Bibliography

This page is not intended as a complete bibliography.
If there's something I really ought to include, please mail me.

  1. R D Boyle, Who shall we put on the postage stamps?, (pdf). This is an early draft of an internal report (University of Leeds, School of Computing, 2003.10).
  2. E Garfield, What's in a name? The eponymic route to immortality, Essays of an Information Scientist, 6, 384-395, 1983. PDF.
  3. M R Henwood and I Rival, Eponymy in mathematical nomenclature: What's in a name, and what should be?, The Mathematical Intelligencer, 2, 204-205, 1979,
  4. J N Lee (ed.), International Biographical Dictionary of Computer Pioneers , Fitzroy Dearborn, 1995.
  5. J D H Smith, In defence of eponymy, The Mathematical Intelligencer, 3, 89-90, 1980,
  6. A history of the early days.
  7. ... and a 50-year time line.

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