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@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?

 

Evan A Koblentz Staff Writer, Office of Strategic Communications Adjunct Instructor, Ying Wu College of Computing evan.a.koblentz@njit.edu • (973) 596-3065 https://web.njit.edu/~evank @TechnicallyEvan

 

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