Hi all, I’m looking for a text (book, article, a few chapters) that tells the history of computers, starting from Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace’s Analytical Engine to present days. This is for a 200-level undergraduate class, so I’m trying to summarize the topic as much as possible, to give students a general overview in a couple of classes. Any suggestions? _________________________ Adriana de Souza e Silva University Faculty Scholar Professor Department of Communication http://www.souzaesilva.com
Yes, there is a good 1980s book from MIT Press that I like for this. the Computer Comes of Age The People, the Hardware, and the Software By René Moreau Translated by J. Howlett https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/computer-comes-age On Fri, Mar 22, 2019, 15:11 Adriana de Souza e Silva, <aasilva@ncsu.edu> wrote:
Hi all,
I’m looking for a text (book, article, a few chapters) that tells the history of computers, starting from Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace’s Analytical Engine to present days. This is for a 200-level undergraduate class, so I’m trying to summarize the topic as much as possible, to give students a general overview in a couple of classes.
Any suggestions? _________________________ Adriana de Souza e Silva University Faculty Scholar Professor Department of Communication http://www.souzaesilva.com
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Try Computer: A History of the Information Machine by Martin Campbell-Kelly and William Aspray On Fri, Mar 22, 2019, 3:17 PM Peter Timusk <peterotimusk@gmail.com> wrote:
Yes, there is a good 1980s book from MIT Press that I like for this.
the Computer Comes of Age The People, the Hardware, and the Software
By René Moreau
Translated by J. Howlett
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/computer-comes-age
On Fri, Mar 22, 2019, 15:11 Adriana de Souza e Silva, <aasilva@ncsu.edu> wrote:
Hi all,
I’m looking for a text (book, article, a few chapters) that tells the history of computers, starting from Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace’s Analytical Engine to present days. This is for a 200-level undergraduate class, so I’m trying to summarize the topic as much as possible, to give students a general overview in a couple of classes.
Any suggestions? _________________________ Adriana de Souza e Silva University Faculty Scholar Professor Department of Communication http://www.souzaesilva.com
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The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Information:_A_History,_a_Theory,_a_Flood> James Gleick For sure, the most important book/audiobook I have ever read (about 6 times). ~Stu On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 3:32 PM Meg Leta Jones <Meg.Jones@georgetown.edu> wrote:
Try Computer: A History of the Information Machine by Martin Campbell-Kelly and William Aspray
On Fri, Mar 22, 2019, 3:17 PM Peter Timusk <peterotimusk@gmail.com> wrote:
Yes, there is a good 1980s book from MIT Press that I like for this.
the Computer Comes of Age The People, the Hardware, and the Software
By René Moreau
Translated by J. Howlett
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/computer-comes-age
On Fri, Mar 22, 2019, 15:11 Adriana de Souza e Silva, <aasilva@ncsu.edu> wrote:
Hi all,
I’m looking for a text (book, article, a few chapters) that tells the history of computers, starting from Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace’s Analytical Engine to present days. This is for a 200-level undergraduate class, so I’m trying to summarize the topic as much as possible, to give students a general overview in a couple of classes.
Any suggestions? _________________________ Adriana de Souza e Silva University Faculty Scholar Professor Department of Communication http://www.souzaesilva.com
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Hello, this one has a sociological perspective on the history of computers: Agar, J. (2003), The government machine: A revolutionary history of the computer, MIT press Xanat V. Meza Ph.D. candidate - Kansei, Behavioral and Brain SciencesUniversity of Tsukuba M.A. Media and Communication Yeungnam University B.D. Graphic Communication Design Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana El sábado, 23 de marzo de 2019 4:36:53 a. m. GMT+9, Shulman, Stu <stu@texifter.com> escribió: The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Information:_A_History,_a_Theory,_a_Flood> James Gleick For sure, the most important book/audiobook I have ever read (about 6 times). ~Stu On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 3:32 PM Meg Leta Jones <Meg.Jones@georgetown.edu> wrote:
Try Computer: A History of the Information Machine by Martin Campbell-Kelly and William Aspray
On Fri, Mar 22, 2019, 3:17 PM Peter Timusk <peterotimusk@gmail.com> wrote:
Yes, there is a good 1980s book from MIT Press that I like for this.
the Computer Comes of Age The People, the Hardware, and the Software
By René Moreau
Translated by J. Howlett
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/computer-comes-age
On Fri, Mar 22, 2019, 15:11 Adriana de Souza e Silva, <aasilva@ncsu.edu> wrote:
Hi all,
I’m looking for a text (book, article, a few chapters) that tells the history of computers, starting from Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace’s Analytical Engine to present days. This is for a 200-level undergraduate class, so I’m trying to summarize the topic as much as possible, to give students a general overview in a couple of classes.
Any suggestions? _________________________ Adriana de Souza e Silva University Faculty Scholar Professor Department of Communication http://www.souzaesilva.com
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I am just reading Tom Wheeler's From Gutenberg to Google <https://books.google.com/books/about/From_Gutenberg_to_Google.html?id=rd57F8IjyF0C&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button#v=onepage&q&f=false>. While a history of networks and their impact, rather than computing, it does cover many aspects, and is extremely well written. Might work as "more reading". joly On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 8:32 PM Xanat Meza via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Hello, this one has a sociological perspective on the history of computers: Agar, J. (2003), The government machine: A revolutionary history of the computer, MIT press Xanat V. Meza
Ph.D. candidate - Kansei, Behavioral and Brain SciencesUniversity of Tsukuba M.A. Media and Communication Yeungnam University B.D. Graphic Communication Design Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana
El sábado, 23 de marzo de 2019 4:36:53 a. m. GMT+9, Shulman, Stu < stu@texifter.com> escribió:
The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Information:_A_History,_a_Theory,_a_Flood
James Gleick
For sure, the most important book/audiobook I have ever read (about 6 times).
~Stu
On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 3:32 PM Meg Leta Jones <Meg.Jones@georgetown.edu> wrote:
Try Computer: A History of the Information Machine by Martin Campbell-Kelly and William Aspray
On Fri, Mar 22, 2019, 3:17 PM Peter Timusk <peterotimusk@gmail.com> wrote:
Yes, there is a good 1980s book from MIT Press that I like for this.
the Computer Comes of Age The People, the Hardware, and the Software
By René Moreau
Translated by J. Howlett
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/computer-comes-age
On Fri, Mar 22, 2019, 15:11 Adriana de Souza e Silva, < aasilva@ncsu.edu> wrote:
Hi all,
I’m looking for a text (book, article, a few chapters) that tells the history of computers, starting from Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace’s Analytical Engine to present days. This is for a 200-level undergraduate class, so I’m trying to summarize the topic as much as possible, to give students a general overview in a couple of classes.
Any suggestions? _________________________ Adriana de Souza e Silva University Faculty Scholar Professor Department of Communication http://www.souzaesilva.com
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I just realised I linked to the wrong book there. Try https://www.amazon.com/Gutenberg-Google-History-Our-Future/dp/0815735324 On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 6:27 AM Joly MacFie <joly@punkcast.com> wrote:
I am just reading Tom Wheeler's From Gutenberg to Google <https://books.google.com/books/about/From_Gutenberg_to_Google.html?id=rd57F8IjyF0C&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button#v=onepage&q&f=false>. While a history of networks and their impact, rather than computing, it does cover many aspects, and is extremely well written.
Might work as "more reading".
joly
On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 8:32 PM Xanat Meza via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Hello, this one has a sociological perspective on the history of computers: Agar, J. (2003), The government machine: A revolutionary history of the computer, MIT press Xanat V. Meza
Ph.D. candidate - Kansei, Behavioral and Brain SciencesUniversity of Tsukuba M.A. Media and Communication Yeungnam University B.D. Graphic Communication Design Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana
El sábado, 23 de marzo de 2019 4:36:53 a. m. GMT+9, Shulman, Stu < stu@texifter.com> escribió:
The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Information:_A_History,_a_Theory,_a_Flood
James Gleick
For sure, the most important book/audiobook I have ever read (about 6 times).
~Stu
On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 3:32 PM Meg Leta Jones <Meg.Jones@georgetown.edu> wrote:
Try Computer: A History of the Information Machine by Martin Campbell-Kelly and William Aspray
On Fri, Mar 22, 2019, 3:17 PM Peter Timusk <peterotimusk@gmail.com> wrote:
Yes, there is a good 1980s book from MIT Press that I like for this.
the Computer Comes of Age The People, the Hardware, and the Software
By René Moreau
Translated by J. Howlett
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/computer-comes-age
On Fri, Mar 22, 2019, 15:11 Adriana de Souza e Silva, < aasilva@ncsu.edu> wrote:
Hi all,
I’m looking for a text (book, article, a few chapters) that tells the history of computers, starting from Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace’s Analytical Engine to present days. This is for a 200-level undergraduate class, so I’m trying to summarize the topic as much as possible, to give students a general overview in a couple of classes.
Any suggestions? _________________________ Adriana de Souza e Silva University Faculty Scholar Professor Department of Communication http://www.souzaesilva.com
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The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson (2015-10-06) Not a textbook but a good read. On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 8:11 PM Adriana de Souza e Silva <aasilva@ncsu.edu> wrote:
Hi all,
I’m looking for a text (book, article, a few chapters) that tells the history of computers, starting from Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace’s Analytical Engine to present days. This is for a 200-level undergraduate class, so I’m trying to summarize the topic as much as possible, to give students a general overview in a couple of classes.
Any suggestions? _________________________ Adriana de Souza e Silva University Faculty Scholar Professor Department of Communication http://www.souzaesilva.com
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For the opposite story, try Yasha Levine's "Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet". https://surveillancevalley.com After reading it, I can't look at a title mentioning "Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks" without thinking that that book must be totally buying into the mythology and perpetuating fictions. I'd love to hear what people on this list think about Levine's book - I thought I more or less knew my internet history, but he tells a rather different version. I mean, obviously I knew about DARPA, but Levine has EVERYTHING controlled by DARPA, even the "hackers, geniuses and geeks" and the counterculture stuff, and the commercialization of the 1990s and so on. The book doesn't seem to have any academic reviews, or at least my search only turns up trade press reviews. Does his dystopic rendition of the history of the internet as almost completely controlled by the military and its surveillance and counterinsurgency strategies hold up? Jill The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson (2015-10-06) Not a textbook but a good read. On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 8:11 PM Adriana de Souza e Silva <aasilva@ncsu.edu> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I’m looking for a text (book, article, a few chapters) that tells the history of computers, starting from Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace’s Analytical Engine to present days. This is for a 200-level undergraduate class, so I’m trying to summarize the topic as much as possible, to give students a general overview in a couple of classes. > > Any suggestions? > _________________________ > Adriana de Souza e Silva > University Faculty Scholar > Professor > Department of Communication > http://www.souzaesilva.com > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/
A couple of things - there are texts also on the various forms of the abacus - which was the main calculator for maybe a thousand years in a number of places; that would be useful, since it's essentially a noisy digital object. Also highly recommend vis-a-vis the Internet, Peter Salus' Casting the Net: From Arpanet to Internet and beyond... forward by Vincent Cerf - Addison-Wesley 1995; this contains highly-annotated material on the technology but also the culture of the early Net; for me, it's been a primary source - - Alan
I?m looking for a text (book, article, a few chapters) that tells the history of computers, starting from Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace?s Analytical Engine to present days. This is for a 200-level undergraduate class, so I?m trying to summarize the topic as much as possible, to give students a general overview in a couple of classes.
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The articles in the journal "Internet histories" is also very relevant: https://www.tandfonline.com/action/showMostReadArticles?journalCode=rint20 On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 10:08 PM Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com> wrote:
A couple of things - there are texts also on the various forms of the abacus - which was the main calculator for maybe a thousand years in a number of places; that would be useful, since it's essentially a noisy digital object. Also highly recommend vis-a-vis the Internet, Peter Salus' Casting the Net: From Arpanet to Internet and beyond... forward by Vincent Cerf - Addison-Wesley 1995; this contains highly-annotated material on the technology but also the culture of the early Net; for me, it's been a primary source -
- Alan
I?m looking for a text (book, article, a few chapters) that tells the history of computers, starting from Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace?s Analytical Engine to present days. This is for a 200-level undergraduate class, so I?m trying to summarize the topic as much as possible, to give students a general overview in a couple of classes.
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Bob Johnstone, Never Mind the Laptops <https://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/bookdetail.aspx?bookid=SKU-000019395> is about laptop programs in schools, and he writes extensively about the history of computers and other "learning machines" in schools from the late 50s through the early 2000s. *Cristina Lopez, Ph.D.* Arts & Humanities Technologies and Projects Support Liberal Arts Technologies and Innovation Services | LATIS College of Liberal Arts | University of Minnesota clopez@umn.edu | 612-626-6639 | calendar <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=clopez%40umn.edu&ctz=America/Chicago> | latis.umn.edu <http://claoit.umn.edu/> On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 5:59 AM C.H. <chainsawtiney@gmail.com> wrote:
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson (2015-10-06)
Not a textbook but a good read.
On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 8:11 PM Adriana de Souza e Silva <aasilva@ncsu.edu> wrote:
Hi all,
I’m looking for a text (book, article, a few chapters) that tells the
history of computers, starting from Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace’s Analytical Engine to present days. This is for a 200-level undergraduate class, so I’m trying to summarize the topic as much as possible, to give students a general overview in a couple of classes.
Any suggestions? _________________________ Adriana de Souza e Silva University Faculty Scholar Professor Department of Communication http://www.souzaesilva.com
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These four: Janet Abbate 2000 - https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/inventing-internet Dave Clark 2019 - https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/designing-internet Charlton McIlwain forthcoming - Black Software*: The Internet & Racial Justice, From the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter*. Mar Hicks 2017 - https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/programmed-inequality On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 3:27 PM Cristina Lopez <clopez@umn.edu> wrote:
Bob Johnstone, Never Mind the Laptops <https://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/bookdetail.aspx?bookid=SKU-000019395> is about laptop programs in schools, and he writes extensively about the history of computers and other "learning machines" in schools from the late 50s through the early 2000s.
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On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 5:59 AM C.H. <chainsawtiney@gmail.com> wrote:
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson (2015-10-06)
Not a textbook but a good read.
On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 8:11 PM Adriana de Souza e Silva <aasilva@ncsu.edu> wrote:
Hi all,
I’m looking for a text (book, article, a few chapters) that tells the
history of computers, starting from Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace’s Analytical Engine to present days. This is for a 200-level undergraduate class, so I’m trying to summarize the topic as much as possible, to give students a general overview in a couple of classes.
Any suggestions? _________________________ Adriana de Souza e Silva University Faculty Scholar Professor Department of Communication http://www.souzaesilva.com
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Hi all, this has been a really interesting thread to watch unfold (as usual): I've very much appreciated the various suggestions to the original query and now have a much richer reading list than before. Perhaps more of an aside - and certainly beyond the remit of the original query, but if I were teaching such a course, I think I'd also want to include (which would also likely bump it up a bit in the academic curriculum?): 0) the proviso that my first hands-on computer was an analogue computer (sometime in the early 1960s) and as someone deeply immersed in mathematics and astronomy - and so my original senses of computers and computation is prior to and somewhat independent of the now predominant "digital" branch (there's still the analogue in there, but let's save that little story for another rainy day). 1) a look at the Sky-disk of Nebra - no moving parts, but at least as some astronomers have interpreted it, a "device" for coordinating the agricultural planting / harvesting seasons by way of keeping track of the lunar vs. solar cycles and marking the summer and winter solstices; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebra_sky_disk 2) some information about the discovery and various contemporary (lego / 3d printed) recreations of the antikythera mechanism (ca. 2100 years old), a quite sophisticated analogue computer in the earlier senses; (lots of good material online, including some fascinating videos on how contemporary mathematicians and engineers have made replicas) 3) Something about the dreams of calculation from mathematician / philosophers such as Leibniz and Kepler - in order to culturally-historically locate much of the motivation for the development of such devices as grounded in the Pythagorean dream / "religion" of understanding numbers and numerical relations as the truth of the universe - a truth with urgently salvific significance as this knowledge would then allow us to properly attune our lives to "the harmony of the spheres" and thereby attain some sort of "mind-meld" therewith ("God," in a non-theistic sense, for Aristotle and perhaps Plato); [another aside: while Kepler completed the musical notation for the harmony of spheres based on his new-found mathematical model of the solar system as based on elliptical rather than circular orbits - it was only in the 1970s with the advent of electronic computers and synthesizers that the music could be "played". I'm astonished that this realization of the 2600-year-old Pythagorean dream is not much more well known?] 4) the contributions of Douglas Engelbart, famous for screen-based interfaces and "the mouse" - again, for the sake of locating at least some portion of more contemporary motives in highly humanistic (if not forthrightly "classical," as in "3" above) approaches to computation as human augmentation and the broader "liberation technology" sensibilities of the 1960s-1980s (Stuart Brand et al.) - but more originally rooted in the Romantic-Enlightenment coalescensces documented by Mark Coeckelbergh in his _New Romantic Cyborgs_ (MIT, 2017). Not for the sake of Adriana de Souza e Silva's fortunate undergraduates but perhaps for the sake of a more expansive approach to the history of computing - what am I missing still? again, many thanks and all best, - charles ess On 22/03/2019 20:11, Adriana de Souza e Silva wrote:
Hi all,
I’m looking for a text (book, article, a few chapters) that tells the history of computers, starting from Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace’s Analytical Engine to present days. This is for a 200-level undergraduate class, so I’m trying to summarize the topic as much as possible, to give students a general overview in a couple of classes.
Any suggestions? _________________________ Adriana de Souza e Silva University Faculty Scholar Professor Department of Communication http://www.souzaesilva.com
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Speaking of Douglas Englebart, for that part of the history of computing I really enjoyed sociologist Theirry Bardini's excellent biography of Englebart, *Bootstrapping - *although I probably wouldn't have attempted to cover it in a 200-level class when I was teaching, so apologies to Adriana for further hijacking the thread! But maybe it would be of interest to others on the list. Particularly interesting for its coverage of the many different input devices that Englebart invented (chord keyset etc.) and for discussions of how computer users were "invented." On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 3:10 AM Charles M. Ess <c.m.ess@media.uio.no> wrote:
Hi all,
this has been a really interesting thread to watch unfold (as usual): I've very much appreciated the various suggestions to the original query and now have a much richer reading list than before.
Perhaps more of an aside - and certainly beyond the remit of the original query, but if I were teaching such a course, I think I'd also want to include (which would also likely bump it up a bit in the academic curriculum?):
0) the proviso that my first hands-on computer was an analogue computer (sometime in the early 1960s) and as someone deeply immersed in mathematics and astronomy - and so my original senses of computers and computation is prior to and somewhat independent of the now predominant "digital" branch (there's still the analogue in there, but let's save that little story for another rainy day).
1) a look at the Sky-disk of Nebra - no moving parts, but at least as some astronomers have interpreted it, a "device" for coordinating the agricultural planting / harvesting seasons by way of keeping track of the lunar vs. solar cycles and marking the summer and winter solstices;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebra_sky_disk
2) some information about the discovery and various contemporary (lego / 3d printed) recreations of the antikythera mechanism (ca. 2100 years old), a quite sophisticated analogue computer in the earlier senses; (lots of good material online, including some fascinating videos on how contemporary mathematicians and engineers have made replicas)
3) Something about the dreams of calculation from mathematician / philosophers such as Leibniz and Kepler - in order to culturally-historically locate much of the motivation for the development of such devices as grounded in the Pythagorean dream / "religion" of understanding numbers and numerical relations as the truth of the universe - a truth with urgently salvific significance as this knowledge would then allow us to properly attune our lives to "the harmony of the spheres" and thereby attain some sort of "mind-meld" therewith ("God," in a non-theistic sense, for Aristotle and perhaps Plato); [another aside: while Kepler completed the musical notation for the harmony of spheres based on his new-found mathematical model of the solar system as based on elliptical rather than circular orbits - it was only in the 1970s with the advent of electronic computers and synthesizers that the music could be "played". I'm astonished that this realization of the 2600-year-old Pythagorean dream is not much more well known?]
4) the contributions of Douglas Engelbart, famous for screen-based interfaces and "the mouse" - again, for the sake of locating at least some portion of more contemporary motives in highly humanistic (if not forthrightly "classical," as in "3" above) approaches to computation as human augmentation and the broader "liberation technology" sensibilities of the 1960s-1980s (Stuart Brand et al.) - but more originally rooted in the Romantic-Enlightenment coalescensces documented by Mark Coeckelbergh in his _New Romantic Cyborgs_ (MIT, 2017).
Not for the sake of Adriana de Souza e Silva's fortunate undergraduates but perhaps for the sake of a more expansive approach to the history of computing - what am I missing still?
again, many thanks and all best, - charles ess
On 22/03/2019 20:11, Adriana de Souza e Silva wrote:
Hi all,
I’m looking for a text (book, article, a few chapters) that tells the history of computers, starting from Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace’s Analytical Engine to present days. This is for a 200-level undergraduate class, so I’m trying to summarize the topic as much as possible, to give students a general overview in a couple of classes.
Any suggestions? _________________________ Adriana de Souza e Silva University Faculty Scholar Professor Department of Communication http://www.souzaesilva.com
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Hi- Not having followed this thread thoroughly, the following suggestions may be redundant with what has already been shared. Thank you to Charles Ess for providing a succinct summary of the posts. It was reassuring wrt the depth of the responses that, e.g., Derek J. de Sola Price's discovery of the 2,000+ year old Antikythera computer as well as the abacus were both in the mix. On the off chance that these notes are fresh news, here are a few additional comments: - As much as anything, the history of computers is bound up with the history of mathematics and, in particular, the history of mathematical notation. Marcus du Sautoy's BBC documentary four-part series, *The Story of Maths*, provides an accessible, excellent overview of this history. For instance, among his first observations is that the Egyptians figured out binary numbers thousands of years before Leibniz. Then there's the history and origins of the number zero. But there's much more to his doc: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJbChZrXDJE - Somewhat more academic in its history of mathematical notation but interesting nonetheless is Robin Wilson's book,* Euler’s Pioneering Equation: 'The Most Beautiful Theorem in Mathematics'. *Wilson tells the backstory of each of the five constants in Euler's equation and, in so doing, develops a thorough history of mathematical notation. He summarizes his book in this Youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VL2fl1_wB8 - Another interesting factoid is that, as its been argued, the history of network theory began in 1736 with Leonhard Euler's *Seven Bridges of Konigsberg* problem which laid the foundations for graph theory and topology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Bridges_of_K%C3%B6nigsberg - Here's a video on the history of the Internet from someone who was there from the beginning: https://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2019-02-05/history-internet - Werner Herzog's idiosyncratic 2016 documentary film, *Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World*, is a film artist's existential take on the history of the Internet. While all too easily dismissed, it has unique footage of the Stanford lab where the first peer-to-peer connection was made between computers way back in the dark ages of the 60s and 70s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lo_and_Behold,_Reveries_of_the_Connected_World Hope this helps, Thomas Ball On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 7:57 AM Jane Gruning <jane.gru@gmail.com> wrote:
Speaking of Douglas Englebart, for that part of the history of computing I really enjoyed sociologist Theirry Bardini's excellent biography of Englebart, *Bootstrapping - *although I probably wouldn't have attempted to cover it in a 200-level class when I was teaching, so apologies to Adriana for further hijacking the thread! But maybe it would be of interest to others on the list. Particularly interesting for its coverage of the many different input devices that Englebart invented (chord keyset etc.) and for discussions of how computer users were "invented."
On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 3:10 AM Charles M. Ess <c.m.ess@media.uio.no> wrote:
Hi all,
this has been a really interesting thread to watch unfold (as usual): I've very much appreciated the various suggestions to the original query and now have a much richer reading list than before.
Perhaps more of an aside - and certainly beyond the remit of the original query, but if I were teaching such a course, I think I'd also want to include (which would also likely bump it up a bit in the academic curriculum?):
0) the proviso that my first hands-on computer was an analogue computer (sometime in the early 1960s) and as someone deeply immersed in mathematics and astronomy - and so my original senses of computers and computation is prior to and somewhat independent of the now predominant "digital" branch (there's still the analogue in there, but let's save that little story for another rainy day).
1) a look at the Sky-disk of Nebra - no moving parts, but at least as some astronomers have interpreted it, a "device" for coordinating the agricultural planting / harvesting seasons by way of keeping track of the lunar vs. solar cycles and marking the summer and winter solstices;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebra_sky_disk
2) some information about the discovery and various contemporary (lego / 3d printed) recreations of the antikythera mechanism (ca. 2100 years old), a quite sophisticated analogue computer in the earlier senses; (lots of good material online, including some fascinating videos on how contemporary mathematicians and engineers have made replicas)
3) Something about the dreams of calculation from mathematician / philosophers such as Leibniz and Kepler - in order to culturally-historically locate much of the motivation for the development of such devices as grounded in the Pythagorean dream / "religion" of understanding numbers and numerical relations as the truth of the universe - a truth with urgently salvific significance as this knowledge would then allow us to properly attune our lives to "the harmony of the spheres" and thereby attain some sort of "mind-meld" therewith ("God," in a non-theistic sense, for Aristotle and perhaps Plato); [another aside: while Kepler completed the musical notation for the harmony of spheres based on his new-found mathematical model of the solar system as based on elliptical rather than circular orbits - it was only in the 1970s with the advent of electronic computers and synthesizers that the music could be "played". I'm astonished that this realization of the 2600-year-old Pythagorean dream is not much more well known?]
4) the contributions of Douglas Engelbart, famous for screen-based interfaces and "the mouse" - again, for the sake of locating at least some portion of more contemporary motives in highly humanistic (if not forthrightly "classical," as in "3" above) approaches to computation as human augmentation and the broader "liberation technology" sensibilities of the 1960s-1980s (Stuart Brand et al.) - but more originally rooted in the Romantic-Enlightenment coalescensces documented by Mark Coeckelbergh in his _New Romantic Cyborgs_ (MIT, 2017).
Not for the sake of Adriana de Souza e Silva's fortunate undergraduates but perhaps for the sake of a more expansive approach to the history of computing - what am I missing still?
again, many thanks and all best, - charles ess
On 22/03/2019 20:11, Adriana de Souza e Silva wrote:
Hi all,
I’m looking for a text (book, article, a few chapters) that tells the history of computers, starting from Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace’s Analytical Engine to present days. This is for a 200-level undergraduate class, so I’m trying to summarize the topic as much as possible, to give students a general overview in a couple of classes.
Any suggestions? _________________________ Adriana de Souza e Silva University Faculty Scholar Professor Department of Communication http://www.souzaesilva.com
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For those still interested (and not exhausted!) SIGCIS maintains a syllabus repository at https://www.sigcis.org/syllabi. If you’re not familiar with SIGCIS, it’s the Special Interest Group for Computers, Information & Society - hosted by the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT). New contributions to the syllabus repository are always welcome, and so are discussions/questions for the mailing list: information at https://www.sigcis.org/about_summary All the best, Andy Russell SIGCIS Chair
On Mar 26, 2019, at 4:10 AM, Charles M. Ess <c.m.ess@media.uio.no> wrote:
Not for the sake of Adriana de Souza e Silva's fortunate undergraduates but perhaps for the sake of a more expansive approach to the history of computing - what am I missing still?
again, many thanks and all best, - charles ess
participants (15)
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Adriana de Souza e Silva -
Alan Sondheim -
Andrew Russell -
C.H. -
Charles M. Ess -
Corinne Cath -
Cristina Lopez -
Jane Gruning -
Jill Walker Rettberg -
Joly MacFie -
Meg Leta Jones -
Peter Timusk -
Shulman, Stu -
Thomas Ball -
Xanat Meza