History of Nordic Computing 3: Third IFIP WG 9.7 Conference, HiNC 3, Stockholm, Sweden, October 18-20, 2010, Revised Selected Papers

Front Matter....Pages -
A World Full of Computers: How Did That Happen?....Pages 1-12
Computerization of the Norwegian Land Register: An Early Example of Outsourcing and Still a Model for Good Practice....Pages 13-21
Controlling the Battlefield: Computing and Operational Command in the Swedish Armed Forces, 1966–1989....Pages 22-27
The Use of Computers for Controlling Electricity Flows in Sweden, 1950–1980....Pages 28-34
Operations Analysis Computing at FFI, 1970–1995....Pages 35-42
Re-engineering Norwegian Research Libraries, 1970–1980....Pages 43-55
Instruments of Surveillance Welfare: Computerizing Unemployment and Health in 1960s and 1970s Sweden....Pages 56-64
History of Electronic Prescriptions in Sweden: From Time-Sharing Systems via Smartcards to EDI....Pages 65-73
Electronic Health Records in Sweden: From Administrative Management to Clinical Decision Support....Pages 74-82
The Totally Integrated Management Information System in 1960s Sweden....Pages 83-91
The History of the Swedish ATM: Sparfrämjandet and Metior....Pages 92-100
Electronic Securities: The Introduction of an Electronic Registration and Settlement System for the Norwegian Securities Market....Pages 101-107
How New Computing Technology Reformed the Audit Profession....Pages 108-116
History of Digital Dating: “Computer-Balls” and Digital Pairing in Finland from the 1960s to the Present....Pages 117-126
Collaborations between Engineers and Artists in the Making of Computer Art in Sweden, 1967–1986....Pages 127-136
IBM’s Norwegian Grammar Project, 1988–1991....Pages 137-149
Computer Courses in Finnish Schools, 1980–1995....Pages 150-158
Teacher Pioneers in the Introduction of Computing Technology in the Swedish Upper Secondary School....Pages 159-167
Computing on the Desktop: From Batch to Online in Two Large Danish Service Bureaus....Pages 168-175
UTOPIA: Participatory Design from Scandinavia to the World....Pages 176-186
Designing Democracy: The UTOPIA-Project and the Role of the Nordic Labor Movement in Technological Change during the 1970s and 1980s....Pages 187-195
Early History of Computing in Denmark....Pages 196-206
Making Business of a Revolutionary New Technology: The Eckert-Mauchly Company, 1945–1951....Pages 207-214
IBM Manufacturing in the Nordic Countries....Pages 215-227
The Presence of the IBM Branch Office in Iceland, 1967–1992....Pages 228-233
Personal Computers: A Gateway to Personal Computing....Pages 234-239
Norwegian Computer Technology: Founding a New Industry....Pages 240-248
The Founding, Fantastic Growth, and Fast Decline of Norsk Data AS....Pages 249-257
The Norwegian National IT Plan, 1987–1990: Whence It Came, What It Was, and How It Ended....Pages 258-270
Before the Internet: Early Experiences of Computer Mediated Communication....Pages 271-277
The Baby Networks: Nordic Positions Before the Internet....Pages 278-286
Development of Internet Technology and Norwegian Participation....Pages 287-296
The Internet Development Process: Observations and Reflections....Pages 297-304
The Use of Interpretation for Data Acquisition and Control: Its Impact on Software Development and Project Management....Pages 305-314
Computer Systems Performance Engineering in Trondheim: Origins and Development, 1970–1995....Pages 315-322
Provisioning of Highly Reliable Real-Time Systems....Pages 323-330
Information Modeling: Forty Years of Friendship....Pages 331-338
Scandinavian Contributions to Object-Oriented Modeling Languages....Pages 339-349
Dansk Datamatik Center....Pages 350-359
SISU: The Swedish Institute for Systems Development....Pages 360-367
Cloud Computing in the 1970s: The Discovery of Hash Based Relational Algebra....Pages 368-374
The TEMPORA Approach: Information Systems Development Based on Explicit Business Rules with Time....Pages 375-382
RAMATIC: A Case Shell Platform....Pages 383-389
Computer Science Education at Helsinki University of Technology: The First Ten Years (1968–1978)....Pages 390-398
Provincial Designer Design: A Creative Mix of Hard Restrictions and Soft Visions of an Information Systems Educational Program....Pages 399-408
Teaching Image Analysis at DIKU....Pages 409-415
Simula: Mother Tongue for a Generation of Nordic Programmers....Pages 416-424
Precursors of the IT Nation: Computer Use and Control in Swedish Society, 1955–1985....Pages 425-432
Text Mining and Qualitative Analysis of an IT History Interview Collection....Pages 433-443
A Classification of Methods and Contributions in the Historiography of Nordic Computing....Pages 444-452
Research Directions Profile in the Computing Museum of the Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Latvia (IMCS)....Pages 453-461
What Can We Learn from the History of Nordic Computing?....Pages 462-463
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