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History of Nordic Computing

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Reflections, Thoughts, and Episodes
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    Chapter 2 An Interview with Börje Langefors
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    Chapter 3 The Pioneer Era in Norwegian Scientific Computing (1948–1962)
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    Chapter 4 The Role of IBM in Starting up Computing in the Nordic Countries
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    Chapter 5 Computerisation of the Icelandic State and Municipalities
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    Chapter 6 Technology transfer, Modernization, and the Welfare State
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    Chapter 7 A Failure Revisited: The First Finnish Computer Construction Project
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    Chapter 8 On the Politics of Failure
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    Chapter 9 Birth of Computer Science Education and Research in Finland
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    Chapter 10 The Advent of the First General-Purpose Computer in Iceland
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    Chapter 11 Early Curricula in Computer Science at the University of Iceland
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    Chapter 12 Research and Curricula Development at Norwegian Universities
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    Chapter 13 Introducing Information Technology at Norwegian Regional Colleges
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    Chapter 14 Nordic Cooperation within the Field of Computing
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    Chapter 15 Cooperation as a Driving Force in Nordic It
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    Chapter 16 History of the Nordic Computer Industry
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    Chapter 17 The Datasaab Flexible Central Processing Unit
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    Chapter 18 Introduction of Computers in Norwegian School Mathematics
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    Chapter 19 From Programming to System Design
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    Chapter 20 The Birth of It in Upper Secondary Education in Norway
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    Chapter 21 It for Learning: A Need for a New Approach?
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    Chapter 22 The Early Nordic Software Effort
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    Chapter 23 Algol-Genius
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    Chapter 24 The Birth of Simula
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    Chapter 25 Club Activity in the Early Phases of Microcomputing in Finland
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    Chapter 26 MIPROC
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    Chapter 27 From Binary Strings to Visual Programming
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    Chapter 28 Ferranti Mercury at the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment
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    Chapter 29 Making Computing Available
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    Chapter 30 Scip: A Scandinavian Project on Systems Analysis and Design
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    Chapter 31 Is Scandinavian Information System Development Becoming Passé?
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    Chapter 32 Significant Applications
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    Chapter 33 Applications and Technologies for Maritime and Offshore Industries
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    Chapter 34 Applications and Technologies for Maritime and Offshore Industries
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    Chapter 35 Nordunet: The Roots of Nordic Networking
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    Chapter 36 Where Were the Women?
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    Chapter 37 When Computers Became of Interest in Politics
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    Chapter 38 Development in the Growth Base of the ‘Oulu Phenomenon’
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    Chapter 39 The Norwegian Computing Center and the Univac 1107 (1963–1970)
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    Chapter 40 The Wegematic 1000 Computing Center, 1959–1964
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    Chapter 41 Concluding Remarks
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Title
History of Nordic Computing
Published by
Springer, December 2005
DOI 10.1007/b104638
ISBNs
978-0-387-24168-5, 978-0-387-24167-8
Editors

Bubenko, Janis, Impagliazzo, John, Sølvberg, Arne

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Country Count As %
Unknown 8 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 3 38%
Researcher 2 25%
Other 1 13%
Unknown 2 25%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 2 25%
Linguistics 1 13%
Arts and Humanities 1 13%
Computer Science 1 13%
Engineering 1 13%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 2 25%