Project detail

Software for Europe: Czech(oslovak) participation in the ALGOL effort

Duration: 01.07.2007 — 30.06.2010

Funding resources

Czech Science Foundation - Eurocores

- whole funder (2007-07-01 - 2010-06-30)

On the project

The history of software, unlike the history of hardware, has not been given such attention until recently. The development of software includes to a great extent the exchange of ideas between computer scientists and/or programmers, which in the case of Europe can be well observed e.g. on the case of ALGOL. Also in Czechoslovakia of that time, ALGOL soon became the programming language number one.The first Czech programmers, usually mathematicians or electrical engineers, form an inherent part of the history of programming. The problems they encountered were not always of technical nature. Within the Software for Europe project, the case of the Czech Republic (Czechoslovakia) offers a view to the other side of the Iron Curtain.

Keywords
software, IBM, ALGOL, implementace, využití počítačů

Mark

GEINE/07/E008

Default language

English

People responsible

Durnová Helena, Mgr., Ph.D. - principal person responsible

Units

Department of Mathematics
- beneficiary (2006-09-25 - not assigned)

Results

DURNOVÁ, H. Matematické stroje. In 28. mezináýrodní konference historie matematiky. Praha: matfyzpress, 2007. s. 24-25. ISBN: 978-80-7378-016-6.
Detail

DURNOVÁ, H. Antonín Svoboda (1907-1980) - průkopník výpočetní techniky v Československu. Pokroky matematiky, fyziky a astronomie, 2007, roč. 52, č. 4, s. 322-329. ISSN: 0032-2423.
Detail

DURNOVÁ, H. Matematikové u matematických strojů. Praha: 2010. s. 1-13.
Detail

DURNOVÁ, H.; PAJU, P. Computing Close to the Iron Curtain: Inter/national computing practices in Czechoslovakia and Finland, 1945-1970. Comparative Technology Transfer and Society, 2010, vol. 2009 (7), no. 3, p. 303-322. ISSN: 1542-0132.
Detail

DURNOVÁ, H. Sovietization of Czechoslovak computing: rise and fall of the SAPO project. IEEE ANNALS OF THE HISTORY OF COMPUTING, 2010, vol. 32, no. 2, p. 21-31. ISSN: 1058-6180.
Detail

Responsibility: Durnová Helena, Mgr., Ph.D.