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Ahrons, Richard W. “Industrial Research and Microcircuitry at RCA: The Early Years, 1953-1963.” IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 34:1 (January-March 2012): 60-73.

Aspray, William. “Editorial: Changes to the Journal.” Information & Culture: A Journal of History 47:1 (February-March 2012).

Aumann, Philipp. “The Distinctiveness of a Unifying Science: Cybernetics’ Way to West Germany.” IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 33:4 (October-December 2011): 17-27.

Aylen, Jonathan. “Bloodhound on my Trail: Building the Ferranti Argus Process Control Computer.” International Journal for the History of Engineering & Technology 82:1 (January 2012): 1-36.

Baker, Stephen. Final Jeopardy: Man vs. Machine and the Quest to Know Everything. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011).

Brier, Stephen and Joshua Brown. “The September 11 Digital Archive.” Radical History Review 111 (Fall 2011): 101-109.

Brock, David C. and David A. Laws. “The Early History of Microcircuitry: An Overview.” IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 34:1 (January-March 2012): 7-19.

Burton, Chris, et al. Alan Turing and His Contemporaries. (BSC, 2012).

Ceruzzi, Paul. Computing: A Concise History. (MIT Press, 2012).

Choi, Hyungsub and Takushi Otani. “Failure to Launch: Tarui Yasuo, the Quadrupole Transistor, and the Meanings of the IC in Postwar Japan.” IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 34:1 (January-March 2012): 48-59.

Cooper, Barry S. and J. van Leeuwen. Alan Turing: His Work and Impact. (Elsevier Science, 2012).

Cortada, James W. “Shaping Information History as an Intellectual Discipline.” Information & Culture: A Journal of History 47:2 (May-June 2012): forthcoming.

Cronon, William. “Scholarly Authority in a Wikified World.” Perspectives on History 50:2 (February 2012): 5-6.

Dyson, George. Turing’s Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe. (Pantheon Books, 2012).

Ensmenger, Nathan. “Is Chess the Drosophilia of Artificial Intelligence? A Social History of an Algorithm.” Social Studies of Science 42:1 (February 2012): 5-30.

Ensmenger, Nathan. “From Computer Celebrities to Historical Biography.” [Think Piece] IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 33:4 (October-December 2011): 86-88.

Frana, Philip. “An Interview with Stephen Cook.” Communications of the ACM 55:1 (January 2012): 41-46.

Gabrys, Jennifer. Digital Rubbish: A Natural History of Electronics. (University of Michigan Press, 2011).

Galloway, Patricia. “Playpens for Mind Children: Continuities in the Practice of Programming.” Information & Culture: A Journal of History 47:1 (February-March 2012).

Gugerli, David. “The World as Database: On the Relation of Software Development, Query Methods, and Interpretive Independence.” Information & Culture: A Journal of History 47:3 (August-September 2012): forthcoming.

Haigh, Thomas. “The IBM PC: From Beige Box to Industry Standard.” Communications of the ACM 55:1 (January 2012): 35-37.

Halevi, Leor. “The Consumer Jihad: Boycott Fatwas and Nonviolent Resistance on the World Wide Web.” International Journal of Middle East Studies 44:1 (February 2012): 45-70.

Ince, Darrel. The Computer: A Very Short Introduction. (Oxford University Press, 2011).

Jaeger, Paul, et al. “The Internet and the Evolution of Library Research: The Perspective of One Longitudinal Study.” Library Quarterly 82:1 (January 2012): 75-86.

Kline, Ronald R. “Cybernetics, Automata Studies, and the Dartmouth Conference on Artificial Intelligence.” IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 33:4 (October-December 2011): 5-16.

Laws, David and Michael Riordan. “Making Micrologic: The Development of the Planar IC at Fairchild Semiconductor, 1957-1963.” IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 34:1 (January-March 2012): 20-36.

Lunenfeld, Peter. The Secret War Between Downloading and Uploading: Tales of the Computer as Culture Machine. (MIT Press, 2011).

Martin, Ian. “Structuring Information Work: Ferranti and Martins Bank, 1952-1968.” Information & Culture: A Journal of History 47:3 (August-September 2012): forthcoming.

McGee, Andrew Meade. “Stating the Field: Institutions and Outcomes in Computer History.” [Think Piece] IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 34:1 (January-March 2012): 102-104.

Misa, Thomas. “Computer Science: Digital Dawn.” Nature 483 (March 1, 2012): 32-33. [Reviews George Dyson’s Turing’s Cathedral]

Misa, Thomas J. “Retrospective: Steven P. Jobs (1955–2011).” Science 334 (18 Nov. 2011): 919. <dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1216019>

Mitnick, Kevin D. Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World’s Most Wanted Hacker. (Little, Brown and Company, 2011).

Modarres, Ali. “Beyond the Digital Divide.” National Civic Review 100:3 (Fall 2011): 4-7.

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November, Joseph. Biomedical Computing: Digitizing Life in the United States. (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012).

O’Regan, Gerald. A Brief History of Computing. (Springer, 2012).

Oudshoom, Nelly. “How Places Matter: Telecare Technologies and the Changing Spatial Dimensions of Healthcare.” Social Studies of Science 42:1 (February 2012): 121-142.

Peters, Benjamin. “Normalizing Soviet Cybernetics.” Information & Culture: A Journal of History 47:2 (May-June 2012): forthcoming.

Phipps, Charles. “The Early History of ICs at Texas Instruments: A Personal View.” IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 34:1 (January-March 2012): 37-47.

Russell, Andrew W. “Modularity: An Interdisciplinary History of an Ordering Concept.” Information & Culture: A Journal of History 47:3 (August-September 2012): forthcoming.

Sach, Edgar A. “Westinghouse: Microcircuit Pioneer from Molecular Electronics to ICs.” IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 34:1 (January-March 2012): 74-82.

Sato, Yasushi. “An Inconspicuous Giant: NTT’s Role in the Development of Software Engineering in Japan.” IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 33:4 (October-December 2011): 28-37.

Solcova, Alena and Michal Krizek. “Vladimir Vand (1911-1968): Pioneer of Computational Methods in Crystallography.” IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 33:4 (October-December 2011): 38-44.

Valorinta, Mikko and Tomi Nokelainen. “Introduction and Early Use of Computers in the Finnish Retail Industry.” IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 33:4 (October-December 2011): 45-55.

Walden, David, ed. A Culture of Innovation: Insider Accounts of Computing and Life at BBN. (Waterside Publishing, 2011).

Complied by Jeffrey R. Yost


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