Congratulations to all involved. This issue represents about 110% absolutely new information--that is hard to accomplish. Jim
We are pleased to announce this special issue.
David Hemmendinger, Editor
Histories of Computing in Oceania, Guest Editors' Introduction,
Sebastian K. Boell and Janet M. Toland
The Modern History of ICT in Oceania-PEACESAT and USPNet
Rieko Hayakawa, Robert Underwood, and Jennifer Anson
Computing Technologies for Resilience, Sustainability, and Resistance
Petera Hudson, Hemi Whaanga, and Te Taka Keegan
Educational Computers in New Zealand Schools: 1977 to 1983
Alastair Nisbet
Trevor Pearcey and the Development of CSIRAC-An Australian First-Generation
Computer, Barbara Ainsworth
Biography:
Monte Sala's Cryptographic Achievements, T. Alex Reid
Anecdotes:
Computer Networking Initiatives in One of the World's Remote Cities
T. Alex Reid
Tracing the Origins of the First Soviet Computers, Beyond Legends
Giovanni A. Cignoni and Sergei P. Prokhorov
Events and Sightings:
Opening of the Bob Doran Museum of Computing
Brian E. Carpenter
Capturing an Oral History of Computing in Australia,
Sebastian K. Boell and Peter Thorne
Documenting CAD History With CHM's Software Industry Special
Interest Group David Brock
Interview:
Oral History of Rodney Brooks, Hansen Hsu
Think Piece:
Dissecting Data: History of Data as History of the Body, Andrew S. Lea
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