Publications

A selection of recent publications produced by members of the Warwick History of Computing Research Group.

D. Rutter, From Diversity to Convergence: British Computer Networks and the Internet, 1970-1995, PhD thesis, Warwick University, 2005. Available on line at http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/reports/418.html.

M. Campbell-Kelly, Not All Bad: An Historical Perspective on Software Patents, Michigan Telecommunications and Technology Law Review, 11, 2 (2005), 191-248. Available on line at http://www.mttlr.org/voleleven/campbell-kelly.pdf.

Steve Russ, The Mathematical Works of Bernard Bolzano, Oxford University Press, 2004.

Martin Campbell-Kelly and William Aspray, Computer: A History of the Information Machine, 2nd ed., Westview Press, 2004.

Martin Campbell-Kelly and Ross Hamilton, "From National Champions to Little Ventures: The NEB and the Second Wave of IT in Britain 1975-1985" in Richard Coopey (ed), Information Technology Policy: An International History, Oxford University Press, 2004, pp. 169-186.

Martin Campbell-Kelly, "Software Industry", Dictionary of American History, Thomson Gale, vol 7, 2003, pp 439-443.

M. Campbell-Kelly, Mary Croarken, Eleanor Robson and Raymond Flood (eds.), Sumer to Spreadsheets: The History of Mathematical Tables, Oxford University Press, 2003.

M. Campbell-Kelly, From Airline Reservations to Sonic the Hedgehog: A History of the Software Industry, MIT Press, Cambridge Mass., 2003.

David Clark, Enclosing the Field: From Mechanization of Thought Processes to Computer Science, PhD thesis, Warwick University, 2003.

M. Campbell-Kelly, Software Patents, Milken Institute Review, 5, 4 (2003), 26-37.

Mary Croarken, Providing Longitude for All: The Eighteenth Century Computers of the Nautical Almanac, Journal of Maritime Research, October 2002.

Mary Croarken, Astronomical Labourers: Maskelyne's Assistants at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 1765-1811, Notes and Records of the Royal Society, 57, 3 (2003), 285-298.

M. Campbell-Kelly, Software as an Economic Activity, in Ulf Hashagen, Reinhard Keil-Slawik, and Arthur Norberg (eds.) History of Computing - Software Issues, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2002, pp. 185-202.

M. Campbell-Kelly, Computers in the Marketplace, Atsushi Akera and Frederik Nebeker (eds.), From 0 to 1: An Authoritative History of Modern Computing, Oxford University Press, 2002, pp. 177-188.

M. Campbell-Kelly, Turing's Papers on Programming, in R.O. Gandy and C.E.M. Yates (ed), Collected Works of A.M. Turing, Vol. 4: Mathematical Logic, North-Holland, 2001, pp. 243-250.

M. Campbell-Kelly, Information Technology and Organizational Change in the British Census, 1801-1911, in J. Yates and J. Van Maanen (eds.), Information Technology and Organizational Transformation, Sage, London, 2001, pp. 35-58.

M. Campbell-Kelly, "Not Only Microsoft: The Maturing of the Personal Computer Software Industry, 1982-1995," Business History Review 75 (Spring 2001) 103-145.

M.G. Croarken and M. Campbell-Kelly, "Beautiful Numbers: The Rise and Decline of the British Association Mathematical Tables Committee, 1871-1965", Annals of the History of Computing 22 (September 2000), 44-61.

M. Campbell-Kelly, The EDSAC Simulator, in Raul Rojas and Ulf Hashagen (eds), The First Computers - History and Architectures, MIT Press, Cambridge Mass., 2000, pp. 397-416.

M.G. Croarken, L.J. Comrie: A Forgotten Figure in the History of Numerical Computation, Mathematics Today, 36, 4 (2000), 114-118.