Hey Google, What’s a Moonshot?: How Silicon Valley Mocks Apollo
Thomas Haigh
Fifty years on, NASA's expensive triumph is a widely misunderstood model for spectacular innovation.
Defining American Greatness: IBM from Watson to Trump
Reflections on a firm that encapsulated the American Century.
Colossal Genius: Tutte, Flowers, and a Bad Imitation of Turing
Reflections on pioneering code-breaking efforts.
How Charles Bachman Invented the DBMS, a Foundation of Our Digital World
His 1963 Integrated Data Store set the template for all subsequent database management systems.
Where Code Comes From: Architectures of Automatic Control from Babbage to Algol
Considering the evolving concept of programming.
Innovators Assemble: Ada Lovelace, Walter Isaacson, and the Superheroines of Computing
Can computing history be both inspiring and accurate?
Actually, Turing Did Not Invent the Computer
Separating the origins of computer science and technology.
Software and Souls; Programs and Packages
How can historians tell stories about software without focusing solely on the code itself?
Shape the Future of Computing
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