Michael S. Mahoney
Articles on the History of Computing

• "The History of Computing in the History of Technology", Annals of the History of Computing 10(1988), 113-125 [pdf]
• "Cybernetics and Information Technology", in R.C. Olby et al. (eds.), Companion to the History of Modern Science (London/New York: Routledge, Chapman & Hall, 1989), Chap. 34
• "The Roots of Software Engineering", CWI Quarterly, 3,4(1990), 325-34 [pdf]
• "Computers and Mathematics: The Search for a Discipline of Computer Science", in J. Echeverria, A. Ibarra and T. Mormann (eds.), The Space of Mathematics (Berlin/New York: De Gruyter, 1992), 347-61
• "Issues in the History of Computing", in Thomas J. Bergin and Rick G. Gibson (eds.), History of Programming Languages II (NY: ACM Press, 1996), 772-81
• "What Makes History?", ibid., pp. 831-2 [pdf]
• "Computer Science: The Search for a Mathematical Theory", in John Krige and Dominique Pestre (eds.), Science in the 20th Century (Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1997), Chap. 31
• "Mathematics and Computing at Princeton in the 1950s", English original of "Princeton explore le nouveau calcul", Les Cahiers de Science & Vie, No. 53 (October 1999), pp. 14-19
• "The Structures of Computation", in Raul Rojas and Ulf Hashagen (eds.), The First Computers -- History and Architectures (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000)
• "Boys' Toys and Women's Work: Feminism Engages Software", in Angela N.H. Creager, Elizabeth Lunbeck, and Londa Schiebinger (eds.), Feminism in Twentieth Century Science, Technology and  Medicine (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001), Chap. 9
• "Software: The Self-Programming Machine", in Atsushi Akera and Frederik Nebeker (eds.), From 0 to 1:  An Authoritative History of Modern Computing (New York: Oxford U.P., 2002)
• Software as Science - Science as Software, and Probing the Elephant:  How do the Parts Fit Together?,  in Ulf Hashagen, Reinhard Keil-Slawik, and Arthur Norberg (eds.) History of Computing: Software Issues (Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2002); presented at the International Conference on the History of Computing 2000 at the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum, Paderborn, Germany, 5-7 April 2000.
• "In Our Own Image: Creating the Computer", in Ida Stamhuis, Teun Koetsier, and Kees de Pater (eds), The Changing Image of the Sciences (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers,  2002)
• "Finding a History for Software Engineering", Annals of the History of Computing 26,1(2004), 8-19 (Preprint version, with illustrations)
• "The Histories of Computing(s)", a lecture in the series "Digital Scholarship, Digital Culture", at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College, London, 18 March 2004; published version in Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 30,2(June, 2005) [pdf]
• "What Was the Question? The Origins of the Theory of Computation", in Using History to Teach Computer Science and Related Disciplines (Selected Papers from a Workshop Sponsored by Computing Research Association with Funding from the National Science Foundation) ed. Atsushi Akera and William Aspray (Washington, DC: Computing Research Association, 2004), 225-232.
• "The Structures of Computation and the Mathematical Structure of Nature", a paper delivered at the 21st International Workshop on the History and Philosophy of Science, "The Origins and Nature of Computation", Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, 16 June 2006; to appear in The Rutherford Journal 3(2008).
  
• "What Makes the History of Software Hard and Why It Matters", preprint of paper delivered to the workshop on "Method and Didactic Challenges of the History of Informatics", University of Klagenfurt, 12 April 2007; to appear in Annals of the History of Computing 30,3(2008).