International Communities of Invention and Innovation

International Communities of Invention and Innovation: IFIP WG 9.7 International Conference on the History of Computing, HC 2016, Brooklyn, NY, USA, … in Information and Communication Technology)

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.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. The Route Less Taken: The Homegrown Los Alamos Integrated Computer Network
Chapter 2. MONET – Monash University’s Campus LAN in the 1980s – A Bridge to Better Networking
Chapter 3. Technology vs. Political Conflict – How Networks Penetrate the Iron Curtain
Chapter 4. There and Back Again – Andrew Booth, a British Computer Pioneer, and his Interactions with US and Ot …
Chapter 5. ‘Machines à Comparer les Idées’ of Semen Korsakov: First Step Towards AI
Chapter 6. Towards Machine Independence: From Mechanically Programmed Devices to the Internet of Things
Chapter 7. The Global Virtual Museum of Information Science & Technology, a Project Idea
Chapter 8. Why not OSI?
Chapter 9. Flame Wars on Worldnet: Early Constructions of the International User
Chapter 10. The Code of Banking: Software as the Digitalization of German Savings Banks
Chapter 11. Electronic “Ambassador”: The Diplomatic Missions of IBM’s RAMAC 305
Chapter 12. The Birth of Artificial Intelligence: First Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Paris in 1951?
Chapter 13. The World’s Smallest Mechanical Parallel Calculator: Discovery of Original Drawings and Patent Docum …