Historical content in computer science texts: A concern

IEEE Annals of the History of Computing

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 16-19

  Katz, Kaila ^a,b,c,d,e  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CLARKSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e IEEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; HISTORY; PROGRAM ASSEMBLERS;

ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE; COMPUTER PROGRAMMER; HISTORICAL CONTENT; HISTORICAL MATERIAL;

COMPUTER SCIENCE;

EID: 0030736040     PISSN: 10586180     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/85.560727     Document Type: Article

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