By Lori Cameron and Michael Martinez
Long before Apple, Google, Amazon and Microsoft, there was IBM and its international network of branch offices.
IBM’s... Read More »
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 »
Computer Society: What do you mean about the "whiteness" of historical records?
Nelsen: When I wrote about the “whiteness” of historical records, i... 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 »
The articles in IEEE Annals of the History of Computing are the result of hard work by many people. We deeply appreciate the efforts of everyone who reviewed th... 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 »
From the analytical engine to the supercomputer, from Pascal to von Neumann, from punched cards to CD-ROMs — the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing covers the breadth of computer history. Featuring scholarly articles by leading computer scientists and historians, as well as firsthand accounts by computer pioneers, the Annals is the primary publication for recording, analyzing, and debating the history of computing. The Annals also serves as a focal point for people interested in uncovering and preserving the records of this exciting field. The quarterly publication is an active center for the collection and dissemination of information on historical projects and organizations, oral history activities, and international conferences.