Tales of Electrologica

Gerard Alberts (1954) is an historian of digital cultures and historian of mathematical thought. He graduated in mathematics and took his PhD cum laude in History. Gerard's key contribution to the history of mathematical thinking is pinpointing the rise of mathematical modeling in the middle of the twentieth century. In history of computing his focus has been on the history of software, and history of hacker culture. Recent work has been on webarchaeology. He his member of the editorial board of Annals of the history of computing and of Internet histories. Gerard Alberts served the research Eurocores project "Software for Europe" (2007-2011) as its project leader. He is retired associate professor history of digital cultures at University of Amsterdam. Gerard Alberts is the editor of the Springer series History of Computing. Jan Friso Groote (1965) is a full professor in Formal Methods at Eindhoven University of Technology. His interest is in efficiently proving the correctness of the software in computer controlled systems. This for instance led to the book, Modeling and Analysis of Communicating Systems, The MIT Press 2014. Before commencing in Eindhoven, in 1997, he studied Computer Science at Twente University and wrote a PhD on process algebra at CWI, Amsterdam (1991), where he later became a leader of the research group SEN2.

Chapter 1. Electrologica, A Gem (Gerard Alberts).- Chapter 2. Philips and the Fate of Electrologica (Gerard Alberts).- Chapter 3. From the X1 to the X8 (Huub de Beer).- Chapter 4. Software Without Memory (Paul Klint).- Chapter 5. The Mathematical Center, ALGOL 60 and the Electrologica X8 (Frans Kruseman Aretz).- Chapter 6. History of Dekker's Algorithm for Mutual Exclusion (Dirk Dekker).- Chapter 7. The Electrologica X8 and the BOL Detector (René van Dantzig).- Chapter 8. An Early Experiment in Algorithmic Composition (Lambert Meertens).