Publications related to the History of Computing

B. E. Carpenter, The Hunting of the Babbages: A Decade in the Life of Garry Tee, submitted for publication, 2025.

• Also see:
  Garry Tee box #21 “Babbage” contents

B. E. Carpenter, S. Manoharan, Information Technology Pioneers of Aotearoa New Zealand,
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, 47(2) 44-58 (2025).
DOI: 10.1109/mahc.2025.3548545.
Preprint, as submitted for publication.

B. E. Carpenter, C. Calude, M. J. Dinneen, G. Dobbie (Editors), In Memory of Robert W. Doran,
CDMTCS Research Report CDMTCS-580, University of Auckland (November 2024).

B. E. Carpenter, Peter Cashin, An Overseas Experience with Hypertext and Packet Switching,
CDMTCS Research Report CDMTCS-577, University of Auckland (February 2024).
This is an "oral history" interview conducted by email.

B. E. Carpenter, The First Computer in New Zealand,
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 42(2) 33-41 (2020).
DOI: 10.1109/MAHC.2020.2990647.
Preprint, as submitted for publication.

• Also see:
  The clandestine computer on The Terrace,
  Chapter 1 in From Yesterday to Tomorrow: 60 years of tech in New Zealand (Janet Toland, Ed.),
  IT Professionals New Zealand (2021)
  ISBN 978-0-473-58175-6.
• A 1969 successor.

B. E. Carpenter, A Meeting that Missed its Mark: the Paris Conference of 1951,
The Rutherford Journal 5 (2018).
If that looks wrong, please see this version or this preprint.

B. E. Carpenter, R. W. Doran, Turing's Zeitgeist,
Chapter 22 (pp 223-231) in The Turing Guide, (Jack Copeland et al, Ed.),
Oxford University Press, 2017,
ISBN 978-0-19-874783-3,
Preprint (2014).

B. E. Carpenter, R. W. Doran, John Womersley: Applied Mathematician and Pioneer of Modern Computing,
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, 36(2) 60-70 (2014).
DOI: 10.1109/MAHC.2014.25
Preprint, as submitted for publication.

• Erratum: the URL for Reference 24 should be:
  https://www.archives.gov/iwg/declassified-records/rg-330-defense-secretary/foreign-scientist-case-files.pdf
• Also see:
  B. E. Carpenter, R. W. Doran, John Womersley Bibliography,
  CDMTCS Research Report CDMTCS-490, University of Auckland (October 2015).

B. E. Carpenter, contribution to An Asia Internet History - First Decade (1980-1990), Kilnam Chon, Editor,
Seoul National University Press (2013)
ISBN: 978-89-521-1523-2.

B. E. Carpenter, Network Geeks – How They Built the Internet,
Springer (2013)
ISBN: 978-1-4471-5024-4.

B. E. Carpenter, contribution to A History of International Research Networking: the People who Made it Happen,
Howard Davies, Beatrice Bressan, Editors,
Wiley (2010)
ISBN: 978-3-527-32710-2.

B. E. Carpenter, Turing and ACE; Lessons from a 1946 Computer Design,
Proceedings of the 15th CERN School of Computing, CERN Report 93-03, pp 230-234 (1993)
DOI: 10.5170/CERN-1993-003

B. E. Carpenter, R. W. Doran, Editors, A.M.Turing's ACE Report of 1946 and other papers,
Vol. 10 in the Charles Babbage Institute Reprint Series,
MIT Press (1986)
ISBN: 0-262-03114-0

B. E. Carpenter, R. W. Doran, The other Turing machine,
Computer Journal 20 269-279 (1977).
DOI: 10.1093/comjnl/20.3.269
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