IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Vol. 29 Number 3, July-September 2007 This issue is the second of special issues of The Annals produced by the Software Industry Special Interest Group on the topic of PC Software. This issue focused on the Read More …
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Vol. 28 Number 4, October-December 2006 This issue is focused on the products, companies, and people who produced the early word processing software products. It includes articles by industry pioneers recording the how these products Read More …
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Vol. 24 Number 1, January-March, 2002 This special issue of The Annals was produced by The Software History Center (the predecessor to the Software Industry Special Interest Group). It focused on the software industry in Read More …
May 10, 2010 New York, NY On May 19, 2010, the Software Industry Special Industry Group convened a meeting of pioneers from companies that provided processing services including early service bureau companies. The meeting was held at the offices of Read More …
June 2-3, 2009 Mountain View, CA On June 2-3, 2009, the Software Industry Special Industry Group conducted a two-day meeting for pioneers from companies that provided time-sharing and remote processing services. The meeting was held at the Computer History Museum Read More …
March 31, 2009 Falls Church, VA On March 31, 2009, the Software Industry Special Industry Group convened a meeting of pioneers from companies that provide professional services to government agencies. The meeting was held at the offices of Computer Sciences Read More …
June 5, 2008 Mountain View, CA On June 5, 2008, the Software Industry Special Industry Group convened a meeting at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA of pioneers who had provided software to support HP minicomputers during the Read More …
June 3, 2008 Mountain View, CA On June 3, 2008, the Software Industry Special Industry Group convened a meeting at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA of pioneers who had provided software to support DEC and DG minicomputers Read More …
June 12, 2007 Mountain View, CA On June 12, 2007, the Software Industry Special Industry Group convened a meeting of relational database management systems (RDBMS) pioneers at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. The attendees included people who Read More …
March 29-30, 2007 Mountain View, CA On March 29 & 30, 2007, the Software Industry Special Industry Group conducted a meeting at the Computer History Museum for the pioneers who founded the NACCB (National Association of Computer Consultant Businesses). These Read More …
As we mentioned, a viable commercial computer timesharing requires a reliable and ubiquitous means to connect many remote users to that computer. Which implies a network. Which implies routing. But what do you do when you’re developing one of the world’s Read More …
As we mentioned previously, the origin of cloud computing was computer timesharing, a service created in the 1970’s. To be viable, commercial computer timesharing requires two technologies: the first is a computer capable of serving many simultaneous users such that Read More …
As I mentioned in a previous post, Fairchild Market Research and Planning (MRP) had elected to write computer applications themselves for 1) association reporting commitments and 2) in-house data analysis and custom reports. There was a MRP department employee who Read More …
Today’s Cloud provides resources, access and data that makes it indispensable. But virtually none of the services that evolved to today’s Cloud existed before computer timesharing came into being and became available to the end user computing population. Computer timesharing? Read More …
“The Cloud” has slightly different meanings for different people and in different contexts. But in most cases it is the term for the rich and powerful environment that provides access to applications, content and data from resources most of us Read More …
The Information Technology Corporate Histories Collection was created under a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The SI SIG’s predecessor, the Software History Center, partnered with the Computer History Museum and the Charles Babbage Foundation to administer the grant to Read More …
Our mission to preserve the history of the software industry includes encouraging organizations and individuals who have historical materials in their files to donate those materials to an archival organization where they can be preserved for the future and also Read More …
EEE Annals of the History of Computing, Vol. 35 Number 2, April-June 2013 This special issue (part 2 of a series which began with the special issue in October–December 2012) tells the history of how IBM and several new, independent software Read More …
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Vol. 34 Number 4, October-December 2012 This Annals special issue tells the story of how the transformation to RDBMSs began and describes how three companies pioneered the development of relational database management products Read More …
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Vol. 31 Number 4, October-December 2009 This issue is focused on the products, companies, and people who designed, programmed, and sold mainframe DBMS software products beginning in the 1960s and 1970s. It includes Read More …