Sessions and Presentations

Plenary session – Keynote

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

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  
• Tomas Ohlin. The baby networks:  Nordic positions before the Internet  
• Yngvar Lundh. Development of Internet technology: And Norwegian participation  
• Paal Spilling. The Internet Development Process: Observations and Reflections

Parallel session 2.1 – Computerizing Public Sector Industries II

•  Ingeborg Torvik Sølvberg. Re-engineering Norwegian research libraries – 1970-80
• 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  
• Karin Kajbjer, Ragnar Nordberg and Gunnar Klein. Electronic Health Records in Sweden – From Administrative Management to Clinical Decision Support

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 
• Peter Hughes. Computer systems performance engineering in Trondheim: origins and development (1970 – 1995)  
• Harold Lawson and Kurt Lennart Lundbäck. Provisioning of Highly Reliable Real-Time Systems
• 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  
•  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  
• 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
• 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  
• Per Lundin, Designing Democracy: The UTOPIA-project and the Role of the Nordic Labor Movement in Technological Change during the 1980s
• Ilshammar: Trade union computing - a success story? 

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

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

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
• 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
• Peter Du Rietz and Gustav Sjöblom. When Everyone Became a User: The IT-nation Sweden from BASIC to Blog

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  
• Petri Saarikoski. Computer Courses in Finnish Schools during 1980-1995  
• Lennart Rolandsson. Teacher Pioneers in the Introduction of Computing Technology in Swedish upper Secondary School

Parallel session 5.2 – Nordic Research in Software and Systems Development

• Dines Bjørner, Christian Gram, Leif Rystrøm and Ole Oest. Dansk Datamatik Center
• Janis Bubenko. SISU  - The Swedish Institute for Systems Development  
• Kjell Bratbergsengen. Cloud computing in the seventies, or the discovery of hash based relational algebra
• Benkt Wangler. The TEMPORA Approach:  Information Systems Development Based on Explicit Business Rules with Time  
• 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

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)