• DocumentCode
    852801
  • Title

    What Makes the History of Software Hard

  • Author

    Mahoney, Michael S.

  • Author_Institution
    Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ
  • Volume
    30
  • Issue
    3
  • fYear
    2008
  • Firstpage
    8
  • Lastpage
    18
  • Abstract
    Creating software for work in the world has meant translating into computational models the knowledge and practices of the people who have been doing that work without computers. What people know and do reflects their particular historical experience, which also shapes decisions about what can be automated and how. Software thus involves many histories and a variety of sources to be read in new ways.
  • Keywords
    computer software; history; computational models; historical experience; software history; Biomedical informatics; Computational modeling; History; Humans; Microcomputers; Optical computing; Permission; Photonic integrated circuits; Shape; Software tools;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1058-6180
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MAHC.2008.55
  • Filename
    4617909
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=852801