FRS 159, Fall 2007 - Creating the Computer
Resources on the Web
- General
- Explore the WWW Virtual
Library of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
- The Linda Hall
Library has an extensive collection of scientific and engineering
journals, monographs, and conference proceedings, plus material
pertinent to standards and patents.
- The main WWW site for the history of computing is at the Department of Computer Science at
Virginia Tech (VPISU). Take some time to
tour its links.
- Visit Jonathan Bowen's
Virtual Museum of Computing for a wealth of online resources
- Timelines for the history of computing can be found at:
- Week 2
- Some links to information about
John von
Neumann
- Andrew Hodges' Turing home
page
- Week 3
- On
Charles Babbage as an economic thinker, including an online text of
On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures
- Another site on Charles
Babbage
- Simon Schaffer has written on the connections between Babbage's Difference
Engine and his Economy of Machinery in
"Babbage's Intelligence: Calculating Engines and the Factory
System"
- Week 4
- The program for MIT's
50th
Anniversary celebration of Bush's "As We May Think"
- Papers and materials from the
Bush
Symposium at Brown
- The
Electronic Labyrinth is devoted to hypertext technology and includes
links to Bush, Engelbart, Nelson, and others.
- Week 5
- The MIT Systems
Dynamics Group, founded by Jay Forrester