Grier D. A. The Rise and Fall of the Committee on Mathematical Tables and Other Aids to Computation // AHC, Vol. 23, № 2, April-June 2001. P. 38-49

Grier D. A. The Rise and Fall of the Committee on Mathematical Tables and Other Aids to Computation // AHC, Vol. 23, № 2, April-June 2001. P. 38-49.

Grier D. A. When Computers Were Human. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. 424 p.

A wonderful book, filled with fascinating facts about important people and activities that most of us have never heard about. I hope it makes more people aware that the original point of electronic computers was to do computing, to speed up the essential work that had been done by human computers for centuries. We often say that electronic computers can do in seconds what used to take months. This book describes what it was like for human computers to actually spend months doing it. Like all good history, this book teaches us that the legacy of human achievement that we enjoy did not grow on trees.

This reprint of an early RAND Memorandum by the author describes the thirteen-year life of the JOHNNIAC computer, a Princeton-class machine designed and built at The RAND Corporation in 1953. The history presented here is based on documents and recollections of the individuals involved in the creation of JOHNNIAC.

Gvozdanovic, Jadranka C. (ed.) Indo-European Numerals. Berlin, N.-Y.: Walter de Gruyter, Inc., 1992. 944 p.

В том числе история Arpanet. At last, Hafner and Lyon have written a well-researched story of the origins of the Internet substantiated by extensive interviews with its creators who delve into many interesting details such as the controversy surrounding the adoption of our now beloved "@" sign as the separator of usernames and machine addresses. Essential reading for anyone interested in the past - and the future - of the Net specifically, and telecommunications generally

Hamadanizadeh, Javad. The Trigonometric Tables of Al-Kashi in his Zij-I Khaqani // Historia Mathematica, vol. 7, February 1980. P. 38-45.

A theoretical physicist at Cambridge, Douglas Hartree is best known for his work in numerical methods and the machines that could be used to calculate them with increasing speed and sophistication.

This reprint of Hartree's principal work also includes his inaugural Cambridge lecture, Calculating Machines: Recent and Prospective Developments and Their Impact on Mathematical Physics, which is extremely difficult to obtain and which makes ideal preliminary reading for the main set of lectures presented in Calculating Instruments and Machines. In these, Hartree provided the first comprehensive survey of the significant developments in computation that were going on at the time-the main directions of development in storage systems, serial machines, and parallel programming and coding, and particularly with high-speed automatic digital machines that were precursors of the modern stored program computer.

Calculating Instruments and Machines was originally published in 1949 by the University of Illinois Press. It is Volume VI in The Babbage Institute Reprint Series.

Hawkins W. F. The First Calculating Machine (John Napier, 1617) // AHC, 1988, № 1. P. 37-51.

Hayashi, Takao. Aryabhatas Rule and Table for Sine-Differences // Historia Mathematica, vol. 24, November 1997. P. 396-406.

This paper gives both a new interpretation of Ариабхатаs rule for sine-differences prescribed in the second chapter of his “Ариабхатиа” (A.D. 499/510), one of the oldest astronomical texts in India, and a hypothesis about the origin of his table of sine-differences given in the first chapter of the same work

This article begins a three-part series, presenting an overview of events in IBM that preceded today’s versatility in handling Far Eastern languages in the IT arena. Here, Part 1 analyzes the complexities and characteristics of the Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Thai, and other Far Eastern languages in the context of 1960s technologies and early IT products that emerged.

The authors describe the intricacies of character encoding, processing, and printing involved in IBM’s successful efforts to develop the first commercial general Kanji computer system. Later during this time frame, the first commercial Kanji system was introduced. IBM was also launching development of the first computerized newspaper publishing system to offer Kanji capability.

This article describes the coordination of worldwide efforts in IBM that were launched in the 1970s to ensure implementation of Far Eastern language requirements with IBM products, in order that IBM would maintain its leading role in the IT industry.