[SIGCIS-Members] The Communicators

[Dave Foster]

Evan,

The compendium Faster Than Thought: A Symposium on Digital Computing Machines, BV Bowden, ed. first published in 1953 is valuable. I've also found some good info both pre- and post-1965 in Datamation that address many of the real and perceived problems of the times. And even though published at the end of the 1960s, Jean Sammet's Programming Languages has some excellent coverage of pre-1965 technologies and activities.

Regards,

Dave

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Good suggestion! Science fiction often tells us about the present, sometimes more than the future.

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From: Adam Hyland <achyland at uw.edu>
Date: 3/17/22 11:15 AM (GMT-05:00)
To: Jean Graham <jean.graham at stonybrook.edu>
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Subject: Re: [SIGCIS-Members] The Communicators

I wouldn't know how to begin writing about this, but Asimov comes immediately to mind for pre 1965.

On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 8:04 AM Jean Graham <jean.graham at stonybrook.edu<mailto:jean.graham at stonybrook.edu>> wrote:
Definitely the people who wrote hacker zines and bulletin boards, not least because they combined a political point of view with their technical writing

On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 10:58 AM Evan Koblentz <evank at njit.edu<mailto:evank at njit.edu>> wrote:

I’m interested in a new-to-me research angle: the people who changed computing by writing about it.



Lovelace comes to mind. So do Vannevar Bush and Edmund Berkeley.



  1.  Who else should I consider from prior to 1965? (I have the microcomputer generation covered.)
  2.  Are there existing papers on this subject?



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