In the Beginning: Personal Recollections of Software PioneersISBN: 978-0-8186-7999-5
Hardcover
328 pages
December 1997, Wiley-IEEE Computer Society Press
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Preface.
1. Introduction.
2. Before the Beginning: The Pre-Software Era.
Life Before Software, A Few Reminiscences (David Myers).
3. Setting the Stage: Three Eras of Software History.
Software Reflections--A Pioneer's View of the History of the Field (Robert L. Glass).
4. Making the Market: Vendor Pioneers.
Reflections on a Software Life (Watts S. Humphrey).
How I Watched In Pain as IBM Outsmarted UNIVAC (Norman F. Schneidewind).
5. Solving Problems: Application Pioneers.
Aerospace.
An Early Application Generator and Other Recollections (Barry Boehm).
View From Below (Robert N. Britcher).
Almost Thirty Years as a Change Agent (Donald J. Reifer).
Information Systems.
Leo, the First Business Computer: A Personal Experience (Frank Land).
Compu-THEN: Before Megabytes (Ben G. Matley).
Academic Computer Centers
Four Anecdotes (Harold Joseph Highland).
Consulting
The Prolonged Metamorphosis of a Software Engineer (Robert L. Baber).
6. Pursuing Progress: Academic/Laboratory Pioneers.
Autobiographical Snippets (John M. Bennett).
Closing the Circle (Bruce I. Blum).
Before Memory Was Virtual (Peter J. Denning).
Growing Up with Software Tools (Raymond C. Houghton).
7. After the Beginning: Conclusions.
Biographical Sketches of the Contributors.
Index.
1. Introduction.
2. Before the Beginning: The Pre-Software Era.
Life Before Software, A Few Reminiscences (David Myers).
3. Setting the Stage: Three Eras of Software History.
Software Reflections--A Pioneer's View of the History of the Field (Robert L. Glass).
4. Making the Market: Vendor Pioneers.
Reflections on a Software Life (Watts S. Humphrey).
How I Watched In Pain as IBM Outsmarted UNIVAC (Norman F. Schneidewind).
5. Solving Problems: Application Pioneers.
Aerospace.
An Early Application Generator and Other Recollections (Barry Boehm).
View From Below (Robert N. Britcher).
Almost Thirty Years as a Change Agent (Donald J. Reifer).
Information Systems.
Leo, the First Business Computer: A Personal Experience (Frank Land).
Compu-THEN: Before Megabytes (Ben G. Matley).
Academic Computer Centers
Four Anecdotes (Harold Joseph Highland).
Consulting
The Prolonged Metamorphosis of a Software Engineer (Robert L. Baber).
6. Pursuing Progress: Academic/Laboratory Pioneers.
Autobiographical Snippets (John M. Bennett).
Closing the Circle (Bruce I. Blum).
Before Memory Was Virtual (Peter J. Denning).
Growing Up with Software Tools (Raymond C. Houghton).
7. After the Beginning: Conclusions.
Biographical Sketches of the Contributors.
Index.
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