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Roots of 'Program' Revisited: Considering the fundamental nature and malleability of programming.

The article discusses the history of the "stored program":in computer science since John von Neumann's 1945 description of the EDVAC mainframe computer. The etymological origins of "program" in the radio broadcasting industry and "program clocks" which scheduled factory production are examined along...

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Publicado en:Communications of the ACM Vol. 64; no. 4; pp. 35 - 38
Autores principales: De Mol, Liesbeth, Bullynck, Maarten
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Association for Computing Machinery Apr2021
Materias:
Computer programming
History of technology
Etymology
Computer science
Von Neumann, John, 1903-1957
Acceso en línea:Ver este registro en EBSCOhost
Sumario:The article discusses the history of the "stored program":in computer science since John von Neumann's 1945 description of the EDVAC mainframe computer. The etymological origins of "program" in the radio broadcasting industry and "program clocks" which scheduled factory production are examined along with the alleged importance of establishing a narrative history of computing.