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IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
[Updated September 23, 2020]

This website contains supplemental material to the following aspects of the Annals (and more). Nothing here is IEEE content unless that is explicitly stated.

Contents

  • Current highlights
  • Auxiliary content related to published articles, departments, and issues
  • Special-topic issues, 1981--present
  • Finding and bibliographic aids for the Annals
  • More about Annals departments
  • Annals history

Current highlights in or about the Annals

  • About open access publication in the Annals (scroll down to "Open Access")

Auxiliary content related to Annals articles, departments, and issues

  • Below are three additional images for Elisabetta Mori's article "Olivetti ELEA Sign System: Interfaces before the Advent of HCI" in Annals volume 42 issue 2020-4. The three images are Courtesy of Gui Bonsiepe.
         ¶ Fig. 9-extra. Examples of the basic symbols (simboli base). Olivetti ELEA 9003 sign system by Tomás Maldonado and Gui Bonsiepe (1960-1961).
         ¶ Fig. 10-extra. Examples of the determinative symbols (simboli determinativi) (1). Olivetti ELEA 9003 sign system by Tomás Maldonado and Gui Bonsiepe (1960-1961).
         ¶ Fig. 11-extra. Examples of the determinative symbols (simboli determinativi) (2). Olivetti ELEA 9003 sign system by Tomás Maldonado and Gui Bonsiepe (1960-1961).

  • 2020 snapshot of the website of the Software Industry Special Interest Group as developed between 1985 and 2020. Two of the three anecdotes in Annals vol. 42 no. 3 cite this document; these anecdotes describe the journey of Luanne Johnson and Burton Grad in deciding to collect information on software history, learning how to collect it, and developing a formal and informal infrastructure to do the collecting.

  • Information relating to the 2018, 2019, and 2020 special issues on desktop publishing

  • Additional information relating to two papers about IBM's ACS project published in the Annals in 2015 and 2016 (1. Brian Randell's paper entitled "IBM's Project Y and ACS project" (IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, vol. 37, no. 3, July-September 2015); and 2. A paper entitled "The IBM ACS Project" by Mark Smotherman, Edward Sussenguth, and Russell Robelen, Annals, vol. 38, no. 1, January-March 2016, pp. 60-74).
         ¶ A detailed draft memo from 1966 on dynamic instruction scheduling.
         ¶ Fred Buelow, Dan Murphy, and John Zasio sketched an article on ACS circuits technology. However, they have been forced to abandon that effort before submitting a completed paper. We post here a 2014 draft of that proposed paper.
         ¶ Lynn Conway has an ACS archive.
         ¶ Mark Smotherman has another ACS website.

  • Related to Dan Murphy's history and TENEX and TOP-20 ("Anecdotes", IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, vol.37, no. 1, pp. 83-86, Jan.-Mar. 2015) are his
         ¶ TECO, TENEX, and TOP-20 Papers

  • Related to Tom Van Vleck's report ("Events and Sightings", IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, vol. 36, no. 4, pp. 93-96, Oct.-Dec. 2014) is his
         ¶ wonderful multicians.org website

  • Links to 19 Annals Web Extras of articles and departments in volumes 23 to 31.

Annals finding and bibliographic aids

  • One page list of volume-issue links
  • Complete list from the Anecdotes Dept.
  • List from the Biographies Dept.
  • Complete list from the Interviews Dept.
  • List from the Reviews Dept.
  • List of articles from volumes 1-17 that EIC Mike Williams had made (.xls file)
  • Another list, volume 1-17, Mike Williams had made, sortable by department (.xls file)
  • Combined Annals indexes from the beginning through 2009 when the Computer Society stopped producing them (it is a 214MB PDF file).

From Nelson Beebe's massive bibliography collection

  • Tables of contents of the Annals in one linear list for volumes 1-13 (before it became the IEEE Annals)
  • Bibliography of the Annals
  • Bibliography in BibTeX format
  • Tables of contents of the Annals in one linear list from volume 14 on (after it became the IEEE Annals)
  • Bibliograpy of the IEEE Annals
  • Bibliography in BibTeX format

Annals history

  • An Excel file of the history of holders of named editorial board positions, e.g., editors-in-chief, associate editors-in-chief, associate editors, ..., and department editors
    A present this list is based only on looking at the masthead of the first issue of each year; it needs to be refined by looking at every issue of each year.

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