakers and commentators explored the fundamental elements that make software what it is. Table of Contents: Pioneering Work in Software During the 50s in Central Europe.- Software as Science Science as Software.- Commentary on Michael S. Mahoney.- Software as Science? Commentary on Michael S. Mahoney.- Software as Engineering.- Commentary on James E. Tomayko.- Commentary on James E. Tomayko.- A View from the Sonnenbichl: On the Historical Sociology of Software and System Dependability.- Commentary on Donald MacKenzie.- Dependability Then and Now: Commentary on Donald MacKenzie.- Software as Labor Process.- Are Programmers Oppressed by Monopoly Capital, or Shall the Geeks Inherit the Earth? Commentary on Nathan Ensmenger & William Aspray.- A Commentary on David A. Hounshell s Commentary on Software as Labor Process .- Software as an Economic Activity.- Commentary on Martin Campbell-Kelly.- Commentary on Martin Campbell-Kelly.- A Note on Martin Campbell-Kelly s Software as an Economic Activity and David Mowery s Commentary .- Collecting Software: Preserving Information in an Object-Centred Culture.- Commentary on Doron Swade.- Towards a Software Museum: Challenges and Opportunities.- Towards a Software Museum: Challenges and Opportunities.- Preserving Software in History Museums: A Material Culture Approach.- Commentary on David K. Allison, Preserving Software in History Museums .- Probing the Elephant: How Do the Parts Fit Together?."Publisher Marketing: The papers in this volume were presented at a conference that was designed to map out historical study needs in one area of the history of computing, namely, software. The Paderbom conference was sponsored by the Heinz Nixdorf Muse umsForum and co-sponsored by the Charles Babbage Institute and the Heinz Nixdorf Institute of the University of Paderbom. The idea for the conference emerged from the consideration of a larger concept that was to prepare a new handbook on the history of computing. Believing that preparation of the handbook would encounter obstacles in some areas of computing that have not received adequate attention from historians, the originators of the idea of the handbook decided on aseries of mapping conferences to try to overcome the obstacles, of which the Paderbom conference is the first. The organizers of the conference invited a group of historians, sociologists, and computer scientists to present pa pers and comments about a selected set of issues in the history of software. The organizing committee consisted of William Aspray (Computing Research Asso ciation, Washington, D. C. ), Martin Campbell-Kelly (University of Warwick, U. K. ), Ulf Hashagen (Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum, Paderbom), Reinhard Keil Slawik (Heinz Nixdorf Institute, University of Paderbom), Michael S. Mahoney (Princeton University) and Arthur L. Norberg (Charies Babbage Institute, Uni ver sity of Minnesota)."

Contributor Bio:  Hashagen, Ulf Ulf Hashagen is affiliated with the Munich Center for the History and Science and Technology, Deutsches Museum. Contributor Bio:  Norberg, Arthur L Arthur L. Norberg is Director of the Charles Babbage Institute for the History of Information and Technology. He holds the ERA Land-Grant Chair in History of Technology and is a Professor in the Program in History of Science and Technology and in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Minnesota.