By Lori Cameron
Child sexual exploitation and trafficking is a serious and widespread epidemic proliferated by the internet’s vast international network of tra... Read More »
Probing Deeper into PC Software’s Past to Uncover Computing’s Paradigm Transformations
Historian Michael Mahoney has urged researchers to probe deeper into com... Read More »
In computing circles, Heinz Rutishauser and Niklaus Wirth of Switzerland are well known for their contributions to the history of computing: Rutishauser develop... Read More »
By Michael Martinez and Lori Cameron
Computing pioneer Andrew V. Haeff, a Moscow-born inventor of several important vacuum tubes, was working in the U.S. Nav... Read More »
By Michael Martinez and Lori Cameron
Something is desperately wrong with computing’s historical record.
Just ask Arvid Nelsen, rare books and manuscripts ... Read More »
Developed by BBN around 1973, the private line interface (PLI) and its historical relationship between cryptography and packet-switched computer networks is exa... Read More »
Records reveal that the first digital pictures--the first still pictures, videogames, and computer animations--were made on computers starting in the late 1940s... Read More »
As part of a broader prehistory and history of early intrusion-detection systems (IDSs), this article focuses on the first such system, Intrusion Detection Expe... Read More »
Before becoming a security giant, Symantec offered a variety of software products. Its story emphasizes the importance of venture capitalists in the success and... Read More »
Since its birth 50 years ago, the fork has remained a central element of modern computing. This article looks back on its history.
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