Computer Society History Committee Public Archive 

Coming events

• Turing's 100th Birthday Party at King's College, Cambridge, 15th & 16th June 2012
   
• IEEE Technical Tour of Japan
  20-28 May 2012

History publications of the committee and its members

• 5th IEEJ Commemoration:  One Step on Electrotechnology
  Akihiko Yamada, May 2012
  
  
• Recently Published Computer History Literature
  Jeffrey Yost, April 2012
   
• IEEE Packet Speech Milestone Celebrated at MIT Linvoln Laboratory
  David Walden, March 2012, published in the IEEE History Center Newsltter

• Report on the Fourth Information Processing Technology Heritage Certification and the 74th National Convention of IPSJ
  Akihiko Yamada, March 2012
   
• Edited transcript of April 9, 2011 interview of Charles Bachman
  Interviewed by Andrew Russell, posted publicly March 2012
  Bachman is well known for his database system work; this interview focuses more on his work with computer-communication systems and standards.
   
• A Culture of Innovation: Insider Accounts of Computing and Life at BBN
  Edited by David Walden and Raymond Nickerson, December 2011
  Note Amazon review by committee member Jeff Yost
  

• A Little Non-standard Intel format (BPNF)
  Stan Mazor, December 2011 
  
  
• The IBM Century: Creating the IT Revolution
  Edited by Jeffrey Yost, November 2011
  Note Amazon reviews by committee members Stan Mazor and Dave Walden
  
  
• Report on the 2011 C&C Prize Ceremony
  Akihiko Yamada, November 2011
   
• Brief History of the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
  Mike Liu and Ray Miller, October 2011 
  
  
• Report on the Technical Meeting of the History of Electrical Engineering, Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan (IEEJ), Tokyo, Sept. 2011
  Akihiko Yamada 
  
  
• The unknown history of the Internet: Engineering the worldwide WiWiW project
  Andreu Veà, presented at the History of Telecommunications Conference, Madrid, Spain, November 2010
   
• Recently Published History of Computing Literature
  Jeff Yost, August 2011
   
• History of Computers Exhibition at Hiroshima City Library
  Akihiko Yamada, Annals of the History of Computing, July-September 2011, pp. 82-83

• Memoir by Dave Walden
  This July 2011 memoir has also been posted in the IEEE Global History Network 

• A Brief History of the IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols(ICNP)
  Ray Miller, June 2011
  
  
• The Compatible Time-Sharing System (1961–1973)
  Fiftieth Anniversary Commemorative Overview
  David Walden and Tom Van Vleck editors, June 2011

• Notice about the above article published in Computer, November 2011
  (Bottom of page 68 and including a sidebar on other history activities in the Computer Society on the top of page 79)

• Five perspectives on interviewing: a roundtable discussion
  Members of the History Committee, February-April 2011

• Brief report on two IPSJ events
  Akihiko Yamada, March 2011

• A Brief History of the IEEE Transactions on Computers
  Mike Liu, published in the April 2011 issue of the Transactions on Computers

• IPSJ Information Processing Technology Heritage Certification Ceremony
  Akihiko Yamada, Annals of the History of Computing, April-June 2010, pp. 83-85

• IPSJ Information Processing Technology Heritage Program
  Akihiko Yamada, Annals of the History of Computing, July-September 2009, pp. 78-80

• A Historical Perspective of the IEEE Computer Society
  Willis King and Susan Land, 2009 IEEE Conference on the History of Technical Societies

• History of the Technical Committee on Mathematical Foundations of Computing
  Its first Symposium on the Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS), Ray Miller, 2009 
   
• Memoir by Ray Miller
  This memoir, circa 2008, has also been posted in the IEEE Global History Network
  

• Audio interview of Bob Stewart by Steve Diamond
  About the early days of the IEEE 802 standards, 2007

• List of the top events in the Society's history
  Created by the History Committee for the Society's 60th anniversary in 2006

Updated 17 May 2012