History of Computing Projects

These are the course projects developed by the students in the joint-campus History of Computing course at the University of Washington-Seattle, University of California-San Diego, and University of California-Berkeley.

• The History of Artificial Intelligence

  [ history-ai.pdf ]
  Brian McGuire, Chris Smith, Gary Yang, Ting Huang

• TELON and the Decline of CASE

  [ TELON.doc and TheDeclineOfCASE.doc ]
  DG Christensen

• Impact of Terrorism on Computing

  [ terrorism.doc ]
  Somnath Banerjee

• A History of Computing in Medicine

  [ computers-medicine.doc ]
  Genevieve Orchard, Rebecca Zou, Kevin Clement, Matthew Case

• The Font Wars

  [ font-wars.pdf ]
  James Shimada

• Online Advertising

  [ advertising.doc ]
  Dave Fry, Tommy Sanguinetti

• Bringing the Future Closer: The Rise of the National Academic Supercomputer Centers

  [ kwalsh-project.doc ]
  Kevin Walsh

• History & Impact of Hacking

  [ hacking.pdf ]
  Sandra Lemon, Michael Frederick, Vikas Rajvanshy, Hansen Liou, Carmelo Kintana

• Innovation, IP, and the Protection of Software

  [ ip-innovation.pdf ]
  Brian Leubitz, Michael Kazanjy, Andrew Pardoe, Tao Yue, Samuel Lester

• Quest for Apple

  [ apple.pdf ]
  Shaofeng Liu, Jing Zhu

• The ENIAC, War, and Women

  [ eniac.doc ]
  Amanda Bui, StephanieTran, NikkiFernandez

• Failures of Large Computer Companies

  [ failures.pdf ]
  Bruce Sherwin, Avichal Singh, Archie Russell, Chris Scoville, James Vasil, Bernt Wahl

• Standards Wars

  [ standards-wars.pdf ]
  Armin Hornung, Gleb Krivosheev, Noor Singh, Jeff Bilger

• History of Computing's Effects on the Creative Industry

  [ creativity.doc ]
  Russell Clarke

• Evolution of Software Defined Radios in Military Aircraft Communications

  [ radios.doc ]
  David Burrill

• Computers in Education

  [ computers-education.doc ]
  Evilia Ramirez, Carla Cooper

• A Look at Software Performance Since 1940s

  [ sw-performance.pdf ]
  Igor Zinkovsky, Nikolay Topilski

• History of Computing Abroad

  [ computing-abroad.doc ]
  Mark McCasey, Ovidiu Elenes, Jerry Fu, Gani Nazirov, John Ordunez

• Piracy in the Digital Age

  [ digital-piracy.pdf ]
  Dana Dahlstrom, Nathan Farrington, Ryan Roemer, Nabil Schear, Daniel Gobera

• The Past and Present of Supercomputing

  [ supercomputing.doc ]
  David Mortenson, Luis Eduardo Cabrera

• The History of Computer Gaming

  [ gaming.doc ]
  Osama Mazahir, Asad Jawahar, Samar Abbas, Imran Ali

• The History of Modern Computing And How it has contributed to the Political Processes

  [ computers-politics.doc ]
  Liya Getachew

• The History of Modern 64-bit Computing

  [ history-64-bit.pdf ]
  Neil Padgett, Matthew Kerner

• History of Computer Simulation

  [ simulation.doc ]
  Dave Kong