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Toward International Computing History
January-March 2006 (vol. 28 no. 1)
pp. 108, 107
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Corinna Schlombs, "Toward International Computing History," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 108, 107, January-March, 2006.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/MAHC.2006.21,
author = {Corinna Schlombs},
title = {Toward International Computing History},
journal ={IEEE Annals of the History of Computing},
volume = {28},
number = {1},
issn = {1058-6180},
year = {2006},
pages = {108, 107},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MAHC.2006.21},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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Corinna Schlombs, University of Pennsylvania
This essay advocates for international histories of computing that either compare computing in two or more countries or that investigate interactions between countries. While the first are suited to identify causal factors, the latter augment social and cultural histories.

1. 108 M. Campbell-Kelly, "The Railway Clearing House," Information Acumen, L. Bud-Frierman, ed. Routledge, 1994, pp. 51-74, and M. Campbell-Kelly, "Large-Scale Data Processing in the Prudential, 1850-1930," Accounting Business and Financial History, vol. 2, no. 2, 1992, pp. 117-139.2. J. Agar, The Government Machine, MIT Press, 2003.3. For example, K. Flamm, Creating the Computer, The Brookings Institution, 1988.4. M. Mahoney, "The History of Computing in the History of Technology," Annals of the History of Computing, vol. 10, no. 2, 1988, pp. 113-125.5. A. Akera, "The Circulation of Knowledge, Institutional Ecologies, and the History of Computing," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, vol. 26, no. 3, 2004, pp. 86-88.

Index Terms:
computer, globalization, technology transfer, comparative history
Citation:
Corinna Schlombs, "Toward International Computing History," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 108, 107, Jan.-Mar. 2006, doi:10.1109/MAHC.2006.21
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