Videos From Inaugural Computer History Conference

The First International Research Conference on the History of Computing, dubbed Computing’s Woodstock, gathered together a global elite of computer pioneers. It took place in June 1976 and now the Computer History Museum has restored 21 video recordings of its sessions and posted them on its YouTube channel. Most talks are approximately 45 minutes in duration with a brief question and answer period afterwards and as the playlist reveals they come from some of the best known names in computer science. Unfortunately this video is truncated. However, like the majority of the talks at the event the lecture’s transcript is included in the edited volume from the conference, A History of computing in the Twentieth Century, see side panel. John Backus, Edsger Dijkstra and Donald Knuth . . .