Computer Science · History of Computing
Computing Pioneer Biography
A topic within History of Computing, itself one of 8 topics in that field and part of Computer Science.
Reading for History of Computing
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No prior grounding assumed.
- EssayAs We May ThinkVannevar Bush, 1945· ≈8,000 words
Proposes the memex, an associative trail-following machine, and anticipates hypertext by two decades.
- EssayThe Cathedral and the BazaarEric S. Raymond, 1997
Open, parallel development can outperform closed planning because bug-finding parallelises even when design does not.