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International Conference on the History of Computing 
               August 14-16 1998
          Heinz-Nixdorf MuseumsForum
              Paderborn, Germany
    http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~widiger/ICHC/
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    Call for participation and final program
    
      Registration: 100 DM
      Registration and conference dinner: 150 DM
      Registration (students): 50 DM
      Registration and conference dinner (students): 100 DM


====== August 14, 1998

9:00   Welcome address on behalf of the City of Paderborn

9:05   Kurt Beiersd�rfer: Welcome address on behalf of the HNF 

9:15   Ulf Hashagen/Raul Rojas: Welcome to the conference and
organizational matters

9:30   Michael R. Williams (Calgary)

"A Preview of Things to Come: Some Remarks on the First Generation of
Computers"


10:30 Coffee break


11:00 Friedrich W. Kistermann (Holzgerlingen)

"The Tabulator DEHOMAG D-11 - An Automatic Sequence-Controlled, Stored
Program, 
Form-Controlled Printing and Summary Punching Calculator"


12:00 Lunch break


14:00 John Gustafson (Ames)

"Reconstruction of the Atanasoff-Berry Computer"

15:00 Anthony Sale (Bletchley Park)

"The Colossus of Bletchley Park - The German Cipher System"


16:00 Coffee break


16:30 Jan Van der Spiegel (Philadelphia)

"The ENIAC: History, Operation and Reconstruction in VLSI"

17:30 William Aspray (Washington)

"The IAS Computer and Impact on Computing at Princeton"


18:30 Break


19:00 I. Bernard Cohen (Cambridge, MA)

"Howard Aiken and the Harvard Mark I - The Dawn of the Computer Age"


20:00 Reception hosted by the Heinz-Nixdorf MuseumsForum

21:00 Posters
      Guided tour of the Exhibition


===== August 15, 1998

9:00  Michael S. Mahoney (Princeton)

"The Structures of Computation"

10:00 Paul E. Ceruzzi (Washington)

"Computer Architecture after von Neumann"


11:00 Coffee break


11:30 Martin Campbell-Kelly (Warwick)

"The EDSAC Simulator"


12.30 Lunch break





14:00 Chris Burton and Frank Sumner (Manchester)

"The First Stored-Program Computer"

"Rebuilding the Small-Scale Experimental Machine Mark I"


16:00 Coffee break


16:30 Ra�l Rojas  (Berlin)

"The Architecture of Konrad Zuse's Z1 and Z3"

17:30 Ambros P. Speiser  (Zurich)

"Konrad Zuse's Z4: Architecture, Programming, Modifications"


18:30 Break


19:00 Friedrich L. Bauer (Munich)

"Konrad Zuse's Plankalk�l"

20:00 Conference dinner at the MuseumsForum



===== August 16, 1998

8:30  Robert W. Seidel (Minneapolis)

"Reconstructions, Historical and Otherwise: The Challenge of High-Tech
Artifacts"

9:30  Harry D. Huskey (Bluffton, SC)
 
"Hardware Components and Computer Design"


10:30 Coffee break


11:00 Will Hopmann (Goettingen)

"The G1 and the Goettingen Family of Sequential Computers"

12:00 Seiichi Okoma (Tokyo)

"The First Japanese Computers and Their Software Simulators"

12:30 Eiiti Wada (Tokyo)
 
"The Initial Orders of the Parametron Computer PC-1"


13:00 Lunch break


14:00 Thomas Lange (Hamburg)

"Helmut H�lzer: Inventor of the Electronic Analog Computer and his
Contribution 
to the Development of the Rocket A4"

14:30 Andreas Brennecke (Paderborn)

"A Classification Scheme for Program Controlled Calculators"


15:00 Coffee break


15:30 Panel discussion with participants of the Conference
      journalists and other media representatives:
      "Who Invented the Computer?"


17:00 Farewell and guided tours of the exhibition

        

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For hotel booking contact
Margret Amedick
HNF Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum
Fuerstenallee 7
33102 Paderborn
Germany
Tel : +49/5251/306-983
FAX:  +49/5251/306-989

ICHC@hnf.de