[SIGCIS-Members] A new Scandinavian collection on IT history is out!

[Petri Paju]

Hi all,

Springer (Boston) just now published the second Nordic IT history 
conference book:

Impagliazzo, John & Järvi, Timo & Paju, Petri (Eds.): History of Nordic 
Computing 2. Second IFIP WG 9.7 Conference, HiNC2, Turku, Finland, 
August 21-23, 2007, Revised Selected Papers. IFIP Advances in 
Information and Communication Technology 303. Springer, Boston 2009.

http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-3-642-03756-6.
(there's a link to an electronic version, too)

About the content:
the meeting focus was on applications and the years 1960-1980.  Authors 
include IT professionals, historians, and also some others, such as 
sociologists and a language specialist.

Here are some contributions (of which there are over 30 in total):

“Organizing the History of Computing
‘Lessons Learned’ at the Charles Babbage Institute” (by Thomas J. Misa)

“Provisioning of Safe Train Control in Nordic Countries”  (Harold ‘Bud’ 
Lawson)

“Computing and Computer Science in the Soviet Baltic Region” (Enn Tyugu)


“FORTRAN II – The First Computer Language Used at the University of 
Iceland”  (Oddur Benediktsson)

“Computerized Typesetting and Other New Applications in a Publishing 
House” (Timo Järvi)

“Lexicography for IBM : Developing Norwegian Linguistic Resources in the 
1980s” (Jan Engh)


Best regards,

Petri


PS. A next conference, HiNC3, is also planned for October 2010 in 
Stockholm, Sweden. More information to come on that later.


-- 
Petri Paju, FT, tutkija, Turun yliopisto
-- Ph.D. Researcher, Univ. of Turku
http://users.utu.fi/petpaju/