Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum
The overall objective of the conference is to review our present understanding of the history of software and to establish an agenda for further research, rather than to provide finished histories for any of the areas of software history. By exploring our current understanding of software and its history, speakers and commentators will explore the fundamental elements that make software what it is. Problems and questions to be discussed at the conference will comprise the whole realm of issues ranging from purely technical to societal ones.
Virtually all the literature about the history of software presents reviews of the development of a particular software artefact. Articles on programming languages, operating systems, applications programming, and network protocols, to name only a few, make up the examples in this area, along with a group of essays on members the software industry. In this conference speakers and commentators will take a fresh view of this history through fresh categories and cross cutting themes. For this perspective, presentations will compare and contrast software with artefacts in other scientific and engineering disciplines, so as to ascertain in what ways software is similar to and different from other technologies.
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Ulf Hashagen
Chief Curator (Calculating Machines, Computers, Mathematics)
Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum
Fuerstenallee 7
D- 33102 Paderborn
Germany
Tel. 0049-5251-306990
Fax. 0049-5251-306989
Email: uhashagen@hnf.de
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