Martin Campbell-Kelly

Martin Campbell-Kelly

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Emeritus Professor

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Computer Science
Room CS326
University of Warwick
Coventry
CV4 7AL 		Tel: 024 7652 3193
Fax: 024 7657 3024
Email: M.Campbell-Kelly@warwick.ac.uk

 

RESEARCH PROFILE


Main research interests: history of computing, economics of the software industry, technology policy, and human computer interaction.

RESEARCH GROUPS

BACKGROUND


Martin Campbell-Kelly is emeritus professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Warwick, where he specializes in the history of computing. His books include "Computer: A History of the Information Machine," co-authored with William Aspray, "From Airline Reservations to Sonic the Hedgehog: A History of the Software Industry," and "ICL: A Business and Technical History." He is editor of the Collected Works of Charles Babbage. Professor Campbell-Kelly is a Fellow of the British Computer Society, visiting professor at Portsmouth University, and a columnist for the Communications of the ACM. He is a member of the ACM History Committee, a council member of the British Society for the History of Mathematics, and a committee member of the BCS Computer Conservation Society. He is a member of the editorial boards of the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, the International Journal for the History of Engineering and Technology, the Rutherford Journal, and editor-in-chief of the Springer Series in the History of Computing.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS


  • Campbell-Kelly M,Hamilton R, (2004) 'From National Champions to Little Ventures: The NEB and the Second Wave of IT in Britain 1975-1985' in Information Technology Policy: An International History, 169 - 186, Editors: Richard Coopey (1467-2227), Oxford: Oxford University Press
  • Campbell-Kelly, M. (co-editor)(2003) The History of Mathematical Tables: From Sumer to Spreadsheets Editors: Campbell-Kelly, M. Croarken, M. Flood, R. Robson, E. (0198508417) Oxford: Oxford University Press
  • Campbell-Kelly M(2003) From Airline Reservations to Sonic the Hedgehog: A History of the Software Industry (0262033038) Cambridge, MA, USA: MIT Press
  • Campbell-Kelly, M. and Garcia-Swartz, D. D.(2010) 'The move to the middle: convergence of the open-source and proprietary software industries' International Journal of the Economics of Business 17 (2), 223 - 252 (1357-1516) [article]
  • Campbell-Kelly, M. and Garcia-Swartz, D. D.(2009) 'Pragmatism, not ideology: historical perspectives on IBM's adoption of open source software' Information Economics And Policy 21 (3), 229 - 224 (0167-6245)
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