Haigh, Thomas, Prof. Ph.D.

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Thomas Haigh, PhD is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Comenius Visiting Professor of the History of Computing at Siegen University. He has published on many aspects of the history of computing including the evolution of data base management systems, word processing, the software package, corporate computer departments, Internet software, computing in science fiction, the “software crisis” of the 1960s, IBM in Europe, and the Colossus code breaking machines. Besides being the author of ENIAC in Action (MIT, 2016) Haigh is the editor of Histories of Computing (Harvard, 2011), a collection of the work of Michael Mahoney, and the lead editor of a 2015 special issue of Information and Culture on the theme “Histories of the Internet.” From 2005 to 2015 he was chair of SIGCIS, the group for historians of information technology. Currently he is collaborating with Paul Ceruzzi on a new edition of the book A History of Modern Computing. Learn more at www.tomandmaria.com/tom.

Publikationen

Books

  1. Michael S. Mahoney. Histories of Computing, edited and with an introduction by Thomas Haigh, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011).
  2. Haigh, Thomas, Mark Priestley & Crispin Rope. ENIAC in Action: Making and Remaking the Modern Computer (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2016).
    • Japanese translation of ENIAC in Action published July 2016 by Kyoritsu Shuppan.
    • Paperback edition published by MIT Press, January 2018.
  3. Paul Ceruzzi & Thomas Haigh. A New History of Modern Computing (3rd edition of A History of Modern Computing) under contract to MIT Press. Manuscript due end 2018.
  4. Exploring the Early Digital(editor), under contract to Springer for its History of Computing series. Manuscript due August 2018.

Journal Issue Edited 

  1. Haigh, Thomas and Andrew L. Russell & William H. Dutton Histories of the Internet, a special issue of Information & Culture 50:2 (May/June 2015).

Major Articles and Book Chapters

  1. Haigh, Thomas. “Inventing Information Systems: The Systems Men and the Computer” Business History Review 75:1 (Spring 2001): 15-61.
  2. Haigh, Thomas. "The Chromium Plated Tabulator: Institutionalizing an Electronic Revolution, 1954-1958" IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 23:4 (October-December 2001): 75-104.
  3. Haigh, Thomas. “Software in the 1960s as Concept, Service, and Product” IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 24:1 (January-March 2002): 5-13.
  4. Haigh, Thomas. "ADAPSO and the Service Bureau Industry, 1961-1968," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 26:1 (January-March 2004): 78-85.
  5. Haigh, Thomas. “The History of Computing: An Introduction for the Computer Scientist” in Using History to Teach Computer Science and Related Disciplines Atsushi Akera & William Aspray (Washington, D.C.: Computing Research Association, 2004):5-26.
  6. Haigh, Thomas. “Key Resources in the History of Computing” in Using History to Teach Computer Science and Related Disciplines Atsushi Akera & William Aspray (Washington, D.C.: Computing Research Association, 2004):279-294.
  7. Haigh, Thomas. “A Veritable Bucket of Facts: Origins of the Database Management System” in The History and Heritage of Scientific and Technological Information Systems: Proceedings of the 2002 Conference W. Boyd Rayward & Mary Ellen Bowden (New Jersey: Information Today, 2004):73-78.
    • Translated as "Ein wahrer Eimer voller Fakten" «Nach Feierabend - Zürcher Jahrbuch für Wissensgeschichte» (Zurich Yearbook in the History of Knowledge) 3, 2007.
  8. Haigh, Thomas. "ADAPSO, Timesharing Firms and Software Companies, 1968-1975," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 27:1 (January-March 2005): 67-73.
  9. Haigh, Thomas. "ADAPSO, Regulated Competition, and Professional Services: 1976-1986" IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 27:2 (April-June 2005): 89-93.
  10. Haigh, Thomas. "'A Veritable Bucket of Facts:' Origins of the Data Base Management System," ACM SIGMOD Record 35:2 (June 2006).
  11. Haigh, Thomas. "Remembering the Office of the Future: Word Processing and Office Automation before the Personal Computer," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 28:4 (October-December 2006):6-31.
  12. Haigh, Thomas. Elizabeth Kaplan & Carrie Seib, "Sources for ACM History: What, Where, Why" (with), Communications of the ACM 50:5 (May 2007):36-41.
  13. Haigh, Thomas. "Protocols for Profit: Web and E-mail Technologies as Product and Infrastructure" in The Internet and American Business, edited by William Aspray and Paul Ceruzzi, MIT Press, 2008: 105-158.
  14. Haigh, Thomas. "The Web's Missing Links: Search Engines and Portals" in The Internet and American Business, edited by William Aspray and Paul Ceruzzi, MIT Press, 2008:159-200.
  15. Haigh, Thomas. "How Data Got its Base: Generalized Information Storage Software in the 1950s and 60s," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 31:4 (Oct-Dec 2009): 6-25.
  16. Bergin, Tim & Thomas Haigh, "The Commercialization of Data Base Management Software 1969-85," in IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 31:4 (Oct-Dec 2009):26-41.
  17. Haigh, Thomas. "Computing the American Way," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 32:2 (April-June 2010):8-20.
  18. Haigh, Thomas. "Masculinity and the Machine Man: Gender in the History of Data Processing," in Gender Codes: Why Women are Leaving Computing ed. Thomas J. Misa, IEEE Computer Society Press, 2010:51-72.
  19. Haigh, Thomas. "Technology's Other Storytellers: Science Fiction as History of Technology" Science Fiction and Computing: Essays on Interlinked Domains, ed. David Ferro & Eric Swedlin, McFarland & Company, 2011:13-37.
  20. Haigh, Thomas. "The History of Information Technology," Annual Review of Information Science and Technology 45 (2011): 431-487.
  21. Haigh, Thomas. "Unexpected Connections, Powerful Precedents, and Big Questions: The Work of Michael S. Mahoney on the History of Computing," in Histories of Computing by Michael S. Mahoney, edited and with an introduction by Thomas Haigh, Harvard University Press, 2011: 1-18.
  22. Bátiz-Lazo, Bernardo & Thomas Haigh, "Engineering Change in Mexico: The Appropriation of Computer Technology at Grupo ICA (1965-1971)," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 34:2 (April-June 2012):20-33.
  23. Bátiz-Lazo, Bernardo, Thomas Haigh & David Stearns. "How the Future Shaped the Past: The Case of the Cashless Society," Enterprise & Society 15:1 (March 2014):103-131.
    • Excerpts revised as “Origins of the Modern Concept of a Cashless Society, 1950s–1970s” in The Book of Payments: Historical and Contemporary Views on the Cashless Society, ed. Bernardo Batiz Lazo & Leonidas Efthymiou, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. See “Other Minor Publications”
  24. Haigh, Thomas, Mark Priestley & Crispin Rope. "Reconsidering the Stored Program Concept" (with), IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 36:1 (January-March 2014):4-17.
    • Earlier, condensed version published as Haigh, Thomas. "Stored Program' Considered Harmful: History and Historiography," in The Nature of Computation: Logic, Algorithms, Applications, editors Paola Bonizzoni, Vasco Brattka & Benedikt Löwe, Springer, 2013:241-251. See “Other Minor Publications.”
  25. Haigh, Thomas, Mark Priestley & Crispin Rope. "Engineering 'The Miracle of the ENIAC': Implementing the Modern Code Paradigm" (with Mark Priestley and Crispin Rope), IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 36:2 (April-June 2014):41-59.
  26. Haigh, Thomas, Mark Priestley & Crispin Rope. "Los Alamos Bets on ENIAC: Nuclear Monte Carlo Simulations, 1947-48" (with Mark Priestley and Crispin Rope), IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 36:3 (Jul-Sep 2014):42-63.
  27. Haigh, Thomas. “Von-Neumann-Architektur, Speicherprogrammierung und modernes Code-Paradigma” Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft, 12 (2015):127-139.
  28. Haigh, Thomas, Andrew L. Russell & William H. Dutton, “Histories of the Internet,” introduction to a special issue of Information & Culture 50:2 (May-Jun 2015): 143-159.
  29. Paju, Petri & Thomas Haigh, “IBM Rebuilds Europe: The Curious Case of the Transnational Typewriter,” Enterprise & Society 17:2 (June 2016): 265-300.
    • Winner, Philip Scranton Best Article Prize, Business History Conference, 2017 (for best 2016 article in Enterprise & Society)
    • Winner, Mira Wilkins Prize, Business History Conference, 2017 (for best treatment of international and comparative history in a 2016 article in Enterprise & Society)
  30. Haigh, Maria, Thomas Haigh, and Nadine Kozak. “Stopping Fake News: The Work Practices of Peer-to-Peer Counter Propaganda.” Forthcoming in Journalism Studies (published online 2017).
  31. Paju, Petri and Thomas Haigh, “IBM’s Tiny Peripheral: Finland and the Tensions of Transnationality.” Business History Review 92:1 (Spring 2018): 3-28.
  32. Priestley, Mark and Thomas Haigh. “The Media of Programming,” forthcoming in Thomas Haigh, ed., Exploring the Early Digital (Springer, 2018).
  33. Haigh, Thomas and Mark Priestley. “Colossus and the Origins of Programmability,” under review by IEEE Annals of the History of Computing.
  34. Haigh, Thomas and Mark Priestley. “Colossus in Context” in discussion with Technology & Culture regarding possible submission.
  35. Haigh, Thomas, Maria Haigh & Sebastian Giessmann. “Making a Place for History in the iSchool: The Case for Social Studies of Information.” Under review by Information & Culture.

Communications of the ACM “Historical Reflections” 

  1. Haigh, Thomas. "The IBM PC: From Beige Box to Industry Standard," Communications of the ACM 55:1 (Jan 2012):35-37.
  2. Haigh, Thomas. "Seven Lessons from Bad History: Journalists, Historians, and the Invention of Email," Communications of the ACM 55:9 (Sept 2012):26-29.
  3. Haigh, Thomas. "Five Lessons from Really Good History," Communications of the ACM 50:1 (Jan 2013):37-40.
  4. Haigh, Thomas. "Software and Souls; Programs and Packages," Communications of the ACM 56:9 (Sept 2013):31-34.
  5. Haigh, Thomas. "Actually, Turing Did Not Invent the Computer," Communications of the ACM 57:1 (Jan 2014):36-41.
  6. Haigh, Thomas. "We Have Never Been Digital," Communications of the ACM 57:9 (Sept 2014):24-28.
  7. Haigh, Thomas. "The Tears of Donald Knuth: Has the History of Computing Taken a Tragic Turn?" Communications of the ACM 58:1 (Jan 2015):40-44. (Downloaded more than 115,000 times).
  8. Haigh, Thomas & Mark Priestley, “Innovators Assemble: Ada Lovelace, Walter Isaacson, and the Superheroines of Computing,” Communications of the ACM 58:9 (Sept 2015):20-27.
  9. Haigh, Thomas & Mark Priestley, “Where Code Comes From: Architectures of Automatic Control from Babbage to Algol,” Communications of the ACM 59:1 (Jan 2016): 39-44.
  10. Haigh, Thomas. “How Charles Bachman Invented the DBMS [Data Base Management System], a Foundation of Our Digital World,” Communications of the ACM 59:7 (July 2016): 25-30.
  11. Haigh, Thomas. “Colossal Genius: Tutte, Flowers, and a Bad Imitation of Turing.” Communications of the ACM 60:1 (January 2017): 29-35.
  12. Haigh, Thomas. "Defining American Greatness: IBM from Watson to Trump." Communications of the ACM 61:1 (January 2018): 32-37.

Encyclopedia Articles 

  1. Haigh, Thomas. "Internet Commerce" in The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Business, Labor, and Economic History Melvyn Dubofsky & Paul S. Boyer, Oxford University Press, 2013:405-408.
  2. Haigh, Thomas. "Software" in Oxford Encyclopedia of the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology in America Hugh Slotten, Oxford University Press, 2014:480-486.
  3. Haigh, Thomas. "Internet and World Wide Web" in Oxford Encyclopedia of the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology in America Hugh Slotten, Oxford University Press, 2014:584-591.

Biographical Profiles

  1. Haigh, Thomas. “Biography: Per Brinch Hansen,” IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 25:1 (January-March 2003):80-83 (with JAN Lee).
  2. Haigh, Thomas. “Obituary: Rob Kling,” IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 25:3 (Jul-Sep 2003): 92-94.
  3. Haigh, Thomas. “Obituary: I. Bernard Cohen,” IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 25:4 (Oct-Dec 2003): 89-92.
  4. Haigh, Thomas. "Biography: Frank Lautenberg," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 26:1 (January-March 2004): 90-93.
  5. Haigh, Thomas. "Biography: Bernard (Bernie) Goldstein," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 26:1 (January-March 2004): 85-90.
  6. Haigh, Thomas. "Biography: Richard L. (Rick) Crandall," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 26:4 (October-December 2004): 79-85.
  7. Haigh, Thomas. "Biography: Lawrence A. (Larry) Welke," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 26:4 (October-December 2004): 85-91.
  8. Haigh, Thomas. "Biography: Lawrence Schoenberg" IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 27:2 (April-June 2005), 92-94.
  9. Haigh, Thomas. "Cleve Moler: Mathematical Software Specialist and Creator of Matlab" IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 30:1 (January-March 2008), 87-91.
  10. Haigh, Thomas. "Jack Dongarra: Supercomputing Expert and Mathematical Software Specialist" IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 30:2 (April-June 2008), 74-81.
  11. Haigh, Thomas. "John R. Rice: Mathematical Software Pioneer," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 32:4 (October-December 2010), 72-80.
  12. Haigh, Thomas. "Charles W. Bachman: Data Base Software Pioneer," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 33:4 (October-December 2011):70-80.
  13. Haigh, Thomas. "Niklaus E. Wirth - ACM Turing Award Winner" for ACM Turing Award Website (Summer 2012).
  14. Haigh, Thomas. "Charles William Bachman - ACM Turing Award Winner" for ACM Turing Award Website (Summer 2012).
  15. Haigh, Thomas. "William ("Velvel") Morton Kahan - ACM Turing Award Winner" for ACM Turing Award Website.
  16. Haigh, Thomas. “Michael Stonebraker – ACM Turing Award Winner” for ACM Turing Award Website (Fall 2015).
  17. Haigh, Thomas. “Tim Berners-Lee – ACM Turing Award Winner” for ACM Turing Award Website (Fall 2017).
  18. Haigh, Thomas. “Thomas Harold ‘Tommy’ Flowers: Creator of Colossus,” IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 40:1 (Jan-Mar 2018): 72-82

Book Reviews

  1. Haigh, Thomas. Review of "Anytime, Anywhere: Entrepreneurship and the Creation of a Wireless World," by Louis Galambos and Eric John Abrahamson, Business History Review 77:1 (Spring 2003).
  2. Haigh, Thomas. Review of "Between Human and Machine: Feedback, Control, and Computing before Cybernetics," by David A Mindell, Business History Review 77:3 (Autumn 2003):358-360.
  3. Haigh, Thomas. Review of “From 0 to 1: An Authoritative History of Modern Computing”, edited by Atsushi Akera and Frederik Nebeker (Oxford University Press, 2002), Technology and Culture 44:4 (October 2003):841-842.
  4. Haigh, Thomas. Review of "The Second Information Revolution" by Gerald W. Brock, Business History Review 78:2 (Summer 2004):316-318.
  5. Haigh, Thomas. Review of "Computers and Commerce: A Study of Technology and Management at Eckert-Mauchly Computer Company, Engineering Research Associates, and Remington Rand, 1946-1957" by Arthur Norberg, Business History Review 80:3 (Autumn, 2006), 574-577.
  6. Haigh, Thomas. Review of "Structuring the Information Age: Life Insurance and Technology in the Twentieth Century" by JoAnne Yates, EH-Net, 2007.
  7. Haigh, Thomas. Review of "From Counterculture to Cyberculture" by Fred Turner, Isis 101:1 (March 2010) 267-268.
  8. Haigh, Thomas. Review of "Emanuel Goldberg and His Knowledge Machine: Information, Invention, and Political Forces" by Michael Buckland, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 63:2 (February 2012):427-8.
  9. Haigh, Thomas. "An Unconventional History of the Early IAS Computer" - Review of "Turing’s Cathedral" by George Dyson, SIAM News 46:2, March 12, 2013.
  10. Haigh, Thomas. Review of "Biomedical Computing" by Joseph November, American Historical Review 118:3 (October 2013):1226-1227.
  11. Haigh, Thomas. Review of “Turing: Pioneer of the Information Age” by Jack Copeland, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 67:7 (July 2016).

Published Oral History Transcripts

I’m including in this category my thirty-eight professionally transcribed oral histories placed in archival repositories with on-line full text access. I have conducted these interviews on behalf of oral history programs sponsored by the Software History Center, Association for Computing Machinery, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, and Computer History Museum. SIAM, the sponsoring organization for the great bulk of them, published them online and has made a donation of the transcripts and original recordings to the Computer History Museum to ensure that they are archived and made available.

Interviews review the subject’s entire career. The median interview is around five hours and 40,000 words. The longest, with ACM Turing Award Winner William Kahan, was more than twenty hours and 158,000 words.

  1. Joseph A. Piscopo, OH 342. Oral history interview by Thomas Haigh, 3 May 2002, Washington, D.C. Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (online at CBI).
  2. Lawrence Welke, OH 335. Oral history interview by Thomas Haigh, 3 May 2002, Washington, DC. Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (online at CBI).
  3. Cleve Moler. Oral history interview by Thomas Haigh, 8-9 March 2004, Santa Barbara, CA. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, PA (online at SIAM).
  4. Joseph Traub. Oral history interview by Thomas Haigh, 19-20 March 2004, New York, NY. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, PA (online at SIAM).
  5. John R. Rice. Oral history interview by Thomas Haigh, 24-25 March 2004, West Lafayette, IN. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, PA (online at SIAM).
  6. Jack Dongarra. Oral history interview by Thomas Haigh, 26-28 April 2004, Knoxville & Oak Ridge, TN. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, PA (online at SIAM).
  7. Jerome Dreyer. Oral history interview by Thomas Haigh, 1 May 2004, Pittsburgh, PA. Computer History Museum, Mountain View (online at CHM).
  8. Dan Fylstra. Oral history interview by Thomas Haigh, 7 May 2004, Needham, MA. Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (forthcoming pending review by interviewee).
  9. Oscar Schacter, OH 389. Oral history interview by Thomas Haigh, 7 May 2004, Needham, MA. Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (online).
  10. Thomas J. Aird. Oral history interview by Thomas Haigh, 3-4 June 2004, Reno, NV. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, PA (online at SIAM).
  11. Brian Ford. Oral history interview by Thomas Haigh, 29-30 June 2004, Oxford, UK. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, PA (online at SIAM).
  12. Jim Pool. Oral history interview by Thomas Haigh, 14-15 July 2004, Pasadena, CA. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, PA. (online at SIAM).
  13. Augustin Dubrulle. Oral history interview by Thomas Haigh, 30-31 July 2004, Arroyo Grande, CA. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, PA (online at SIAM).
  14. J. Cody. Oral history interview by Thomas Haigh, 3-4 August 2004, Glen Ellyn, IL. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, PA (online at SIAM).
  15. Charles W. Johnson. Oral history interview by Thomas Haigh, 25 August 2004, Racine, WI. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, PA (online at SIAM).
  16. Charles Bachman, ACM Oral History Interview #2. Oral history interview by Thomas Haigh, 25-26 September 2004, Tucson, AZ. Association for Computing Press, New York (online at ACM).
  17. Charles L. Lawson. Oral history interview by Thomas Haigh, 6-7 November 2004, San Clemente, CA. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, PA (online at SIAM).
  18. Peter Harris, Oral history interview by Thomas Haigh, 19 November 2004, Mountain View, CA. Computer History Museum, Mountain View. (online at CHM)
  19. Alan J. Hindmarsh. Oral history interview by Thomas Haigh, 5-6 January 2005, Livermore, CA. Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (online at SIAM).
  20. Gaston Gonnet OH TBA. Oral history interview by Thomas Haigh, 16-18 March 2005, Zurich, Swizterland. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, PA (online at SIAM).
  21. Bill Buzbee. Oral history interview by Thomas Haigh, 8-9 April 2005, Westminster, CO. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, PA (online at SIAM).
  22. Phyllis Fox. Oral history interview by Thomas Haigh, 7-8 June 2005, Short Hills, NJ. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, PA (online at SIAM).
  23. Al Eisman. Oral history interview by Thomas Haigh, 6-7 July 2005, Bellevue, WA. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, PA (online at SIAM).
  24. Paul Swarztrauber. Oral history interview by Thomas Haigh, 16-17 July 2005, Boulder, CO. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, PA (online at SIAM).
  25. Edward Block. Oral history interview by Thomas Haigh, 26-27 July 2005, Philadelphia, PA. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, PA.
  26. William Kahan. Oral history interview by Thomas Haigh, 5-8 August 2005, Berkeley, CA. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, PA. (online at SIAM).
  27. Iain S. Duff. Oral history interview by Thomas Haigh, August 31-September 1 2005, Oxford, UK. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, PA (online at SIAM).
  28. William Gear. Oral history interview by Thomas Haigh, September 17 & 18 2005, Princeton, NJ. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, PA (online at SIAM).
  29. Gene Golub. Oral history interview by Thomas Haigh, October 21 & 22 2005, Stanford, CA. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, PA (online at SIAM).
  30. Walter M. Carlson, ACM Oral History Interview #3. Oral history interview by Thomas Haigh, November 26 & 27 2005, Los Gatos, CA. Association for Computing Machinery Press, New York (online at ACM).
  31. Robert L. Patrick. Oral history interview by Thomas Haigh, 16 February 2006, Mountain View, CA. Computer History Museum, Mountain View. (online at CHM)
  32. W. "Pete" Stewart. Oral history interview by Thomas Haigh, May 5 & 6 2006, Washington, D.C. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, PA. (online at SIAM)
  33. J. Date, Oral history interview by Thomas Haigh, 13 June 2007, Mountain View, CA. Computer History Museum, Mountain View. (online at CHM).
  34. John Phillips. Oral history interview by Thomas Haigh, 4 June 2008, Mountain View, CA. Computer History Museum, Mountain View. (forthcoming pending review by interviewee)
  35. Frank Belvin. Oral history interview by Thomas Haigh, 4 June 2009, Mountain View, CA. Computer History Museum, Mountain View (Online at CHM).
  36. David Hsaio. Oral history interview by Thomas Haigh, 12-13 June 2009, Mountain View, CA. Association for Computing Machinery, New York (online at ACM).
  37. James Mann. Oral history interview by Thomas Haigh, 20 May 2010, New York, NY. Computer History Museum, Mountain View (online at CHM).
  38. William Kahan, Video history interview by Thomas Haigh, 12 March 2016, Berkeley, CA. Association for Computing Machinery, New York (online via ACM).

Technical Reports

  1. Haigh, Thomas. “Research Interactions Between University and Industry in Computer Science in the United States and United Kingdom”, 1995 technical report UMCS-95-8-1, University of Manchester (UK) Department of Computer Science.
  2. Haigh, Thomas. “Did V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai Invent Email?” published online at SIGCIS.org, 2012 with updates 2013, 2014. sigcis.org/ayyadurai
  3. Priestley, Mark & Thomas Haigh, “Monte Carlo Computation Analysis,” technical report at EniacInAction.com, updated January 2016
  4. Priestley, Mark & Thomas Haigh, “Monte Carlo Second Run Code Reconstruction and Analysis,” technical report at EniacInAction.com, updated January 2016.

Other Minor Publications

  1. Haigh, Thomas. “Reports on workshop discussion” for “Software as Economic Activity” and “Software as Science”, in Mapping the History of Computing: Software Issues, U. Hashagen, R. Keil-Slawik, A. Norberg, eds. (New York: Springer-Verlag), 2002: 61-62 & 223-224.
  2. Haigh, Thomas. Review Essay, “Multicians.Org and the History of Operating Systems”, Iterations: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Software History 1 (2002).
  3. Haigh, Thomas. Report on Amsterdam Computer History Colloquium, SIAM News, January 2006.
  4. Haigh, Thomas. "Fifty Years of the History of Technology" (Report on SHOT 2007 meeting), IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 30:2 (April-June 2008).
  5. Haigh, Thomas. "Software for Europe: Workshops" (Report on SOFT-EU Grenoble 2008 meeting), IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 30:3 (July-September 2008):75-76.
  6. Haigh, Thomas. "SHOT@50: Lisbon Meeting" (Report on SHOT 2008 meeting), IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 31:1 (January-March 2009):63-64.
  7. Haigh, Thomas. "Mahoney Fund," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 31:3 (Jul-Sept 2009):80.
  8. Haigh, Thomas. "Society for the History of Technology 2010 Meeting," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 33:1 (Jan-Mar 2011):81-2.
  9. Batiz Lazo, Bernardo, Thomas Haigh & Dave Stearns. "Will We Ever Have a Cash Free Society?" Mercury 1:1 (Summer 2012):29-31.
  10. Haigh, Thomas. "Fifty Years of Databases," ACM SIGMOD Blog, December 11, 2012.
  11. Thomas Haigh, "Taking Care of Business History: Challenges and Opportunities for the 21st Century," Keynote for Association of Business Historians 21st Annual Conference, Preston, UK, June 2013.
  12. Haigh, Thomas. "Stored Program' Considered Harmful: History and Historiography," in The Nature of Computation: Logic, Algorithms, Applications, editors Paola Bonizzoni, Vasco Brattka & Benedikt Löwe, Springer, 2013:241-251. See “Other Minor Publications.”
  13. Haigh, Thomas, Nadine Kozak & Maria Haigh. “Making Time for the Past: Historical Scholarship in the iSchool,” Proceedings of the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association for Information Science (CAIS), Ottawa, June 2015.
  14. Haigh, Maria, Nadine Kozak & Thomas Haigh. “The Social Study of Information Work: StopFake.org and Ukraine’s Online War with Russia,” Proceedings of the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association for Information Science (CAIS), Ottawa, June 2015.
  15. Bátiz-Lazo, Bernardo, Thomas Haigh & David Stearns. “Origins of the Modern Concept of a Cashless Society, 1950s–1970s” in The Book of Payments: Historical and Contemporary Views on the Cashless Society, ed. Bernardo Batiz Lazo & Leonidas Efthymiou, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
  16. Haigh, Thomas. “The History of UNIX in the History of Software,” Cahiers D’Histoire Du CNAM 7-8 (2017):77-90.
  17. Haigh, Thomas. “Finding a Story for the History of Computing.” Forthcoming in Media of Cooperation Working Paper series, from Siegen University.

Conference Presentations (Competitively Reviewed)

  1. "The Taylored Office: Technology, Power and Expertise in Systematic Office Management" at Mid-Atlantic Conference in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, August 1998.
  2. Dissertation in Progress Presentation at Business History Conference, Palo Alto, March 2000.
  3. "Failure as a Cultural Resource: Early Computer Systems for Corporate Management" at the Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference on Failure, Harvard University, May 2000.
  4. "Inventing Managerial Information: The Systems Men and the Computer, 1957-1967" at Society for the History of Technology(SHOT) annual meeting, Munich, August 2000.
  5. “From Machine Man to Information Manager: Class Formation and Group Mobility in Corporate Computing, 1953-1964”, at 22nd North American Labor History Conference, Detroit, October 2000.
  6. “Corporate War-Rooms: The Computer and ‘Total Systems’ in Business, 1959-1968” at Cold War Science, Technology and Medicine: Global Perspectives, University of Pennsylvania, November 2000.
  7. “A Veritable Bucket of Facts: Origins of the Database Management System” at Preliminary Workshop on the History and Heritage of Scientific and Technical Information Systems (ASIST/Chemical Heritage Foundation), Philadelphia, June 2001.
  8. “Information is the Fix, Now What Was the Problem?” at The Technological Fix, Hagley Museum and Library conference, Delaware, October 2002.
  9. “Lost In Translation: Total Systems from War Room to Board Room, 1954-1968” at Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Technology, Toronto, October 2002.
  10. “A Veritable Bucket of Facts: Origins of the Database Management System” at Second Conference on the History and Heritage of Scientific and Technical Information Systems (ASIS&T/Chemical Heritage Foundation), Philadelphia, November 2002.
  11. “Technology versus Technocracy in the Progressive Office in the United States, 1917-1931" at Business History Conference, Le Creusot (France), June 2004.
  12. “Making the Computer Personal: Reconstructing Domesticity for the Information Age” at Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Technology, Amsterdam, October 2004.
  13. "An Industry of Enthusiasts: Users Make the Computer Personal, 1975-1981." Business History Conference, Minneapolis, May 2005.
  14. "SHARE and the Origins of Open Source Software, 1954-1972," at the Annual Symposium of the International Committee for the History of Technology, Leicester, UK, August 2006.
  15. "Crippled by its Own Strengths: The Software Infrastructure of the Commercializing Internet," at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Technology, Las Vegas, October 2006.
  16. "The Corporate Origins of Open Source," at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science, Vancouver, November 2006.
  17. "Learning on a Jet Plane: Distributed Problem Solving and Knowledge Sharing in a Virtual Community of Frequent Fliers," at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, Austin, November 2006.
  18. “Making the Computer Personal: Reconstructing Domesticity for the Information Age” at Gumanitarni Problemy Stanovlennia Suchasnoho Fakhivczia(8th International Conference for the Professionalization and Modernization of the Humanities and Social Sciences), March 22-23, 2007, Kyiv, Ukraine.
  19. "Missing Links: The Search Engine & Portal Industry," at Business History Conference, Cleveland, May/June 2007.
  20. "Missing Links: The Development of the Search Engine & Portal Industry," British Society for the History of Science, Manchester, July 2007.
  21. "The Web's Missing Links: The Search Engine & Portal Industry," Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Philadelphia, August 2007.
  22. "Knowing Numbers: How Numerical Software Libraries Changed Scientific Practice, 1954-1975," Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science, Montreal, October 2007.
  23. "Open Source Software at 50: Its Corporate and Mathematical Origins," Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Technology, Washington DC, October 2007.
  24. "Masculinities in the Histories of Computing(s),"History|Gender|Computing, Charles Babbage Institute, Minneapolis, June 2008.
  25. "Computing the American Way," at “Appropriating America, Making Europe,” Inventing Europe Eurocores European Science Foundation Workshop, Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences and Arts, Amsterdam, January 2009.
  26. "Opening the Beige Box: Materiality and the Evolution of the IBM PC, 1981-1995," Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Technology, Pittsburgh, October 2009.
  27. "Challengers and Opportunities in Information History," Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Vancouver, November 2009.
  28. (with Bernardo Batiz Lazo) “Engineering Change in Mexico: The Adoption of Computer Technology at ICA (1965-1971),” Second Latin American Economic History Congress (CLADHE-II), Mexico City, February 2010.
  29. (with Maria Haigh) "Open Source Software Practices: Forgotten History of the 1950s and 1960s," Media In Action Conference, University of Siegen, Germany, June 2010.
  30. "'Crisis, What Crisis?' Reconsidering the Software Crisis of the 1960s and the Origins of Software Engineering,’ Final ESF Eurocores Program Inventing Europe, Sofia, Bulgaria, June 2010.
  31. "Dijkstra's Crisis: The End of Algol and the Beginning of Software Engineering: 1968-72," workshop on History of Software, European Styles, Lorentz Center, University of Leiden, Netherlands, September 2010.
  32. "The Red Route to Open Access? Scholarly Publishing and the Politics of National Identity in Post-Soviet Ukraine," (with Maria Haigh) Canadian Association for Information Science annual meeting, Fredericton, June 2011.
  33. "The Future of Information History," annual meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, New Orleans, October 2011.
  34. "How Information First Became a Thing: Early Developments in the United States and Soviet Union" (with Maria Haigh), Canadian Association for Information Science annual meeting, Waterloo, May/June 2012.
  35. "Stored Program Considered Harmful: History and Historiography," Computability in Europe 2013: The Nature of Computation,Milan, July 2013.
  36. "Rethinking the Stored Program Concept," 24th International Congress of History of Science, Technology and Medicine, Manchester, UK, July 2013.
  37. "IBM as the Very Model of a Modern Major Corporation," Business History Conference, Frankfurt, Germany, March 2014.
  38. “Making Time for the Past: Historical Scholarship in the iSchool,” 2015 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association for Information Science (CAIS), Ottawa, June 2015. (with Nadine Kozak)
  39. “We Have Never Been Digital,” Digital Practices: Situating People, Things and Data, Siegen University, June 2016.

“The Other Women of ENIAC,” Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Technology, Philadelphia, October 2017.

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