Re: [SIGCIS-Members] The Communicators

18 Mar 2022

      There were many influential publications outside the English-speaking world. One was even translated in Russian:
Tracking Down a Seminal Work on
Computer Construction – in Russian | blog@CACM | Communications of the ACM
October 23, 2020
Perhaps also of interest:
Leonardo Torres Quevedo,
a Brilliant but Forgotten Spanish Inventor | blog@CACM | Communications of the
ACM
March 7, 2022

Promoting Economic
Development through Technical Innovation | blog@CACM | Communications of the
ACM
February 14, 2022
The Calculating Machine
from the Concentration Camp | blog@CACM | Communications of the ACM
January 24, 2022
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We(MIT Museum) recently acquired some of Edmund Berkeley’s games (I’ve attached a picture of Brainiac)  from the estate of his Berkely’s son (most of the papers went to the Babbage Institute that had already acquired materials from Berkeley.). One thing that I learned is that Patrick McGovern’s (MIT, 1959) first job was writing for Berkeley’s Computers & Automation magazine.  

The folks at Baker Library (or maybe people on this list) will know when the first B-School case studies about computers and computing were introduced into the curriculum.  

Debbie Douglas

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From: Members <members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org> on behalf of Lee Vinsel <lee.vinsel@gmail.com>
Date: Thursday, March 17, 2022 at 4:12 PM
To: Evan Koblentz <evank@njit.edu>
Cc: members@SIGCIS.org <members@sigcis.org>
Subject: Re: [SIGCIS-Members] The Communicators

Evan et al,

This is a great topic! I think Patrick McCray is traveling at the moment, but he is currently at work on a book that examines the history of computing via a number of books on computing. His argument is that writing on computing shaped how people experienced and thought about computing. His chapters are organized around a set number of books (can't remember the number), and his narrative covers the post-WWII period up to about 2000. As he examines this set of books, he also explores other books/writings, the publishing industry (and the role computers played in publishing), the rise of "tech journalism," and many other topics. I'm sure he would love to chat about what he's up to. 

Lee

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.

 Who else should I consider from prior to 1965? (I have the microcomputer generation covered.)

 Are there existing papers on this subject?

Evan A Koblentz
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 Adjunct Instructor, Ying Wu College of Computing
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