Computing in Transition: the Origins of Barcelona's School of Informatics,...
This paper analyses the establishment of the first computer science university degrees in Catalonia in 1976, in a context of political transition to democracy in Spain. Based on an oral history project...
View ArticlePrePrint: Reconsidering the Stored Program Concept
The foundational importance of the "stored program concept" is universally agreed, but the concept itself has no clear and generally agreed definition. We historicize it, going back to von Neumann'...
View ArticlePrePrint: Early Commercial Electronic Distribution of Software
Large-scale electronic distribution of software (EDS) originated in the second half of the 1970s. By the early 1980s, several North American and European companies were already distributing software...
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