Involvement with and writing and editing for the IEEE and IEEE Computer Society
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Positions
Life member of the IEEE and member of the IEEE Computer Society.
Founding chair of the IEEE Internet Award committee (involved through the first several of its award cycles).
Member of the editorial board of the IEEE
Annals of the History of Computing since 2006.
Anecdotes editor 2008-2012
Interviews editor 2012-2013
Anecdotes editor again starting in 2013
Acting Editor-in-Chief June 2014 to December 2014
Events and Sightings editor, starting mid-2020
Computer Society Certificate of Appreciation in Recognition of Outstanding Service, awarded in 2013, for my work with the Annals
IEEE Computer Society Outstanding Contribution Award, June 2015: “In recognition of outstanding service to the success of the magazine IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, and in particular for his leadership as Acting Editor-in-Chief.”
Member of the IEEE Computer Society History Committee, 2011-to present
I remain a member of the History Committee and am co-maintainer of its website.
Computer Society Certificate of
Appreciation in Recognition of Outstanding Service, awarded in 2011, for my work with the History Committee.
Member of the Computer Society's Golden Core, awarded in 2013, for my "contributions to the Society's success."
My journey doing computing history for the IEEE Computer Society
Documents (in chronological order—latest at the bottom)
Terminal Access to the ARPA Network—Experience and Improvements (with N.W. Mimno, B.P.
Cosell, S.C. Butterfield and J.B. Levin), Proceedings of the Seventh Annual IEEE Computer Society
International Conference, San Francisco, California, February 1973, pp. 39-43; reprinted in Computer
Networking, R.P. Blanc and I.W. Cotton (eds.), IEEE Press, 1976, pp. 287-291.
Reliability Issues in the ARPA Network (with W.R. Crowther and J.M. McQuillan), Proceedings of the
ACM/IEEE Third Data Communications Symposium, November 1973, pp. 159-160; also in Computer
Networking, R.P. Blanc and I.W. Cotton (eds.), IEEE Press, 1976, pp. 142-143.
Computing Networks from Minis through Maxis: Are They for Real? (with N.W. Mimno, B.P.Cosell,
S.C. Butterfield, J.B. Levin, H.S. McDonald, P.M. Carp, T.N. Pike, Jr., F.F. Kuo, N. Abramson, J.G.
Fletcher, A.M. Pfaff, D.P. Jasper, J.R. Pickens, J.L. Owens), Proceedings of the Seventh Annual IEEE Computer Society International Conference, San Francisco, California, February 1973, pp. 248.
The ARPANET TELNET Protocol: Its Purpose, Principles, Implementation, and Impact on Host
Operating System Design (with J. Davidson, W. Hathaway, N. Mimno, J. Postel, and R. Thomas),
Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Fifth Data Communications Symposium, September 1977, pp. 4-10 to 4-18;
reprinted in A Practical View of Computer Communication Protocols, John M. McQuillan and Vinton G. Cerf,
IEEE, 1978, pp. 244-253; also reprinted in Innovations in Internetworking, Craig Partridge (ed.), Artech
House Inc., 1988, pp. 322-330.
Bernie Cosell and I
wrote an anecdote about the Development of TELNET's Negotiated Options, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Volume 25, Number 2, April-June 2003, pp. 80-82.
Norsk Data: 40th Anniversary Celebrations, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, volume 30 number 1, January-March 2008, Events and Sightings column, pp. 83-84; the report start at the bottom right of the page.
50th Anniversary of MIT's Compatible Time-Sharing System, IEEE Annals of the History of
Computing, October-December 2011, pp.~84-85; also cited in December 2011, with a link to the Annals piece, on the Computer Society's ``Computing Then'' website.
Fiftieth Anniversary of MIT's Compatible Time-Sharing System, Computer, November 2011, p. 71.
Computer Society History Activities, Computer, November 2011, p. 72 (without author listed).
Computing memoir for the IEEE Global History Network First-Person website, July 2011.
Editor's Note, Anecdotes Department, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, October-December 2011, pp. 56.
Interview of Peter Denning, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing October-December 2012, pp. 72-77.
The full interview of which Denning's Annals interview is a shortened version.
Interview of Rolf Skår, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing January-March 2013, pp. 72-77. The full interview of which Rolf Skår's Annals interview is a shortened version.
Book review published in the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, vol. 36 no. 1, 2014, pp. 71-73: The review covers The Essential Knuth, an interview of Donald Knuth by Edgar Daylight; Pluralism in Software Engineering: Turing Award Winner Peter Naur Explains, another interview booklet by Daylight; and Daylight's book Dawn of Software Engineering—from Turing to Dijkstra.
Interview of Deborah Estrin (edited by Dag Spicer from the transcript of the original recording), IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, volume 36, number 3, 2014, pp. 64-69.
From the Editor's Desk, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, volume 36, number 3, 2014, p. 2.
Review of Tracy Kidder book A Truck Full of Money, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, volume 38, number 4, 2016, pp. 95-96.
Report on the Software Industry Special Interest Group's desktop-publishing pioneers meeting at the Computer History Museum, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Events and Sightings column, vol. 39 no. 3, 2017, pp. 65-66.
Report on two 50th anniversary computing events in Norway, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Events and Sightings column, vol. 39 no. 4, 2017, pp. 93-94.
Editor's note on More about Atex, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, special issue on desktop computing, vol. 40, no. 3, 2018, pp. 32-38.
Interview of Charles Bigelow, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, special issue on desktop computing, vol. 40, no. 3, 2018, pp. 95-103.
