@inproceedings{27bb9c43734c479885d08ed1a7c22d58,
title = "Telling the long and beautiful (Hi)story of automation!",
abstract = "The purpose of this paper is to suggest and justify a framework for the history of computing that interests a wide public. The aim is to set the history of computing in the much broader context of automation, while also addressing the evolution of ideas. It suggests first a new detailed classification of programs (in the broad sense). Then it tries in particular to sketch out a “phylogenesis” of automation from the 12th to 19th centuries in Europe. It discusses various automatic devices: particularly, clocks and their annexes, but also organs, games, looms and early computers. Finally, it addresses the stored-program computer and high-level languages.",
keywords = "Automation, Blaise Pascal, Charles Babbage, Clocks and their annexes, Conditional branching, Languages, Programming, Regulation, Relevance to the general public, Sequence, Stored-program computer",
author = "Marie D{\textquoteright}Udekem-Gevers",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2013.; IFIP WG 9.7 International Conference on the History of Computing, HC 2013 ; Conference date: 17-06-2013 Through 18-06-2013",
year = "2013",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-642-41650-7_17",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783642416491",
series = "IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology",
publisher = "Springer New York",
pages = "173--195",
editor = "Tilly Blyth and Roger Johnson and Arthur Tatnall",
booktitle = "Making the History of Computing Relevant - IFIP WG 9.7 International Conference, HC 2013, Revised Selected Papers",
address = "United States",
}