[SIGCIS-Members] 1997 IEEE Conference on the History of Computing

[Brian Randell]

Dear Alan, James, Atsushi:

Thanks for your quick responses to my query.

For the record, I have now made available the text of the paper I actually gave at the Williamsburg conference available at:

  http://homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/brian.randell/PapersInProceedings/Williamsburg1997.pdf

Cheers

Brian
 

> On 13 Jan 2017, at 14:38, David Alan Grier <grier at email.gwu.edu> wrote:
> 
> Brian
> 	I don’t believe that there were any formal proceedings - there are certainly none in the IEEE library.  I was never solicited for the 0 to 1 book.  My paper was published in the Annals.  I believe that Luanne Johnson’s paper had the same outcome.  
> 
> David


>> On Jan 13, 2017, at 8:22 AM, Brian Randell <brian.randell at newcastle.ac.uk> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi:
>> 
>> Am I right in understanding that this conference did not result in any published formal conference proceedings as such, though the book "From 0 to 1: an authoritative history of modern computing by Akera Atsushi and Frederik Nebeker” resulted from the conference five years later.
>> 
>> My records indicate that the paper I gave at the 1997 conference ("The Development of Computers and their History”) was at the request of the editors of "From 0 to 1” replaced by a very different paper “The New Electronic Technology”. (I have a copy of the former paper to hand, but not the latter.) 
>> 
>> Have the actual papers delivered at the conference ever been published, i.e., were any actual conference proceedings ever issued?
>> 
>> Cheers
>> 
>> Brian Randell
>> 
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