Comp. sci. and tech. history III(9) : hacker conventions, MINIX, pop culture…

Cybernetics and Cybersyn notes, the ”rainbow” books (DoD/NSA/NCSC),
standards as primary sources, and finally Hackers.

philosophy of mathematics and computer science, cryptography in science
fiction, robots as scapegoats

Primary and sec. sources : unfinished software, manuals, ads…

an overview of
French computer science (prosopography)

More primary sources : UNIX, PC magazines …

Operating systems before or outside of modern BSD, GNU and Linux.

Ideologies of computer scientists and technologists

British computer science history, primary sources : conferences, etc.

The history and sociology of computer science and technology. A historiography and source material. [printer quality]

VG, PC and hacker magazines; applied and theoretical computer graphics;
cyberpunk.

Black science fiction; virtual bodies; Community Memory project; more hacker
magazines; counter-intelligence in Indonesia; conspiracies…

Technology journalists transitioned from fairly obscure figures to in demand
stars of the news and publishing world. This work retraces the origins and
ascension of this now dominant social group, producers of ruling discourses;
based on now largely forgotten publications of the 1980s as well as better known,
experimental magazine Mondo 2000.…[Read more]

Primary sources (hacker magazines, blog posts, scientific
publications…), topics (BSD, electronic music) and left-over… *older re-upload, extermal

Primary sources (course materials), topics (Hong Kong, Shenzhen…) *older re-upload, external

An overview relating to staff, authors, contributors, institutions and events is
provided, as well as table of contents for issues 1 to 11 of Mondo 2000, 5 and
6 of Reality Hackers, and 4 of High Frontiers; covering pre-history, beginnings
all the way up to “symbolic” end of this hacker magazine which originated as a
drug, science, art newspaper.

Organization (of the book) : Networks. Knowledge. Pleasure.

Broad trends in the representation of computer technology in manga history
are described, This analysis is based on major, works of the medium, (Umezu’s
classic horror The Drifting Classroom to Umaru-chan’s last volume), both pio-
neering and uncertain, covering roughly the period from 1970 to 2020. *older re-upload

We argue that in computer science, programming languages is one area where
the question of epistemological idealism may arise : we propose that Lisp can be
considered representative of what we call a “language waiting to be discovered”,
as we put, while Perl conforms more closely to the model of a language created;
additional examples from the…[Read more]

Due to the multitude of terminologies brought on by the emergence of the “purely
functional” approach in operating systems, such a document seemed warranted;
Some terms are brand new, others should be familiar but have been re-purposed
while others yet though established have been replaced.
Based on an extensive review of the existing lit…[Read more]