TY - GEN
T1 - A Little-Known Chapter in the History of Computing in Belgium: The Machine Mathématique IRSIA-FNRS
AU - d'Udekem-Gevers, Marie
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Based on original documents, this article deals with the first stored program computer designed and built in Belgium in the early 1950's, the Machine Mathématique IRSIA-FNRS (MMIF). After addressing the history of this prototype, it describes the Machine and highlights its specificities. Then, showing how the computing techniques that led to this machine were originally disseminated in Belgium, it underlines the Swiss (particularly Eidgenǒssische Technische Hochschule (ETH)) influence on this project.
AB - Based on original documents, this article deals with the first stored program computer designed and built in Belgium in the early 1950's, the Machine Mathématique IRSIA-FNRS (MMIF). After addressing the history of this prototype, it describes the Machine and highlights its specificities. Then, showing how the computing techniques that led to this machine were originally disseminated in Belgium, it underlines the Swiss (particularly Eidgenǒssische Technische Hochschule (ETH)) influence on this project.
KW - Belgium
KW - dissemination of innovations
KW - history of computing
KW - stored program computer
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-662-44208-1_13
DO - 10.1007/978-3-662-44208-1_13
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84906302938
SN - 978-3-662-44207-4
VL - 431
T3 - IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
SP - 146
EP - 161
BT - IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
PB - Springer
CY - Heidelberg NY Dordrecht London
T2 - 11th IFIP TC9 International Conference on Human Choice and Computers, HCC 2014
Y2 - 30 July 2014 through 1 August 2014
ER -