International Communities of Invention and Innovation : IFIP WG 9.7 International Conference on the History of Computing, HC 2016, Brooklyn, NY, USA, May 25-29, 2016, Revised Selected Papers

This book contains revised selected papers presented at the IFIP WG 9.7 International Conference on the History of Computing, HC 2016, held in Brooklyn, NY, USA, in May 2016. The 13 full papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics related to the history of computing and focus on the history of pre-existing relationships and communities that led to triumphs (and dead-ends) in the history of computing. This broad perspective helps to tell a more accurate story of important developments like the Internet and provide a better understanding of how to sponsor future invention and innovation. They reflect on histories that foreground the international community along four broad themes: invention, policy, infrastructure, and social history. Front Matter ....Pages I-XII The Route Less Taken: The Homegrown Los Alamos Integrated Computer Network (Nicholas Lewis)....Pages 1-22 MONET – Monash University’s Campus LAN in the 1980s – A Bridge to Better Networking (Barbara Ainsworth, Neil Clarke, Chris Avram, Judy Sheard)....Pages 23-48 Technology vs. Political Conflict – How Networks Penetrate the Iron Curtain (Frank Dittmann)....Pages 49-57 There and Back Again – Andrew Booth, a British Computer Pioneer, and his Interactions with US and Other Contemporaries (Roger G. Johnson)....Pages 58-70 ‘Machines à Comparer les Idées’ of Semen Korsakov: First Step Towards AI (Valery V. Shilov, Sergey A. Silantiev)....Pages 71-86 Towards Machine Independence: From Mechanically Programmed Devices to the Internet of Things (Arthur Tatnall, Bill Davey)....Pages 87-100 The Global Virtual Museum of Information Science & Technology, a Project Idea (Giovanni A. Cignoni, Giovanni A. Cossu)....Pages 101-114 Why not OSI? (Bill Davey, Robert F. Houghton)....Pages 115-121 Flame Wars on Worldnet: Early Constructions of the International User (Christopher Leslie)....Pages 122-140 The Code of Banking: Software as the Digitalization of German Savings Banks (Martin Schmitt)....Pages 141-164 Electronic “Ambassador”: The Diplomatic Missions of IBM’s RAMAC 305 (Evangelos Kotsioris)....Pages 165-180 The Birth of Artificial Intelligence: First Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Paris in 1951? (Herbert Bruderer)....Pages 181-185 The World’s Smallest Mechanical Parallel Calculator: Discovery of Original Drawings and Patent Documents from the 1950s in Switzerland (Herbert Bruderer)....Pages 186-192 Back Matter ....Pages 193-193