Special Issue of The Annals

The IEEE Annals of the History of Computing is a quarterly publication which features scholarly articles by leading computer scientists and historians, as well as firsthand accounts by computer pioneers. Software History Center founders Luanne Johnson and Burt Grad served as guest editors for the Winter (Jan-Mar) 2002 special issue which focuses on the emergence of software products companies in the 1960s.

The software pioneers whose stories are told in this issue include Walter Brown, John Cullinane, Frank Dodge, Marty Goetz, Peter Harris, Bob Head, Lee Keet, Ken Kolence, Dale Learn, Bill Newcomer, Tom Nies, Joe Piscopo, and Larry Welke. Articles about IBM unbundling in 1969 were by Burt Grad, Watts Humphrey and Emerson Pugh.

The issue also includes articles by the prominent historians Martin Campbell-Kelly, James Cortada and Thomas Haigh.

This special issue is the first that this distinguished journal has devoted to the history of the software industry.

More information is available at the IEEE Computer Society's website.

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