Histories of computing

List of Figures

Unexpected Connections, Powerful Precedents, and Big Questions: The Work of Michael Sean Mahoney on the History of Computing / Thomas Haigh

Part 1. Shaping the History of Computing

1. The History of Computing in the History of Technology

2. What Makes History?

3. Issues in the History of Computing

4. The Histories of Computing(s)

Part 2. Constructing a History for Software

5. Software: The Self-Programming Machine

6. Extracts from The Roots of Software Engineering

7. Finding a History for Software Engineering

8. Boys' Toys and Women's "Work: Feminism Engages Software

Part 3. The Structures of Computation

9. Computing and Mathematics at Princeton in the 1950s

10. Computer Science: The Search for a Mathematical Theory

11. Extracts from Computers and Mathematics: The Search for a Discipline of Computer Science

12. The Structures of Computation and the Mathematical Structure of Nature

13. Extracts from Software as ScienceScience as Software

Éloge: Michael Sean Mahoney, 1939-2008 / Jed Z. Buchwald / D. Graham Burnett

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Acknowledgments

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