As the rhythms of scholarly life slowly begin to reassert themselves I've been asked to do a few talks based on my new book A History of Modern Computing. They share their title with "Becoming Universal: A New History of Modern Computing" which appeared in the February 2022 issue of Communications of the ACM. I tried to summarize some of the key features of the new book, looking both at the specific choices we made in structuring the first new scholarly overview history of computing to appear in decades and at the general insights of the history of computing community we were able to draw on in writing the book. Any book like this rests on the work of many scholars, and in this case the literature we had to draw on was much richer and more extensive than the one available to my coauthor Paul Ceruzzi back in the 1990s when he wrote A History of Modern Computing.
The talks currently scheduled are:
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