The origins of digital computing in Europe

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 21-25

  Goodman, Seymour ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY COMPUTERS; COMPUTER ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SCIENTISTS; HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DECISION MAKING; DIGITAL STORAGE; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; FORMAL LANGUAGES; PROBLEM SOLVING; PRODUCTION ENGINEERING; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

DIGITAL COMPUTERS;

EID: 4243066218     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/903893.903911     Document Type: Review

References (8)

1. ACM. The Machine that Changed the World. Five-part video series produced by ACM and shown on PBS during 1990-91.
2. 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.
3. Davis, N.C. and Goodman, S.E. The Soviet Bloc's unified system of computers. ACM Computing Surveys 10, 2 (1978), 93-122.
4. 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.
5. Lee, J.A.N. Konrad Zuse. In People and Pioneers; ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/ people.html.
6. 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.
7. 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."
8. 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.