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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_MailEndCompose"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Possibly one of the earliest courses on the history of computing was taught by Prof. Walter A. Sedelow, at the University of Kansas,
ca. 1975-1976. </span></a><a href="http://www.kshs.org/archives/276982"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">http://www.kshs.org/archives/276982</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">.
I took the course, along with about five or six others, including Bernie Williams, whose article (co-authored with Bill Aspray) on “Arming American Scientists” is one of the most-cited of Annals papers. The course readings included Goldstine’s book (it had
just appeared!), a collection of readings “Perspectives on the Computer Revolution” edited by Zenon W. Pylyshyn, and “Social Issues in Computing” by Kelly Gotlieb of the U. Toronto, whom some of you probably knew.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I wish I had my course notes, but they disappeared years ago. I do recall Prof. Sedelow lecturing at length about J.C.R.
Licklider, BBN, and SDC—topics which were hardly common in the mid-1970s. It may be possible to find a record of the course in the University of Kansas archives.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">BTW, Bernie wrote an excellent dissertation, “Computing with Electricity, 1935-1945,” which unfortunately was never
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