Plenary session – Keynote

•  Dr James W. Cortada. A world full of computers: How did that happen? (625 Kb)

Parallel session 1 .1 – Computerizing Public Sector Industries I

• Bjørn Nagell. Computerization of the Norwegian Land Register: An early example of outsourcingand still    a model for good practice  
• Johan Gribbe. Controlling the Battlefield: Computing and operational command in the Swedish armed forces, 1966-89  
• Arne Kaijser. The use of computers for controlling electricity flows in Sweden, 1950-1980
• Norodd Hagenson. Operations Analysis Computing at FFI 1970 – 95

Parallel session 1.2 – Nordic Networking

• Jacob Palme. Before the Internet (49 Kb)  
• Tomas Ohlin. The baby networks:  Nordic positions before the Internet  
• Yngvar Lundh. Development of Internet technology: And Norwegian participation (1157 Kb)  
• Paal Spilling. The Internet Development Process: Observations and Reflections (4399 Kb)

Parallel session 2.1 – Computerizing Public Sector Industries II

•  Ingeborg Torvik Sølvberg. Re-engineering Norwegian research libraries – 1970-80 (302 Kb)
• Else Hansen. New Fields of Knowledge – Old Ideas about Registration   
• Isabelle Dussauge and Julia Peralta. Instruments of Surveillance Welfare: Computerizing unemployment and  health in 1960s & 1970s Sweden  
• Gunnar Klein. History of electronic prescriptions in Sweden – from time sharing systems via smartcards to EDI (183 Kb)  
• Karin Kajbjer, Ragnar Nordberg and Gunnar Klein. Electronic Health Records in Sweden – From Administrative Management to Clinical Decision Support (140 Kb)

Parallel session 2.2 – Nordic Software Development

• Otto Vinter. The use of interpretation for data acquisition and control; its impact on software development and project management  (2165 Kb)
• Peter Hughes. Computer systems performance engineering in Trondheim: origins and development (1970 – 1995) (496 Kb)  
• Harold Lawson and Kurt Lennart Lundbäck. Provisioning of Highly Reliable Real-Time Systems (1237 Kb)
• Stig Berild and Eva Lindencrona. Information modelling: Forty years of freindship  
• Birger Møller-Pedersen. Scandinavian Contributions to Object-Oriented Modeling Languages

Parallel session 3.1 – Computerizing Management and Financial Industries

• Gustav Sjöblom. Management Information Systems in Sweden (166 Kb)  
•  Björn Thodenius, Bernardo Bátiz-Lazo and Tobias Karlsson. The history of the Swedish ATM
•  Jan Hellstrøm. The introduction of an electronic registration and settlement system for the Norwegian securities market (23064 Kb)  
• Björn Barth Jacobsen. Confidence & Animal Spirits. How computing changed the audit profession. From inside

Parallel session 3.2 – The Making of a Nordic Computing Industry I

• Søren Duus Østergaard. Early History of Computing in Denmark (4557 Kb)
• Lars Heide. Making business of a revolutionary new technology: The Eckert-Mauchly company, 1945-1951
• Petri Paju. IBM Productions in the Nordic Countries  
• Sverrir Ólafsson. The  Presence  of  the  IBM  Branch  Office  in  Iceland      
  1967  -­  1992 

Parallel session 4.1 – Users and Systems Development

• Anker Helms Jorgensen. Computing on the Desktop: From Batch to Online in Two Large Danish Software Houses  
• Yngve Sundblad. Utopia - Participatory Design from Scandinavia to the World (9007 Kb)  
• Per Lundin, Designing Democracy: The UTOPIA-project and the Role of the Nordic Labor Movement in Technological Change during the 1980s (79 Kb)
• Ilshammar: Trade union computing - a success story? (197 Kb)  

Parallel session 4.2 – The Making of a Nordic Computing Industry II

• Kari Kotiranta. Personal Computers: A Gateway to Personal Computing (3594 Kb)  
• Yngvar Lundh. Norwegian computer technology: founding a new industry (10230 Kb)  
• Tor Olav Steine. The founding, fantastic growth, and fast decline of Norsk Data AS (6259 Kb)
• Arne Sølvberg. The Norwegian national IT-Plan 1987-90: Whence it came, what it was, and how it ende (89 Kb) d

Plenary session: Panel - What Can We Learn from the Nordic Computing History?
Moderator: Tomas Ohlin

Plenary session: A Presentation of Three Research Projects on the History of Computing

• Per Lundin. Documenting the Use of Computers in Swedish Society between 1950 and 1980 (11506 Kb)
• Per Lundin, Isabelle Dussauge, Johan Gribbe, Arne Kaijser, Julia Peralta, Gustav Sjöblom and Björn Thodenius. Precursors of the IT Nation: Computer Use and Control in Swedish Society, 1955–1985 (119 Kb)
• Peter Du Rietz and Gustav Sjöblom. When Everyone Became a User: The IT-nation Sweden from BASIC to Blog (85 Kb)

Parallel session 5.1 – Computerizing Art, Media, and Schools

• Jaakko Suominen. History of Digital Dating – ”Computer-balls” and digital pairing in Finland from the 1960s to the present  
• Anna Orrghen. Collaborations between Engineers and Artists in the Making of Computer Art in Sweden 1967–1986  
• Jan Engh. IBM’s Norwegian grammar project 1988-91 (15190 Kb)  
• Petri Saarikoski. Computer Courses in Finnish Schools during 1980-1995 (3699 Kb)  
• Lennart Rolandsson. Teacher Pioneers in the Introduction of Computing Technology in Swedish upper Secondary School (305 Kb)

Parallel session 5.2 – Nordic Research in Software and Systems Development

• Dines Bjørner, Christian Gram, Leif Rystrøm and Ole Oest. Dansk Datamatik Center (676 Kb)
• Janis Bubenko. SISU  - The Swedish Institute for Systems Development  
• Kjell Bratbergsengen. Cloud computing in the seventies, or the discovery of hash based relational algebra (1352 Kb)
• Benkt Wangler. The TEMPORA Approach:  Information Systems Development Based on Explicit Business Rules with Time (9442 Kb)  
• Lars-Åke Johansson and Mats Gustafsson. RAMATIC - a case shell platform   

Plenary session: Invited talk

• Dr Ivar Jacobson: SEMAT – Software engineering method and theory: What we can learn from history and what we should do about it

Parallel session 6.1 –Teaching at Nordic Universities

• Hans Andersin, Markku Syrjänen and Reijo Sulonen. Computer Science Education at Helsinki University of Technology. The First 10 years (1968–1978)  
• Darek Haftor, Stig C Holmberg, Ulrica Löfstedt, Christina Amcoff Nyström and Lena-Maria Öberg. Provincial Designer Design: A Creative Mix of Hard Restrictions and Soft Visions  
• Peter Johansen. Teaching image analysis at DIKU  
• Yngve Sundblad. Simula – Mother Tongue for a Generation of Nordic Programmers (2837 Kb)

Parallel session 6.2 – Historiographical and Methodological Reflections

• Petri Paju, Eric Malmi and Timo Honkela. Text mining and qualitative analysis of the Swedish IT history interviews  
• Henry Oinas-kukkonen, Harri Oinas-Kukkonen and Veronika Sušová. Methods for Computer Science History: A Classification of Methods and State of Art of Research Contributions in Nordic Computing  
• Rihards Balodis, Juris Borzovs, Inara Opmane, Andrejs Skuja and Evija Ziemele. Research directions profile in the Computing museum of the Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Latvia (IMCS) (13158 Kb)