This museum opened on
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Roger Needham (1935-2003) died on 28 February 2003.
Allan Bromley, who researched Charles Babbage's drawings of the Difference Engine extensively in the London Science Museum archive, died in August 2002. This work led to the building of the Difference Engine No. 2, now on display in the Science Museum Computing Gallery in London.
Edsger Wybe Dijkstra (1930-2002),
died on
Both co-inventors of
Simula 67, the first
object-oriented programming language, died in 2002.
Ole-Johan Dahl (1931-2002)
died on
Kristen Nygaard (1926-2002)
died on
Business Computing:
the Second 50 Years, The Guildhall, London, UK,
Program Verification and Semantics: The Early Work,
seminar,
Science Museum, London,
Tom Kilburn (1921-2001), Manchester University, UK,
died on
William Hewlett (1913-2001), co-founder of
HP, died on
Donald Davies (1924-2000), packet switching pioneer at
NPL, died on
ACE 2000 CONFERENCE
50th anniversary of the ACE computer,
Science Museum, London,
EDSAC 99, 50th Anniversary of the EDSAC 1 computer,
Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK,
50th Anniversary of Joe Lyons' decision to give the
go ahead to the building of
Tommy Flowers, MBE, codebreaking engineer at Bletchley Park
who worked on Colossus, died on
In Memory of Internet Pioneer Jon Postel, died October 1998.
See also
tribute from
IANA and
(Memorial service, 5 November 1998.)
50th Anniversary of the First Stored-Program Computer,
Memorials to Alan Turing -
a new
International Conference on the History of Computing,
Computers in Europe: Past, Present and Future
International Symposium,
1st
Vintage Computer Festival,
Alameda County Fairgrounds, Pleasanton, California, USA,
Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing,
San Jose, California, USA,
See also other History of Computing conferences.
If you would like to volunteer to be a virtual curator on some
aspect of the history of computing, please
get in touch,
preferably with a
URL for the "gallery" or on-line exhibit
which you would like included.
The museum has no on-line shop as yet, but feel free to try some
virtual shopping.
You may also be interested in a list of
books on the history of computing, available for sale from
Blackwell's Bookshop, Oxford.
See also:
See also:
See also:
Galleries
Local virtual exhibits
Items marked
are especially recommended.
Corporate history and overviews
More on-line history from other computer companies not mentioned
above would be especially welcome for inclusion.
History of computing organizations
See also:
General historical information
from
ECHO: Exploring and Collecting History Online.
See also
some history and
20 Year Usenet Archive from
Google Groups.
Computer-related museums
On-line exhibits and information
The following are virtual museums or exhibitions:
Personal collections
Selected newsgroups
Computer simulators
The future
This section includes information on the future of computing
and networking.
Other links
References
This virtual museum is mentioned in the following locations:
See also
Computer History
links from the
Google Directory.
This virtual museum service is brought to you by
Jonathan Bowen
as part of the
Virtual Library museums pages (VLmp), supported by
ICOM.