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Ronald Mak
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Mission Control, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) NASA Mars Exploration Rover Mission |
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Philip Gebhardt "The encryption war of WWII: the Enigma encryption machine" A Java simulation of the encryption machine used in World War II by the Nazi military. |
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Stefan Gloutnikov "History of Memory and Storage Systems" Research and trace history of the memory and storage subsystems. Note correct and failed paths. |
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Michael Haney "A Brief History of Apple (2000-Present)" The history of Apple after the return of Steve Jobs. |
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Youn Kim "Past programming languages and their influences on today's languages and programming paradigms" There are many different computer architectures. But the most prevalent architecture is Von Neumann architecture. |
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Yulian Kynchev "Internet and Social's Influence on Programming Evolution" How the internet and the influence of social media and social websites have influenced the growth, changes, and paradigm shifts in Programming. |
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Ryan Lichtig "The History of Natural Language Processing" It is a very interesting topic to me and I have plans to go to the SRI with in the next two weeks or so and I will be posting more information as I go! |
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Weili Liu "Evolution of Social Networking" The history of social networking, and what the next generation's of social networks might be. |
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Patrick O'Connell "PDP-1 GUI Emulator" A GUI-based simulator of the PDP-1 and program development environment that will run on a laptop. |
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Michael Riha "History of Lossless Data Compression Algorithms" The evolution of Lempel-Ziv compression algorithms, as well as other alternative formats such as DEFLATE and DEFLATE64. Depending on the scope of my research I may also include such information as how these algorithms were implemented on early computers. |
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Steven Terpe "Why Instruction Sets No Longer Matter" How we arrived where we are: a place where instruction sets no longer matter. |
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Stephen Voglewede "Biology and Computers: A lesson in what is possible" How computation has changed the face of biology and created a new field in Bioinformatics. A history of Bioinformatics, beginning with algorithms like the Needleman-Wunsch, and ending with the tools available today and the current state of the Human Genome Project. |
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Prof. Edward Feigenbaum of Stanford University, one of the leading pioneers of the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI), will speak to the class in MacQuarrie Hall 225 on Monday, Sepetember 12, 6:00-7:15 PM on The History of AI. This meeting will not be open to the public. |
| Guest Lecturer | Possible Topics |
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| Allan Alcorn | Co-founder of Atari, creator of Pong, developed the MPEG standard and Apple Quicktime; the early history of video games |
| Dennis Allison | The People's Computer Company and the early history of personal computing |
| Gordon Bell |
Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) Computer Structures textbook |
| Don Chamberlin |
Co-inventor of SQL, System R, and XQuery Evolution of information storage and database systems |
| Edward Feigenbaum | History of artificial intelligence (AI) |
| Robert Garner | RISC architectures and Sun SPARC; Xerox Star |
| Shomit Ghose | Contributions of venture capital to Silicon Valley |
| James Gosling | Java programming language |
| Dan Greiner | Systems architecture from the IBM System/360 to the IBM System Z |
| Alan Kay | Object-oriented programming and Smalltalk, graphical user interfaces, Dynabook |
| Donald Knuth |
"All Questions about the History of Computer Science Answered" The Art of Computer Programming |
| Stephen Kwan | Information technology (IT), business data processing, service science |
| Ike Nassi | SAP (global enterprise software company) |
| Randall Neff | Early Hewlett-Packard calculators |
| Robert Patrick |
Mainframe systems software, systems analysis Taxonomy of application systems |
| David Pease | Instructor of the History of Computing class at U.C. Santa Cruz |
| Mark Seaman |
Naval Tactical Data System (NTDS), UNIVAC CP-642B CMS-2Q programming language (U.S. Navy) |
| Steve "Woz" Wozniak | Co-founder of Apple Computer |
| Project Advisor | Possible Topics |
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| Michael Albaugh | IBM 1401, 1440, 1620, 1130; CDC 6600; UNIVAC SS 90; Atari |
| Dennis Allison | (see Guest Lecturer table above) |
| Gordon Bell | (see Guest Lecturer table above) |
| Grady Booch |
Unified Modeling Language (UML) Software engineering tools and methodologies |
| Peter Capek |
Evolution of hardware sytems and software applications Evolution and standards of floating point, storage, I/O control systems, virtual machines, programming languages |
| Ward Cunningham | Techniques for displaying old computer programs in the most comprehensible way on the Web |
| Rick Dill | Active for 50 years in computer technology and management from processes to chips to displays to computer applications |
| John Dobyns | Management, economics, methods, etc. of software product development |
| James Gosling | (see Guest Lecturer table above) |
| Randall Hansen | Techniques for displaying old computer programs in the most comprehensible way on the Web |
| Alan Kay | (see Guest Lecturer table above) |
| Christophe Lecuyer |
Zilog Semiconductor technology |
| David Macklin | IBM CPC, 650 RAMAC and SOAP, 1401, APL, FORTRAN |
| Jud McCarthy | IBM PC & PC-XT |
| Robert Patrick | (see Guest Lecturer table above) |
| Bernard Peuto |
History of Zilog History of computing at Rice University |
| John Pokoski | Comparisons of computer architectures; machine instructions for variable-length data |
| Ken Ross | Computer timesharing |
| Oscar Salmassy | Experiences from the IBM 2311 Direct Access Storage Facility for the IBM System/360 to microprocessor development for the IBM ATM attachment |
| Dick Sites | DEC Alpha, IBM Stretch, Burroughs B6700 |
| Van Snyder |
FORTRAN and scientific computing IBM 1401 Autocoder |
| Jim Warren |
West Coast Computer Faire Intelligent Machines Journal (IMJ) Dr. Dobb's Journal of Computer Calisthenics & Orthodontia Computer privacy and freedom |
There will be an unofficial field trip to the museum on Saturday, August 27, starting at 10:30 AM with free passes for students enrolled in this classs. Besides a self-guided tour of the exhibits, you can see a live demo of the Babbage Difference Engine and experience a fully restored 50-years-old IBM 1401 computer system in operation. (Of course, you can always visit the museum on your own anytime it's normally open to view the exhibits or to conduct research.)
Besides the Computer History Museum, you will have access to other historical repositories, many of which are on the Web.
You will work in small project teams to research the history of computing. Based on the team members' interests and with the instructor's consent, each team will devise a project that investigates some historic hardware or software artifact or methodology, a legendary computing pioneer or company, or the evolving impact of computing on work and society. All projects will rely on original sources.
Example projects include
Each project team will present oral progress reports of its activities during the semester to the rest of the class. Final deliverables will be research results that can be submitted to the Computer History Museum or posted to websites devoted to computing history such as the IEEE Global History Network described above.
| CS 46B | Introduction to Data Structures |
grade C- or better, or equivalent knowledge of computer software |
| CS 47 | Introduction to Computer Organization |
grade C- or better, or equivalent knowledge of computer hardware |
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A History of Modern Computing, 2nd edition Paul E. Ceruzzi The MIT Press, 2003 ISBN: 978-0262532037 |
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Writing History: A Guide for Students, 3rd edition William Kelleher Storey Oxford University Press, 2008 ISBN: 978-0195337556 |
