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CS1000 Software History Kim Tracy [email protected] 11/16/2015 Software History 1 Mark I, Grace Hopper Tape for Problem “L”, Smithsonian NMAH, taken by author, 7/2014.
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CS1000

Software History

Kim Tracy

[email protected]

11/16/2015Software History1Mark I, Grace Hopper Tape for Problem “L”, Smithsonian NMAH, taken by author, 7/2014.

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Getting into computing. . .

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Experience Overview

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Software and Engineering Experience Broad experience

Telecommunications software (5ESS, ISDN, etc.)

Operating Systems development (R&D Unix)

DBMS development (C RDBMS)

Database application experience (Monsanto, Bell Labs)

Information architecture

Consulting

Security Software

System Tester

Development methodologies, SW Quality

AI Software

Productization (Visualization, mapping, etc.)

Consulting (Enterprise Architecture/Information Architecture)

Network design and architecture

Systems engineering

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IT Experience

Across all IT areas (as CIO of NEIU)

ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) deployment

IT Management

ITIL – IT organization and processes

Security

IT Strategy, Applications, Operations and Infrastructure

IT Roadmapping

IT Consulting (reviewing other orgs, employment exam

writing, security audit)

Mobility application (3g/4g)

Strategic application of IT – impact to business/organization

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Teaching Experience

Taught in a wide variety of institutions and modalities

NEIU, North Central College, IIT, DePaul, Lewis, and

online

Wide variety of courses taught (DBMS, A&D, Networking,

OS, AI, Discrete Math, ToC, Prog. Langs & Compilers,

eBusiness, Security, Open Source, MS Projects, etc.)

Now at MTU, teaching SW Engineering and Systems

courses

Teaching Software History this summer (CS3090)

Sidenote: the IBM 3090 was a popular mainframe. . .

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Software History-Why

Book on software history

Many current students have little knowledge of SW history

Get dribs and drabs in some courses and textbooks

Missing the big picture on software’s evolution

There’s a need to know

The focus is on what technology students need to know

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See: http://books.acm.org/subjects/forthcoming-titles for abstract.

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Outline – Software History

Issues to address

How did we get to the point where a history is needed?

Historiographical approach

Examples

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“Programming” the ENIAC

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Corbis

Photo as

in Forbes

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Issues Addressed

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No existing textbook on software technical history

Students are left with a sea of bits and pieces

My foci:

Understanding software base and its evolution

Applying learnings to future systems

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What has happened to make a software

history necessary?

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To manage complexity, we’ve increased the levels of

abstraction

Students often learn and use only the highest levels

We’re rarely teaching a lot of the lower levels (file

systems, DBMS internals, OS internals, Assembler, etc.)

We’ve rapidly specialized

We’ve got over 60 years of history

From CACM, “The Tears of Donald Knuth,” Jan. 2015, p.40

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Historiographical method

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Software is a technology

Using a “domain” and “sub-domain” approach*

Focus on core domains: operating systems, programming environments, databases, networking, etc.

Other concepts: significant events, communities of practice, standard engineering

Importance of primary sources

Software is an unusual technology

Very loosely based on physical phenomena

More like mathematics in building on previous abstractions/results

Why haven’t historians of technology done this?

* As per a combined approach of Basalla, Arthur and Constant.

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Software Taxonomy

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Influences to Software Change

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Book Structure

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Use a broad technical evolution with significant events

and then include deep dives into:

Chapters by software technology domain

Important examples of source code

Failures and learnings

Other case studies

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Programmers’ Toolsets

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Influences on Toolset Evolution

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IBM 704

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NASA, public

domain

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Programmers’ Tools Over time

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Operating Systems

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High-level Evolution of Operating Systems

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Evolution of OS Features to Smaller Devices*

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* From Silberschatz , Galvin, and Gagne, Operating Systems, Concepts, 9th Edition, Wiley, 2012, Chapter 20, Figure 1.

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Summary

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Software history’s time has come

Student’s have a need to know

No cohesive, digestible view

Losing software pioneers

Gives students a picture of the overall evolution of SW

ability to reason about trends and future possibilities

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Questions?

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References Arthur, W. Brian, The Nature of Technology: What It Is and How It Evolves, Free Press, 2009.

Basalla, George, The Evolution of Technology, Cambridge University Press, 1988.

Constant II, Edward, The Origins of the Turbojet Revolution,The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980.

Mahoney, Michael, The Histories of Computing, Harvard University Press, 2011.

Charles Babbage Institute (CBI), www.cbi.org.

Computer History Museum, www.computerhistory.org

Computer History Museum scanned manuals, http://www.bitsavers.org/

Various Oral histories

CBI: http://www.cbi.umn.edu/oh/

CHM: http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/oralhistories/

Smithsonian Computer Oral History Collection, 1969-1973, 1977

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1234040

http://invention.smithsonian.org/downloads/fa_cohc_abstracts_a-d.pdf

http://invention.smithsonian.org/downloads/fa_cohc_abstracts_e-g.pdf

http://invention.smithsonian.org/downloads/fa_cohc_abstracts_h.pdf

http://invention.smithsonian.org/downloads/fa_cohc_abstracts_i-m.pdf

http://invention.smithsonian.org/downloads/fa_cohc_abstracts_n-r.pdf

http://invention.smithsonian.org/downloads/fa_cohc_abstracts_s-z.pdf

SIAM: The History of Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing

http://history.siam.org/oralhistories.htm

History of Programming Languages I, II, and III conference proceedings, ACM.

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