Histories of Computing in Eastern Europe : IFIP WG 9.7 International Workshop on the History of Computing, HC 2018, Held at the 24th IFIP World Computer Congress, WCC 2018, Poznań, Poland, September 19–21, 2018, Revised Selected Papers

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the IFIP WG 9.7 International Workshop on the History of Computing, HC 2018, Held at the 24th IFIP World Computer Congress, WCC 2018, in Poznań, Poland, in September 2018. The 16 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 20 submissions. They reflect academic approaches to history along with the expertise of museum and other public history professionals as well as the experience of computing and information science practitioners. The papers are organized in the following sections: Eastern Europe, Poland, Soviet Union, CoCom and Comecon; analog computing, and public history. Front Matter ....Pages i-x Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Armenian Computers: First Generations (Sergey B. Oganjanyan, Valery V. Shilov, Sergey A. Silantiev)....Pages 3-15 The Emergence of Computing Disciplines in Communist Czechoslovakia: What’s in a (Sovietized) Name? (Michal Doležel, Zdeněk Smutný)....Pages 16-39 László Kalmár and the First University-Level Programming and Computer Science Training in Hungary (Máté Szabó)....Pages 40-68 Front Matter ....Pages 69-69 Early Computer Development in Poland (Marek Hołyński)....Pages 71-86 The Long Road Toward the Rejewski-Różycki-Zygalski Cipher Center in Poznań (Marek Grajek)....Pages 87-96 Front Matter ....Pages 97-97 Anatoly Kitov and Victor Glushkov: Pioneers of Russian Digital Economy and Informatics (Olga V. Kitova, Vladimir A. Kitov)....Pages 99-117 On the History of Gosplan, the Main Computer Center of the State Planning Committee of the USSR (Vladimir A. Kitov)....Pages 118-126 Main Teleprocessing Monitors for Third-Generation Computers in the USSR (Vladimir A. Kitov)....Pages 127-135 Front Matter ....Pages 137-137 Socialist Life of a U.S. Army Computer in the GDR’s Financial Sector (Martin Schmitt)....Pages 139-164 Cooperating with Moscow, Stealing in California: Poland’s Legal and Illicit Acquisition of Microelectronics Knowhow from 1960 to 1990 (Mirosław Sikora)....Pages 165-195 From CoCom to Dot-Com: Technological Determinisms in Computing Blockades, 1949 to 1994 (Christopher Leslie)....Pages 196-225 Front Matter ....Pages 227-227 Israel Abraham Staffel: Lost Book Is Found (Timo Leipälä, Valery V. Shilov, Sergey A. Silantiev)....Pages 229-251 Mathematicians at the Scottish Café (Chris Zielinski)....Pages 252-275 Front Matter ....Pages 277-277 Discovering Eastern Europe PCs by Hacking Them ... Today (Stefano Bodrato, Fabrizio Caruso, Giovanni A. Cignoni)....Pages 279-294 Twentieth Anniversary of the Russian Virtual Museum of Computing and Information Technology History (Vladimir A. Kitov, Edward M. Proydakov)....Pages 295-303 ICT History Study as Corporate Philanthropy in Latvia (Inara Opmane, Rihards Balodis)....Pages 304-316 The Engineering Heritage of Bashir Rameev at the Polytechnic Museum: Honoring the 100th Anniversary of His Birth (Marina Smolevitskaya)....Pages 317-341 Back Matter ....Pages 343-343 This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the IFIP WG 9.7 International Workshop on the History of Computing, HC 2018, Held at the 24th IFIP World Computer Congress, WCC 2018, in Poznań, Poland, in September 2018. The 16 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 20 submissions. They reflect academic approaches to history along with the expertise of museum and other public history professionals as well as the experience of computing and information science practitioners. The papers are organized in the following sections: Eastern Europe, Poland, Soviet Union, CoCom and Comecon; analog computing, and public history. -- Provided by publisher