Abstract
Retracing the paths of influential, but often isolated, computer pioneers.
- ACM. The Machine that Changed the World. Five-part video series produced by ACM and shown on PBS during 1990--91.Google Scholar
- Crowe, G.D. and Goodman, S.E. S.A. Lebedev and the birth of Soviet computing. IEEE Ann. History of Computing 16, 1 (Jan.--Mar. 1994), 4--24. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Davis, N.C. and Goodman, S.E. The Soviet Bloc's unified system of computers. ACM Computing Surveys 10, 2 (1978), 93--122. Google ScholarDigital Library
- IEEE Annals of the History of Computing has published many articles on Babbage, Zuse, and the history of computing in several East and West European countries.Google Scholar
- Lee, J.A.N. Konrad Zuse. In People and Pioneers; ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/people.html.Google Scholar
- Malinovskii, B.N. Materiali Pro Stvorennia. Copies of historical material collected for Lebedev's centenary commemoration, Kiev, Nov. 14--15, 2002. Malinovskii has written prodigiously on Lebedev and other Soviet computer scientists. See www.icfcst.kiev.ua/museum/Lebedev.html.Google Scholar
- Swade, D. Private communications, Nov. 26--Dec. 4, 2002. Swade has worked extensively on Babbage, and obtained a complete BESM-6 for the National Museum of Science and Industry in London in 1993, "with a view to restoration to working order."Google Scholar
- Wolcott, P. and Dorojevets, M.N. The Institute of Precision Mechanics and Computer Technology and the El'brus Family of High-Speed Computers. IEEE Ann. History of Computing 20, 1 (Jan.--Mar., 1998), 4--14. Wolcott has also studied other post-BESM-6 high-performance computers in the USSR. Google ScholarDigital Library
Index Terms
- The origins of digital computing in Europe
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