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From:           Ulf Hashagen <[log in to unmask]>
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ICHC 2000:"Mapping the History of Computing - Software Issues"
Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum
Paderborn o Germany
April 5-7,  2000
http://www.hnf.de/ICHC2000/

Within the expanding bibliography on the history of information processing,
the history of software has the least number of entries. Writers on this
aspect of computing history, both in and out of university settings, have
focused primarily on hardware and firms. This conference is designed to
attempt to explore the topic of the history of software in a new way. We
neither intend nor expect the product to be a finished history of any of
the topics included. Instead, we hope by setting the topics the way we
have, viz.,
?  Software as Science
?  Software as Engineering
?  Software as Reliable Artefact
?  Software as Labour Process
?  Software as Industry
to provide the opportunity to define and refine a research agenda for each
topic. In this sense, then, the conference can be seen as an opening gambit
in achieving an overall history of software.


Schedule

April 5, 2000 (Wednesday)
3.00 pm     Welcome
3.15 pm     Themes and Objectives Arthur L. Norberg (Charles Babbage
Institute)
3.45 pm     Keynote Address Friedrich L. Bauer (Technical University of
Munich)
4.30 pm     Coffee Break
5:00 am     Workshop 1: Software as Science
        Main Speaker: Michael S. Mahoney (Princeton University)
7.00 pm     Reception

April 6, 2000 (Thursday)
9:30 am     Workshop 2: Software as Engineering
        Main Speaker:   James E. Tomayko (Carnegie Mellon University)
11:30 am    Lunch Break
1:00 pm     Workshop 3: Software as Reliable Artefact
        Main Speaker: Donald MacKenzie (University of Edinburgh)
3.00 pm     Coffee Break
3.30 pm     Introduction to the HNF Exhibition and Special Guided Tours to the
Exhibition
5:30 pm     Museums and Exhibitions Workshop
        Speaker 1: Doron Swade (Science Museum London)
        Speaker 2: Ernst Denert (sd&m GmbH) / Klaus-Peter Loehr (Free University
Berlin)
        Speaker 3: David C. Allison (National Museum of American History)
8.00 pm     Conference Dinner


April 7, 2000 (Friday)
8:30 am     Workshop 4: Software as Labour Process
        Main Speaker:   Michael Cusumano (MIT)
10.30 am    Coffee Break
11:00 am    Workshop 5: Software as Industry
        Main Speaker:   Martin Campbell-Kelly (University of Warwick)
1:00 pm     End of the Conference



Contact Information:
Ulf Hashagen
Chief Curator (Calculating Machines, Computers, Mathematics)
Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum
Fuerstenallee 7
D- 33102 Paderborn
Germany

Tel.    0049-5251-306990
Fax.    0049-5251-306989
Email:  [log in to unmask]



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