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The present state of historical content in computer science texts

Name: The present state of historical content in computer science texts
Creator: Kaila Katz
Keywords: 05 social sciences, 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering, 02 engineering and technology, 0509 other social sciences, 16. Peace & justice

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descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Dec 1995Publisher:Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)Journal:ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, volume 27, pages 43-50 (issn: 0097-8418,

Authors: Kaila Katz;

doi: 10.1145/216511.216534

The present state of historical content in computer science texts

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Writing texts in the early 1980's to fulfill the critical need in this burgeoning field, authors of computer science texts generally not mathematics or computer science historians relied upon readily available historical sources that do not stand up to critical analysis. These sources include Charles Babbage's memoirs [2], W. W. R. Ball's biased celebration of Cambridge University mathematics [3], and E. T. Bell's concise and colorful tributes to various mathematicians [6]. But these tributes and memoirs, cited in virtually every historical article, are no substitute for critical analysis of historical events.

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