The History of Computing course incorporates a significant research and writing methods component and covers the social, economic and cultural causes and consequences of significant contributions in the history of computing from the earliest times to the modern era. A comparative emphasis is made of contributions from all over the world, including Europe (Ada Lovelace, Alan Turing), Japan (Casio Brothers, Shima Masatoshi) and North America (Grace Hopper, Stephen Wozniak). Comparative and cultural issues surrounding the impact of their achievements and those of other scientists are also investigated.     Project titles

            GUEST SEMINARS & ARTICLES:

HOC Seminar 2005

Guest Lecture 2006

University of Essex Article

FILMS TO SEE:

Breaking the Code

Enigma

The Women of Station X

History of Mathematical Tables

(Cambell-Kelly)

Gift of Fire (Baase)

The History of Computing Project

The National Museum of Computing

Binary Dinosaurs

Portsmouth Group

Warwick Group

The Centre for Computing History

IEEE Annals of the History of Computing

Women in Computing

The Virtual Museum of Manchester Computing