The History of Computing Science: From the Past to the Present Lecture presented by Michelle A. Hoyle explaining how computers and computing science arose from using sticks with notches for counting, to the massive explosion of personal computers in the 1980s. lecture.eingang.org/Read more
The Modern History of Computing Historical survey from Babbage onward; by B. Jack Copeland from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. plato.stanford.edu/entries/computing-history/Read more
Tools For Thought by Howard Rheingold. Online copy of well known 1985 book on the invention of computing; includes Babbage, Turing, von Neumann, Engelbart, PARC, Kay, and Atari. www.rheingold.com/texts/tft/Read more
Triumph of the Nerds Biographies, an interactive game, and a questions and answers forum trace the birth of the personal computer at this PBS companion site. www.pbs.org/nerds/Read more
