Category:Computing and electronics

Background

The ENIAC

Computers and electronics play an enormous role in today's society, impacting everything from
communication and medicine to science.

Although computers are typically viewed as a modern invention involving electronics, computing
predates the use of electrical devices. The ancient abacus was perhaps the first digital computing
device. Analog computing dates back several millennia as primitive computing devices were used as
early as the ancient Greeks and Romans, the most known complex of which being the Antikythera
mechanism. Later devices such as the castle clock (1206), slide rule (c. 1624) and Babbage's
Difference Engine (1822) are other examples of early mechanical analog computers.

The introduction of electric power in the 19th century led to the rise of electrical and hybrid electro-
mechanical devices to carry out both digital (Hollerith punch-card machine) and analog (Bush’s
differential analyzer) calculation. Telephone switching came to be based on this technology, which
led to the development of machines that we would recognize as early computers.

The presentation of the Edison Effect in 1885 provided the theoretical background for electronic
devices. Originally in the form of vacuum tubes, electronic components were rapidly integrated into
electric devices, revolutionizing radio and later television. It was in computers however, where the
full impact of electronics was felt. Analog computers used to calculate ballistics were crucial to the
outcome of World War II, and the Colossus and the ENIAC, the two earliest electronic digital
computers, were developed during the war.

With the invention of solid-state electronics, the transistor and ultimately the integrated circuit,
computers would become much smaller and eventually affordable for the average consumer. Today
“computers” are present in nearly every aspect of everyday life, from watches to automobiles.
 STARS Articles
STARS articles are peer-reviewed articles on the history of major developments in technology.
Available in the computers and information processing category are:

 Differential Analyzers
 Early Punched Card Equipment, 1880 - 1951
 Early Popular Computers, 1950 - 1970
 Electronic Calculators: Desktop to Pocket
 IBM System/360
 Inventing the Computer
 Software Industry
 Word Processing for the Japanese Language

Subcategories
 Automation - The use of information technologies and control systems to reduce the need
for human labor in the production of goods and services
 Circuitry - Included are topics which deal with the workings and issues dealing with circuitry,
such as circuit noise, silicon on insulator technology and circuit synthesis
 Computational and artificial intelligence - Covers aspects dealing with artificial
intelligence from a computational standpoint
 Computer applications - Various practical applications of computing such as computer
aided design and telecommunications community
 Computer architecture - The inner workings of computers, including data structures,
system buses and distributed computing
 Computer classes - Different kinds of computers, such as calculators, analog and digital
computers.
 Computer networks - Topics dealing with networking, such as IP networks, multicasting and
WAN.
 Computer science - The mathematical, algorithmic and scientific elements of computing are
included here, such as algorithm analysis, programming and graph theory.
 Computing - Various types of computing such as high performance, mobile and optical
computing
 Consumer electronics - Electronic devices designed for consumer purchases such as sound
systems
 Contacts - Electrical contacts for joining electrical circuits
 Data systems - Topics dealing with systems that process data
 Digital systems - Systems like metropolitan area networks and token networks are covered
under this category
 Distributed computing - All aspects of distributed computing including client-server
systems, peer to peer computing and file servers are included in this category
 Electron devices - Electron devices and tubes such as cathode ray tubes, vacuum tubes and
electron guns
 Electronic components - Topics pertaining to components such as capacitors, resistors,
diodes and switches
 Electronic equipment manufacture - Various elements related to the manufacturing
element of components, circuitry and devices are included in this category
 Filtering - Different types of filtering methods such as active, Bragg and harmonic filters
 High-speed electronics - Includes integrated circuits, networks, and Ultrafast electronics.
 Image processing - Topics relating to processing of computer images
 Imaging - Devices which display an object's outward appearance
 Industrial electronics - Power electronics used in an industrial setting
 Information display - Electronic and liquid screens and displays
 Information theory - The processing of information via the use of applied mathematics and
electrical engineering
 Integrated circuits - One of the 20th century's largest breakthroughs in electronics,
integrated circuits paved the way for miniaturized electronics
 Logic devices - Logic gates and arrays are among the concepts which provide a foundation
for digital circuits
 Memory - Computer memory such as analog memory, flash memory and read only memory
are included
 Multitasking - Multitasking is the act of performing two or more tasks at the same time
 Open systems - Computer systems which provide a platform of interoperability
 Oscillators - Various kinds of oscillators and their applications related to electric devices
 Pattern recognition - Methods of using computers to recognize patterns such as character
recognition, data mining and text recognition
 Pervasive computing - A ubiquitous computing model in which information processing is
integrated with common objects
 Sensors - A sensor is a measurement device which produces a readable signal
 Software & software engineering - Topics dealing with various elements of software and
its design
 Solid state circuits - Devices composed of a solid material where the flow of electronics is
confined to the solid material
 System recovery - Various aspects of system recovery and backup such as core dumps and
debugging
 Thermal management of electronics - Topics dealing with heat in electronics
 Tunable circuits and devices - Topics dealing with circuits and devices which may be tuned
such as RLC circuits

Pages in category "Computing and

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 New Technologies in the Summer of 1959
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 First-Hand:39 years with IBM

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 First-Hand:A Birth of Gapless Metal Oxide Surge Arrester (MOSA) and Early Days of Its
Promotion Activities
 First-Hand:A Brief Account of Spell Checking as Developed by Houghton Mifflin Company
 First-Hand:A Hidden Voltage Source
 First-Hand:A Look Back over the First 50 Years of IEEE
 First-Hand:A Memorable Period
 A Small-C cross-compiler for the IBM 1401
 Archives:A Survey of MOS Process Technologies
 M. Robert Aaron
 Abbey Road Studios
 ACE Computer
 Jeanne Clare Adams
 Robert W. Adams
 Oral-History:Willis Adcock
 Oral-History:Michael Adler
 Archives:Aerospace Computer Characteristics and Design Trends
 Howard Aiken
 Oral-History:William Ross Aiken
 Oral-History:Rachid Alami
 Alan Conrad Bovik
 Samuel N. Alexander
 Oral-History:Alicia Casals
 Oral-History:Royal P. Allaire
 Oral-History:Frances "Fran" Allen
 Oral-History:Allison Okamura
 Saul Amarel
 Amateur Radio
 Milestones:American Standard Code for Information Interchange ASCII, 1963
 First-Hand:An Eclectic Electrical Engineer
 Oral-History:Fred Andrews
 Oliver L. Angevine
 Antenna Measurements
 Dimitri A. Antoniadis
 Antun Domic
 Tomonori Aoyama
 Milestones:Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC)
 Milestones:Apollo Guidance Computer, 1962-1972
 Erdal Arikan
 Oral-History:Ronald Arkin
 ARPANET
 Milestones:Inception of the ARPANET, 1969
 ASCII
 Oral-History:Eric Ash
 Kevin Ashton
 Oral-History:William Aspray
 Mansour H. Assaf
 Morton M. Astrahan
 Oral-History:Karl Astrom
 Karl J. Astrom
 Archives:Karl Aström Interview
 John V. Atanasoff
 Milestones:Atanasoff-Berry Computer, 1939
 Archives:Mike Athans Interview
 Oral-History:Chris Atkeson
 De Forest Audion
 Isaac L. Auerbach
 Oral-History:Werner F. Auerbacher
 David H. Auston
 Electrical Power Connectors - Australia
 Archives:Jack Avins, The Essence of Engineering
 Oral-History:Ayanna Howard
 Hertha Ayrton

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 Archives:The Computer Pioneers: Garry J. Tee Discusses Charles Babbage
 Archives:The Computer Pioneers: Garry J. Tee Discusses Charles Babbage, segment 1
 Archives:The Computer Pioneers: Garry J. Tee Discusses Charles Babbage, segment 2
 Giorgio Baccarani
 Richard J. Backe
 John Backus
 Oral-History:Jean Bacon
 Victor Bahl
 Oral-History:James J. Bailey and Rosalie Dunn
 Oral-History:Robert Baim
 Oral-History:Kenneth T. Bainbridge
 John Logie Baird
 Oral-History:Ruzena Bajcsy (2002)
 Oral-History:Jack Balde
 Henry Baltes
 Amir Ban
 Kaustav Banerjee
 Sanjay Kumar Banerjee
 First-Hand:Banging the Large Drum Slowly
 Avram Bar-Cohen
 Oral-History:Paul Baran
 John S. Baras
 Bardeen, Brattain, Shockley invent the transistor
 William S. Barstow
 Oral-History:Lionel Barthold
 Jean Bartik
 Oral-History:Jean Bartik
 Tamer Basar
 Archives:Batch-Processed Alphanumeric Displays
 George A. Bekey
 Bell Labs
 Archives:Bell Labs & The Origins of the Multimedia Artist
 Oral-History:Maurice Bellanger
 Richard Bellman
 Oral-History:Ottorino Beltrami
 Oral-History:Leo Beranek (1996)
 Leo L. Beranek
 Horst H. Berger
 Berger Publishes Paper on Electroencephalogram
 Oral-History:Fran Berman
 Oral-History:Mary Lee Berners-Lee
 Oral-History:Tim Berners-Lee
 Claude Berrou
 Oral-History:Harold H. Beverage and H. O. Peterson
 Marek E. Bialkowski
 Oral-History:Gottfried Biegelmeier
 Dieter Bimberg
 Biology and Computers: A lesson in what is possible
 Joel S. Birnbaum
 Birth of Radio Location in the United States Navy - Chapter 4 of Radar and the Fighter
Directors
 Oral-History:Harold S. Black
 Nora Stanton Blatch
 Oral-History:Woodrow Wilson Bledsoe
 Milestones:Code-breaking at Bletchley Park during World War II, 1939-1945
 First-Hand:Bletchley Park, Station X - Memories of a Colossus Operator
 Oral-History:Ron Blicq
 Erich Bloch
 Richard M. Bloch
 Manuel Blum
 Alan Dower Blumlein
 First-Hand:BMEWS
 Oral-History:Bob Bolles
 Andrew H. Bobeck
 Oral-History:Jim Bobrow
 Oral-History:Susan Bond
 Oral-History:Gary Boone
 Henry A. H. Boot
 Oral-History:Anita Borg
 Yan Borodovsky
 Oral-History:Berthold Bosch
 Jagadish Chandra Bose
 Otis Boykin
 Nasser Bozorg-Grayeli
 John G. Brainerd
 Oliver Brand
 Walter H. Brattain
 Karl Braun
 Robert K. Brayton
 Paul Breimyer
 A Brief History of Early British Computers
 History of Broadband Impedance Matching
 Robert W. Brodersen
 Rodney A. Brooks
 Gordon Stanley Brown
 Walter L. Brown
 William C. Brown
 Oral-History:Herbert Bruch
 Michel Bruel
 Oral-History:Per Bruel
 Oral-History:Herman Bruyninckx
 Randal E. Bryant
 Buckyballs and Nanotubes
 First-Hand:Building the U.S. Navy's First Seagoing Digital System - Chapter 4 of the Story of
the Naval Tactical Data System
 Bulletin Board Systems
 Oral-History:Richard Burden
 U.S. Census Bureau
 Mark L. Burgener
 Oral-History:Arthur Burks
 Robert Page Burr
 William Burroughs
 Oral-History:C. Sidney Burrus
 Vannevar Bush
 Dennis D. Buss

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 C
 C.L. Liu
 Oral-History:James Thomas Cain
 Oral-History:Betty Campbell
 Archives:Can Direct Interaction With A Computer Serve You?
 I. Muzaffer Canay
 Federico Capasso
 Oral-History:Norm Caplan
 Oral-History:Brian Carlisle
 Oral-History:Carme Torras
 E. Finley Carter
 William S. Carter
 Altair
 Aileen Cavanagh
 Cavity Magnetron
 Archives:A Century of Electricals
 Oral-History:Vinton Cerf
 Vinton Cerf
 First-Hand:Chad is Our Most Important Product: An Engineer's Memory of Teletype
Corporation
 Oral-History:John Chadwick
 E. Leon Chaffee
 Oral-History:Britton Chance
 Anantha P. Chandrakasan
 Morris Chang
 Richard A. Chapman
 Oral-History:Charles Maerfeld
 Oral-History:John C. Chato
 Robert S. Chau
 Tze-Chiang Chen
 Anne Chiang
 Shang-Yi Chiang
 Oral-History:Marvin Chodorow
 Archives:Choosing a Minicomputer
 Henry R. Chope
 Oral-History:Howie Choset
 Stephen Y. Chou
 Sunlin Chou
 John Chowning
 Clayton M. Christensen
 Oral-History:Chuck Thorpe
 Oral-History:Fan Chung-Graham
 Archives:Circuit Design Using Personal Computers
 First-Hand:Circuit Design, Fiber Optics, Games, Detector Arrays, Voice Communications: A
Journal of an Electrical Engineer
 IEEE Circuits and Systems Society History
 Kimberly Claffy
 Oral-History:Judy Clapp
 David D. Clark
 CMOS
 Oral-History:John Coales
 John Cocke
 Edgar F. Codd
 Carlos A. Coello Coello
 Danny Cohen
 Jean-Pierre Colinge
 Colossus
 First-Hand:Commercialization of Embedded RISC Cores
 Communication Technologies and Liberation Movements
 Archives:Communications and the Computer
 IEEE Electronics Packaging Society History
 Archives:The Computer Pioneers: An Experiment in Video Oral History Part One: Origins of
Electronic Computation During World War II
 IEEE Computational Intelligence Society History
 Archives:Workshop on Computer Languages for Process Control
 Archives:Computer Aided Network and Circuit Analysis and Design
 First-Hand:Computer Hot Flashes and Cold Feet
 Computer Language Compiler
 Archives:Computer Timesharing - What Is It, and What Can it do for the Electrical Engineer
 Computer Viruses
 Computing in Poland
 Oral-History:Charles Concordia
 Frank Conrad
 Oral-History:Anthony Constantinides
 First-Hand:Contributions of Russell E. Theisen
 Lynn Conway
 Oral-History:Mary Coombs
 Oral-History:Betty Cooper
 John A. Copeland
 Oral-History:Joel Burdick
 Oral-History:Peter Corke
 Oral-History:William E. Cory
 Patrick Cousot
 Oral-History:Wayne Cowell
 M. George Craford
 John H. Crawford
 Creating Magnetic Disk Storage at IBM
 Sorin Cristoloveanu
 Jon Crowcroft
 First-Hand:Cryo CMOS and 40+ layer PC Boards - How Crazy is this?
 Oral-History:C. Chapin Cutler

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 Oral-History:Luigi Dadda
 Thomas W. Dakin
 Raffaello D'andrea
 Oral-History:Ron Daniel
 Sidney Darlington
 Sunil R. Das
 DATAR - First Digital Computer/Communications System for Anti-Submarine Warfare
 Supriyo Datta
 Ingrid Daubechies
 Oral-History:Lee Davenport
 David Ngar Ching Tse
 Oral-History:Donald Davies & Derek Barber
 Claud M. Davis
 Oral-History:Martin Davis
 Oral-History:Dawn Tilbury
 Nicolaas Frans De Rooij
 Mark E. Dean
 Degaussing
 Michael S. Dell
 Oral-History:Ernst Denert
 Robert H. Dennard
 Jack Dennis
 Oral-History:Charles Denton
 Archives:Charles A. DeSoer Interview
 John H. Dessauer
 Oral-History:Marjorie "Marge" Devaney
 Carlos H. Díaz
 Dictation Machines
 Difference Engine
 Differential Analyzers
 Oral-History:Digital Oldtimers: Oral Histories of Computer Programmers and Other Scientists
 Edsger Dijkstra
 Frederick H. Dill
 Henry H. Dillard
 Diode
 Displacement Current
 Archives:Display Devices
 Disruptive technology
 Distributed ledgers
 Distributed Networks
 Archives:Distributed Networks
 Carl Djerassi
 Dolby Laboratories
 Oral-History:Jean Dollimore
 Hermann Dommel
 Oral-History:Howard Doolittle
 Marco Dorigo
 Oral-History:Herbert Doring
 Archives:Dubilier Condenser Materials
 Eugène Ducretet
 Robert W. Dutton
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 Oral-History:James Early
 First-Hand:Early Digital Art At Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc
 First-Hand:Early PC History
 Early Popular Computers, 1950 - 1970
 Early Punched Card Equipment, 1880 - 1951
 Christopher M. Earnshaw
 Melville Eastham
 J. Presper Eckert
 Daniel C. Edelstein
 Oral-History:Murray Eden
 Edison Effect
 First-Hand:Edward E. David, Jr. (1925-2017): Personal Memories
 Eimac
 Willem Einthoven
 EKGs and EEGs
 Abbas El Gamal
 Electric Meter
 Archives:Electro Mechanical vs Solid State
 Archives:Fifty Years of Electron Devices: The IEEE Electron Devices Society and Its
Technologies
 IEEE Electron Devices Society History
 Electron (or Vacuum) Tubes
 Archives:The Computer Pioneers: Electronic Developments During World War II
 Archives:The Computer Pioneers: Electronic Developments During World War II, segment 1
 Archives:The Computer Pioneers: Electronic Developments During World War II, segment 2
 Archives:The Computer Pioneers: Electronic Developments During World War II, segment 3
 Archives:The Computer Pioneers: Electronic Developments During World War II, segment 4
 Archives:The Computer Pioneers: Electronic Developments During World War II, segment 5
 Electronic Calculators: Desktop to Pocket
 Milestones:Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, 1946
 Milestones:Electronic Quartz Wristwatch, 1969
 Peter Elias
 John Ellenby
 Archives:Elmer Gilbert Seminar
 Enabling Information Technology - Empowering Moore's Law
 Doug Engelbart
 First-Hand:Engineering the Technology of the Future: Building High-Speed Computing
Machines in the 1950s
 Elmer W. Engstrom
 ENIAC
 Archives:The Computer Pioneers: ENIAC
 The encryption war of WWII: the Enigma encryption machine
 Ephraim Suhir
 Epilog - What is the “Right Stuff” for a fighter director? - Chapter 14 of Radar and the Fighter
Directors
 First-Hand:EPROM Cassette (1977) as a Predecessor of the USB Flash Drive
 Erkki Oja
 Leo Esaki
 Masayoshi Esashi
 Oral-History:Lloyd Espenschied
 Lloyd Espenschied
 Deborah Estrin
 Archives:New Applications of the Computer: Thelma Estrin and Biomedical Engineering
 Thelma Estrin
 Oral-History:Thelma Estrin (1992)
 Oral-History:Thelma Estrin (2002)
 ETA Systems Hardware Technologies (1983-88)
 Ethernet
 Delores M. Etter
 Oral-History:Hong Eu
 Eva Tardos
 David Evans
 Oral-History:Bruce W. Everitt
 First-Hand:Evolutionary Events in Core Business Information Systems
 First-Hand:Experiences and Reflections of a Computer Pioneer

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 Federico Faggin
 Oral-History:Federico Faggin
 Fairchild Semiconductor
 Fairlight CMI
 Robert M. Fano
 Farnsworth's Image Dissector
 Alexander Feiner
 Oral-History:Elizabeth "Jake" Feinler
 Jamie Fenton
 David Ferraiolo
 Oral-History:Gabriel Ferrate
 Gustave-Auguste Ferrie
 Oral-History:Alfred Fettweis
 Alfred Fettweis
 Richard Feynman and Micromachines
 Fighter Direction Spreads from the Carriers - Chapter 9 of Radar and the Fighter Directors
 Milestones:First Practical Field Emission Electron Microscope, 1972
 Massimo V. Fischetti
 Avery Fisher
 Eugene A. Fitzgerald
 Oral-History:James L. Flanagan
 Oral-History:Steward Flaschen
 John Fleming
 Fleming Valve
 Milestones:Fleming Valve, 1904
 Harvey Fletcher
 Oral-History:Virgilio Floriani
 Oral-History:Charles Flurscheim
 David Flynn
 Oral-History:Art Fong
 Oral-History:Terry Fong
 Oral-History:G. David Forney
 Jay W. Forrester
 Alexandra Forsythe
 FORTRAN
 Oral-History:Ted Foster
 Bruce A. Francis
 David J. Frank
 Oral-History:Roy Freed
 Oral-History:Herbert Freeman
 French Telegraph Cable of 1898
 Oral-History:Robert Friedel
 Arrigo Frisiani
 Dov Frohman-Bentchkowsky
 King-Sun Fu
 Oral-History:Leonard Fuller

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 Dennis Gabor
 Oral-History:Uzia Galil
 Robert G. Gallager
 Oral-History:Robert Gallager
 Oral-History:Robert Galvin
 Oral-History:Karl Ganzhorn
 Oscar N. Garcia
 Oral-History:Wanda Gass
 Oral-History:Ron Gedney
 Charles M. Geschke
 Oral-History:David Geselowitz
 Tahir Ghani
 Georgios B. Giannakis
 James F. Gibbons
 Oral-History:James Gibbons
 First-Hand:Gigabit Wireless Networks
 First-Hand:Reminiscences on My Career in Control
 Oral-History:Dorothy Gillette
 Oral-History:Edward Ginzton
 Edward L. Ginzton
 Oral-History:Joseph Giordmaine
 Alain Glavieux
 Global Positioning System
 Oral-History:Frank W. Godsey
 Oral-History:Adolf Goetzberger
 Oral-History:Ben Gold
 Oral-History:Adele Goldberg
 Oral-History:Ken Goldberg
 Oral-History:Goldey, Hittinger and Tanenbaum
 Jacob Goldman
 Oral-History:Alfred N. Goldsmith
 Oral-History:Thomas Goldsmith
 Shafi Goldwasser
 Oral-History:Gene Golub
 Ralph E. Gomory
 Oral-History:Eugene Gordon
 Eugene I. Gordon
 James A. Gosling
 Ramesh Govindan
 Oral-History:Dimitry Grabbe
 Dimitry Grabbe
 Oral-History:Martin Graham
 Oral-History:Susan Graham
 Susan L. Graham
 Oral-History:Robert M. Gray (1991)
 Oral-History:Robert M. Gray (1998)
 Albert G. Greenberg
 Oral-History:John Gregory
 Oral-History:William Gretsch
 Oral-History:David Gries
 Alfred Grill
 Victor Grinich
 Guido Groeseneken
 Stephen Grossberg
 Peter Grünberg
 Oral-History:John Guarrera
 Oral-History:Klaus Gueldenpfennig
 Oral-History:Vince Gulden
 Hermann K. Gummel
 John B. Gunn
 Oral-History:Gustave Shapiro

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 Oral-History:Abraham H. Haddad
 Andrew V. Haeff
 Lawrence Hafstad
 Joachim Hagenauer
 Patrick E. Haggerty
 Christof Hagleitner
 Oral-History:Lois Haibt
 John H. Hall
 Oral-History:Robert N. Hall
 Robert N. Hall
 Oral-History:Clark A. Hamilton
 Richard W. Hamming
 Archives:Handbook of Electronic Design and Analysis Procedures Using Programmable
Calculators
 Archives:Handy Lists of Technical Literature - Electricity and Magnetism
 Clinton Richards Hanna
 William W. Hansen
 Archives:Calculating Power: Edwin L Harder and Analog Computing in the Electric Power
Industry
 Oral-History:Edwin Harder
 Oral-History:Ann Hardy
 George G. Harman
 Elise F. Harmon
 Harold Lawson
 Oral-History:Charles Harper
 Oral-History:Buddy Harris
 Frank Bower Harris
 Ralph Hartley
 Oral-History:Juris Hartmanis
 Harvard Mark I
 Oral-History:Paula Hawthorn
 Takashi Hayasaka
 Oral-History:Floyd Hayhurst
 Oral-History:Gwen Hays
 Oral-History:Marlene Hazle
 Oliver Heaviside
 George Hecht
 George H. Heilmeier
 Oral-History:Martin Hellman
 Robert A. Henle
 John L. Hennessy
 Warren E. Henry
 Hermann Ney
 Karl Hernqvist
 Edward W. Herold
 Noah Hershkowitz
 Oral-History:Bobby Hersom
 William R. Hewlett
 Andreas Hierlemann
 James Hillier
 Oral-History:James Hillier
 Geoffrey E. Hinton
 Shigeo Hirose
 First-Hand:History of an ASEE Fellow (Kanti Prasad)
 Paul S. Ho
 Tony Hoare
 David A. Hodges
 Richard Hodgson
 Ronald G. Hoelzeman
 Jean Hoerni
 Ted Hoff
 Oral-History:Wallace Hoff
 C. Lester Hogan
 Betty Holberton
 Herman Hollerith
 Oral-History:Nick Holonyak
 William M. Holt
 John Hopcroft
 Grace Murray Hopper
 Oral-History:Mel Hotz
 First-Hand:How to Fix a Broken Computer
 First-Hand:Howard Wise Gallery Show of Digital Art and Patterns (1965): A 50th Anniversary
Memoir
 Judy L. Hoyt
 HTTP
 C-K Hu
 Chenming Hu
 Oral-History:Thomas Huang
 David A. Huffman
 Albert W. Hull
 Archives:Human Information Processing and Reaction Time
 Oral-History:Kathy Humphry
 Cuthbert Hurd
 Harry Huskey
 Chang-Gyu Hwang
 Oral-History:Jennie S. Hwang

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 IBM
 Archives:The Computer Pioneers: IBM Discussion Group, segment 1
 Archives:The Computer Pioneers: IBM Discussion Group, segment 2
 Archives:The Computer Pioneers: The Development of the IBM 701
 Archives:The Computer Pioneers: The Development of the IBM 701, segment 1
 Archives:The Computer Pioneers: The Development of the IBM 701, segment 2
 Archives:The Computer Pioneers: The Development of the IBM 701, segment 3
 Archives:The Computer Pioneers: The Development of the IBM 701, segment 4
 Archives:The Computer Pioneers: The Development of the IBM 701, segment 5
 IBM 1800
 IBM System/360
 Milestones:IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, 1960 - 1984
 First-Hand:IBM's Evolution, From Punch-Card Machines to High-Speed Computers
 IBMs Millipede Memory Chip
 Masaru Ibuka
 Archives:ICL and the American Challenge: British Government Policies for the Computer
Industry, 1945-1985
 Masayuki Ieda
 Oral-History:IEEE Control Systems Society Oral Histories
 Archives:IEEE History Center Book Publishing
 Oral-History:IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society Oral Histories
 Kees A. S. Immink
 Induction Ring
 Inductor
 Archives:Birth Certificate of the Information Age: The Annus Mirabilis 1948
 IEEE Information Theory Society History
 Archives:Innovations with Light-Emitting Diodes
 IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society History
 Why Integrate a Circuit?
 Integrated Circuits
 Integrated Circuits and the Space Program and Missile Defense
 Archives:Integrated Circuits Fabrication
 Archives:Integrated Circuits, A Revolution in Electronics
 Archives:Intelligence in Instrumentation
 Interactive Fiction and Adventure Games
 Milestones:Birthplace of the Internet, 1969
 Archives:History and Overview of the Internet
 Internet of Things
 First-Hand:Internet's Origin
 First-Hand:Interview of Peter J. Denning
 Milestones:Introduction of the Apple II Computer: 1977-1978
 Inventing the Computer
 First-Hand:Invention of an Integrated Circuit
 Oral-History:Eleanor Ireland
 J. David Irwin
 Island Hopping - Chapter 12 of Radar and the Fighter Directors
 IT History Society
 Oral-History:Fumitada Itakura
 Kiyoo Itoh
 Oral-History:Ivan A. Getting (1995)
 Hiroshi Iwai
 Subramanian S. Iyer

J
 Oral-History:Irwin Jacobs
 Irwin M. Jacobs
 Jacquard Loom
 David Jaggar
 Anil K. Jain
 Oral-History:Jana Kosecka
 Archives:Progress in the Electronic Components Industry in Japan after World War II
 Archives:Technological Strength Needs and Feeds a New Research Infrastructure in Japan
 Milestones:The First Word Processor for the Japanese Language, 1971-1978
 Oral-History:Ray Jarvis
 Oral-History:F. Suzanne Jenniches (2010)
 Jennifer Rexford
 Oral-History:Jing Xiao
 Steve Jobs
 Oral-History:Amos Joel (1992)
 Oral-History:Amos Joel (1993)
 Oral-History:Rudy Joenk
 Reynold B. Johnson
 Wen-Ben Jone
 Anita K. Jones
 Oral-History:Karen Spärck Jones
 Rajiv V. Joshi
 Bill Joy

K
 Oral-History:Hilary Kahn
 Oral-History:Robert Kahn
 Oral-History:Thomas Kailath
 Oral-History:James Kaiser
 Oral-History:Samuel Kalow
 Takeo Kanade
 Oral-History:In-Ku Kang
 Oral-History:Jin Ku Kang
 Oral-History:Ki Dong Kang
 Oral-History:Sung Mo (Steve) Kang
 Oral-History:Charles Kao
 Oral-History:Mitchell Kapor
 Walter J. Karplus
 Oral-History:Walter Karplus
 Oral-History:Katsutaro Kataoka
 Oral-History:Lydia Kavraki
 Oral-History:Kenji Kazato and Kazuo Ito
 William L. Keefauver
 Oral-History:Arthur C. Keller
 Oral-History:Laurie Keller
 John E. Kelly, III
 Kenneth W. Martin
 Edward Keonjian
 Oral-History:Jack Kern
 Oral-History:Warren A. Kesselman
 Oussama Khatib
 Oral-History:Nobutoshi Kihara
 Nobutoshi Kihara
 Oral-History:Makoto Kikuchi
 Jack Kilby
 Oral-History:Jack Kilby
 Oral-History:Lee Kilgore
 Oral-History:Jae Kyoon Kim
 Oral-History:Yong Sun Kim
 Michael A. Kinch
 Oral-History:Dieter Kind
 Oral-History:Archie King
 Oral-History:Mary Kircher
 Kite Experiment
 Oral-History:Viggo Kjaer
 Donald L. Klein
 Oral-History:Leonard Kleinrock
 Leonard Kleinrock
 Oral-History:Ron Kline
 Klystron
 Oral-History:C. Raymond Knight
 Donald E. Knuth
 Oral-History:Koji Kobayashi
 Koji Kobayashi
 Oral-History:Richard Koch
 The Kodak Camera
 Faqir Chand Kohli
 Oral-History:Petar Kokotovic (2011)
 Rudolf Kompfner
 Granino A. Korn
 Oral-History:Kazuhiro Kosuge
 Mitsumasa Koyanagi
 George Kozmetsky
 Arthur J. Krener
 Oral-History:Hans Kretz
 Oral-History:Norman B. Krim (1984)
 Oral-History:Herbert Kroemer
 Oral-History:David Kuck
 Kelin J. Kuhn
 Raymond Kurzweil
 Dim-Lee Kwong
 Oral-History:Robert Kyhl
 Oral-History:Yoshihiro Kyotani

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 Franz Laermer
 James M. Lafferty
 Oral-History:Ken Laker
 Leslie Lamport
 Butler W. Lampson
 Rolf Landauer
 Oral-History:William Lang
 James Lansing
 Oral-History:Pierre Lapostolle
 Oral-History:Jay Lathrop
 Laurence Nagel
 Steven E. Laux
 Elizabeth Laverick
 Oral-History:Harold B. Law
 First-Hand:Learning About Computers, Programming, and Computer System Design Circa
1963 - 1981
 Oral-History:Ernst Lederer
 Albert G. Lee
 Thomas H. Lee
 Yoon-Woo Lee
 Morris E. Leeds
 Winthrop M. Leeds
 Oral-History:David Leeson
 First-Hand:Legacy of NTDS - Chapter 9 of the Story of the Naval Tactical Data System
 Oral-History:Meir Lehman
 John P. Lehoczky
 Abraham Lempel
 Lempel-Ziv Compression Algorithm
 Martin P. Lepselter
 Vladimir I. Levenshtein
 Oral-History:Levent Onural
 Oral-History:Humboldt W. Leverenz
 Oral-History:Moises Levy
 Oral-History:Frank Lewis
 Leyden jar
 Shuo-Yen Robert Li
 Zexiang Li
 Oral-History:Heather Liddell
 Light Bulb Manufacturing
 Michael Lightner
 Oral-History:Michael Lightner
 Anne Morrow Lindbergh
 John G. Linvill
 First-Hand:Liquid Crystal Display Evolution - Swiss Contributions
 Milestones:Liquid Crystal Display, 1968
 Oral-History:Barbara Liskov (1991)
 Simon Litsyn
 Oral-History:Bede Liu
 Chung Laung Liu
 Oral-History:Lennart Ljung
 Arthur Lo
 Oliver Lodge
 Oral-History:Antonio Luque Lopez
 Harold W. Lord
 Robert D. Lorenz
 History of Lossless Data Compression Algorithms
 Loudspeakers
 Oral-History:Gillian Lovegrove
 Oral-History:Donald Lowden
 William C. Lowe
 Archives:LSI In Use
 Chih-Yuan (C. Y.) Lu
 Mark Lundstrom

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 Walter MacAdam
 Oral-History:J. Ross Macdonald
 J. Ross Macdonald
 Oral-History:Carol G. Maclennan
 Some Popular Misconceptions About Magnetic Recording History and Theory
 Magnetic Tape
 Magnetic Videotape Recording
 Magnetic-Core Memory
 Tsugio Makimoto
 Harold M. Manasevit
 The University of Manchester MU5 Computer System
 Oral-History:Margaret Marrs
 Matthew T. Mason
 Oral-History:Warren P. Mason
 Oral-History:James L. Massey
 James L. Massey
 Fujio Masuoka
 Herbert F. Mataré
 Max Mathews
 Juri Matisoo
 Oral-History:Larry Matthies
 Oral-History:Joseph Maxfield
 First-Hand:Maxum Memoirs: Climbing Technical Mountains
 Hans Ferdinand Mayer
 Oral-History:John Mayo
 John S. Mayo
 Stanley Mazor
 Oral-History:Naomi McAfee
 Oral-History:John McCarthy
 Robert J. McEliece
 Oral-History:Ronald McFarlan
 David A. McLean
 First-Hand:McNally's Challenge, Conceptualizing the Naval Tactical Data System - Chapter 3
of the Story of the Naval Tactical Data System
 Oral-History:James McNaul
 Kathleen McNulty
 Oral-History:John McPherson
 Alan L. McWhorter
 Carver A. Mead
 First-Hand:Measurement in Early Software
 Sanjay Mehrotra
 James D. Meindl
 Marlyn Meltzer
 History of Memory and Storage Systems
 Memristor
 MEMS
 Oral-History:Mary Tsingou Menzel
 Oral-History:Lou Meren
 Jerry Merryman
 Oral-History:David G. Messerschmitt
 David G. Messerschmitt
 Robert M. Metcalfe
 Oral-History:Robert Metcalfe
 Paul Michaelis
 Microcontroller
 Early Microelectronics
 Archives:Microelectronics Comes of Age - Systems of the Future
 Archives:The Social Construction of the Microprocessor A Japanese and American Story
 World's First Microprocessor in the F-14A "Tom Cat" Made on Long Island
 Early Microprocessors
 Archives:Microprogramming
 Microwave Circuits
 Archives:Microwave Integrated Circuits
 Oral-History:David Middleton (2007)
 Midway - Chapter 7 of Radar and the Fighter Directors
 Oral-History:Mildred Dresselhaus
 Robert A. Millikan
 Oral-History:Judith Mills
 Oral-History:Laurence Milstein
 Archives:Minicomputers
 Marvin Minsky
 Oral-History:Jerry B. Minter
 Oral-History:Sanjit Mitra
 Archives:Modern Control Logic
 Cleve B. Moler
 John L. Moll
 Oral-History:John Moll
 Charles E. Molnar
 Julius Molnar
 Gordon E. Moore
 Oral-History:Gordon Earl Moore
 James W. Moore
 Oral-History:Louis F. Moose
 Dov Moran
 James C. Morgan
 Oral-History:Fusao Mori
 Akio Morita
 George Morrow
 George Morton
 José M. F. Moura
 First-Hand:Moving the Firing Key to NTDS - Chapter 6 of the Story of the Naval Tactical Data
System
 Oral-History:Charles W. Mueller
 Richard Stephen Muller
 Oral-History:Robert Mumma
 Oral-History:Saburo Muroga
 Richard M. Murray
 Thomas E. Murray
 Oral-History:Hans Musmann
 First-Hand:My First Handmade Radio
 First-Hand:My recollections as an educator
 First-Hand:My Recollections in Electrical Engineering
 First-Hand:My Saturn 5 Experiences

N
 Oral-History:Troy Nagle
 Oral-History:Radhika Nagpal
 Khalil Najafi
 Oral-History:Heitaro Nakajima
 Susumu Namba
 Nanoelectronics
 Nanotechnology
 Early Digital Technology and the Navy
 Leon S. Nergaard
 John von Neumann
 Andrew R. Neureuther
 John W. Mauchly
 Oral-History:Jean-Daniel Nicoud
 Oral-History:John "Jack" Nieberding
 Oral-History:Nils Nilsson
 Tak H. Ning
 Oral-History:Kazuhiko Nishi
 Yoshio Nishi
 Oral-History:Takao Nishitani
 Nixie Tubes
 First-Hand:No Damned Computer is Going to Tell Me What to DO - The Story of the Naval
Tactical Data System, NTDS
 Archives:No Exponential is Forever
 First-Hand:Novell 1980-1990
 Oral-History:Robert N. Noyce
 Robert Noyce
 Archives:Numeric and Alphanumeric Displays for Instruments

O
 Oral-History:Russel S. Ohl
 Russell Ohl
 Oral-History:Takanori Okoshi
 William G. Oldham
 Kenneth H. Olsen
 Oral-History:Harry F. Olson
 Technological Innovations and the Summer Olympic Games
 Hanzo Omi
 Jim K. Omura
 Oral-History:Eugene O'Neill
 First-Hand:Operating System Roots
 Oral-History:Alan Oppenheim
 Archives:Optimization Using Personal Computers
 Archives:Opto-Hybrid Integrated Circuit Photosensitive Devices
 First-Hand:Origin of Toshiba Computer Software Product Line COPOS and PODIA for Power-
Generation Plant and its induction into the Software Product Line Hall of Fame at Carnegie Mellon
University
 First-Hand:Origins of Hewlett Packard 35 (HP-35)
 Oral-History:Vincente Ortega
 John O'Sullivan
 John K. Ousterhout
 First-Hand:Over 50 Years in Computing

P
 Pacemakers
 David Packard
 Packet Switching
 Else Marie Pade
 Chester H. Page
 Ted Painter
 Oral-History:Jorgen Palshoj
 Christos H. Papadimitriou
 First-Hand:Parallel Processor, Theory and Circuits
 Keshab K. Parhi
 Oral-History:Lynne Parker
 Oral-History:Tom Parks
 Edward A. Parrish
 Oral-History:Kumar Patel
 Patrizio Vinciarelli
 David A. Patterson
 George W. Patterson
 Gary L. Patton
 Vern Paxson
 The First PCs
 First-Hand:PDP-8/E OMNIBUS Ride
 Chuck Peddle
 Oral-History:Aage Pedersen
 Peder Pedersen
 Donald O. Pederson
 Marcel J.M. Pelgrom
 Oral-History:Arno Penzias
 Radia Perlman
 Kurt E. Petersen
 Oral-History:Richard Petritz
 Emil M. Petriu
 Oral-History:Raymond Pickholtz
 John Pierce
 Oral-History:John Pierce
 Oral-History:John Pierce (Part 2)
 Oral-History:John Pierce (Part 3)
 Mark S. Pinsker
 Milestones:Pioneering Work on Electronic Calculators, 1964-1973
 Milestones:Pioneering Work on the Quartz Electronic Wristwatch, 1962-1967
 Pasquale Pistorio
 Oral-History:Kenneth Plante
 James D. Plummer
 James H. Pomerene
 Aleksandr Popov
 Oral-History:Robert Pound
 Balaji Prabhakar
 Walter E. Proebster
 Oral-History:Walter Proebster
 Past programming languages and their influences on today's languages and programming
paradigms
 Archives:Programming Languages for the Layman
 Emerson Pugh
 Oral-History:Emerson W. Pugh
 Michael Pupin
 Archives:Papers of Michael I. Pupin
 Insley Pyne

Q
 Quartz Watch

R
 R. Srikant
 Radar and the Fighter Directors
 Oral-History:Charles Rader
 Radio Location Goes to Sea - Chapter 2 of Radar and the Fighter Directors
 Radio Location Takes to the Air - Chapter 3 of Radar and the Fighter Directors
 John R. Ragazzini
 Oral-History:Jan Rajchman
 Jan Rajchman
 Oral-History:Jan Rajchman and Albert S. Hoagland
 Ragunathan Rajkumar
 Milestones:RAMAC, 1956
 C.V. Ramamoorthy
 Oral-History:William Rambo
 Oral-History:Norman F. Ramsey (1991)
 Archives:The Computer Pioneers: Interview footage of Brian Randell
 Archives:The Computer Pioneers: Interview footage of Michael Woodger and Brian Randell
 Oral-H