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Program in the History of Computing

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History of Computing - Software for Europe

SOFT-EU

SOFT-EU addresses the role of software in the shaping of post-war Europe through the tensions between two contrasting
modes of computer technology appropriation: the direct importation of applications software, and the development of
software through university-industry co-entrepreneurship; absorbing IBM-culture versus aspiring an ALGOL-culture.
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Individual projects

The individual projects of the Software for Europe project: Electrologica's software Co-entrepreneurship and the emergence of a Dutch software industry; Czech(oslovak) participation in the ALGOL effort; and Using IBM in Europe to recapture the lead? Co-constructing computer expertise in Europe and visions of European know-how through IBM and its technology.
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Associated projects

Projects associated to the Software for Europe project.
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The team and people in SOFT-EU

The Software for Europe team and the people in it.
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