Contents

  1. Introducing the Early Digital by Thomas Haigh (University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee & Siegen University).
  2. Inventing an Analog Past and a Digital Future in Computing by Ronald Kline (Cornell University).
  3. Forgotten Machines: The Need For a New Master Narrative by Doron Swade (Royal Holloway, University of London).
  4. Calvin Mooers, Zatocoding, and Early Research on Information Retrieval by Paul E. Ceruzzi (Smithsonian Institution).
  5. Switching the engineer’s mind set to Boolean. Applying Shannon’s algebra to control circuits and digital computing (1938-1958) by Maarten Bullynck (Paris 8).
  6. The ENIAC Display: Insignia of a Digital Praxeology by Tristan Thielmann (Siegen University).
  7. The Evolution of Digital Computing Practice on the Cambridge University EDSAC, 1949-1951 by Martin Campbell-Kelly (Warwick University).
  8. The Media of Programming by Mark Priestley (Independent scholar) & Thomas Haigh
    (University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee & Siegen University).
  9. Foregrounding the Background: Business, Economics, Labor, and Government Policy as Shaping Forces in Early Digital Computing History by William Aspray (University of Colorado Boulder) & Christopher Loughnane (University of Glasgow).
  10. “The Man with a Micro-calculator:” Digital Modernity and Late Soviet Computing Practices by Ksenia Tatarchenko (Geneva University).