The Arpanet IMP Program: Retrospective and Resurrection

Walden, David; Guys, IMP Software

doi:10.1109/mahc.2014.30

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“…With Besides book reviews, interviews, and brief reports in the Annals' Events & Sightings column, Dave published an article about the "resurrection" of the IMP program from an old listing for use in a patent trial [25], and co-authored articles about maintenance of the early ARPAnet [27], the history of Interleaf [6], and a two-part article about the history of TeX [1] [2].…”

Section: Computing Historianmentioning

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David Corydon Walden's Five Careers

McKenzie¹

2022

IEEE Annals Hist. Comput.

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Dave Walden, a key figure in the engineering history of the ARPAnet, loved learning new things. One of his learning practices was to write down everything he learned, to help solidify his knowledge, and to pass it on to others. He learned to type in high school to make it easier to get his thoughts on paper. He learned speed reading during his college years so he could rapidly expose himself to more material without reducing comprehension. He strove for excellence in every new area that attracted his interest. The result was five successful careers crammed into one lifetime: computer programmer, technology executive, quality expert, electronic publisher, and computing historian. Along with these careers, he developed expertise in bridge, chess, juggling, sailboat racing, and Celtic music. The biography that follows reflects the author's many decades of interaction with Walden, as a professional colleague and personal friend.

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Section: Computing Historianmentioning

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David Corydon Walden's Five Careers

McKenzie¹

2022

IEEE Annals Hist. Comput.

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“…While historiographic uses of emulation are sparse, there are precedents for emulation as an interpretive historical methodology. For example, researchers have taken advantage of emulators to restore and analyze past systems, such as Fortran [34], the Arpanet Interface Message Processor (IMP) [49], the original EDSAC [10] -to reproduce the first instance of "debugging" -and Tesselatoran object-oriented graphics system in Sweden from the 1980s [32]. Video game studies has also made use of embedded emulation in web pages to provide historical context [28,35].…”

Section: Emulation: Definition and Potentials For Historical Research In Cscwmentioning

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An Archive of Interfaces: Exploring the Potential of Emulation for Software Research, Pedagogy, and Design

Cardoso-Llach

Kaltman

Erdolu

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Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.

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This paper explores the potential of distributed emulation networks to support research and pedagogy into historical and sociotechnical aspects of software. Emulation is a type of virtualization that re-creates the conditions for a piece of legacy software to operate on a modern system. The paper first offers a review of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), and Science and Technology Studies (STS) literature engaging with software as historical and sociotechnical artifacts, and with emulation as a vehicle of scholarly inquiry. It then documents the novel use of software emulations as a pedagogical resource and research tool for legacy software systems analysis. This is accomplished through the integration of the Emulation as a Service Infrastructure (EaaSI) distributed emulation network into a university-level course focusing on computer-aided design (CAD). The paper offers a detailed case study of a pedagogical experience oriented to incorporate emulations into software research and learning. It shows how emulations allow for close, user-centered analyses of software systems that highlight both their historical evolution and core interaction concepts, and how they shape the work practices of their users. CCS Concepts: • Applied computing → Computer-aided design; • Human-centered computing → Empirical studies in interaction design; Interaction design theory, concepts and paradigms; Interface design prototyping; • Information systems → Digital libraries and archives.

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ARPANET and its boundary devices: modems, IMPs, and the inter-structuralism of infrastructures

McKelvey

Driscoll

2018

Internet Histories

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The Arpanet IMP Program: Retrospective and Resurrection

Cited by 6 publications

References 12 publications

David Corydon Walden's Five Careers

David Corydon Walden's Five Careers

An Archive of Interfaces: Exploring the Potential of Emulation for Software Research, Pedagogy, and Design

ARPANET and its boundary devices: modems, IMPs, and the inter-structuralism of infrastructures

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