Historical Computing

Computing and Historical Phonology

We introduce the proceedings of the workshop ‘Computing and Historical Phonology: 9th Meeting of ACL Special Interest Group for Computational Morphology and Phonology’.

Historical Bibliography of Quantum Computing

A historical overview of tablet computing , GUIs and hypertext

In this paper we will present an historical overview of tablet computing, graphical user interfaces (GUI) and hypertext regarding all its modifications within 50 years of development. The goal of this paper is to show the important progression and also to compare different aspects. Therefore we classified all developments into three main timetables within the 20 century, starting from the 1940 ...

A News-Based Approach for Computing Historical Value-at-Risk

Within the field of finance, Value-at-Risk (VaR) is a widely adopted tool to assess portfolio risk. When calculating VaR based on historical stock return data, the data could be sensitive to outliers caused by seldom occurring news events in the sampled period. Using a data set of news events, of which the irregular events are identified using a Poisson distribution, we research whether the VaR...

Women in Computing n in Computing: Historical Roles, erpetual Glass Ceiling, and portunities

AMITA GOYAL Over the course of history, women have slowly begun to hold influential roles in the computing industry, Although progress has been made, the precipitous journey is not yet complete. This paper presents a historical analysis of the entrance and role of women in the computing industry, a discussion on the existence and impact of the glass ceiling, and a detailed and informative colle...