Virtual Museum of Computing
- Virtual Museum of Computing
The Virtual Museum of Computing (VMoC) is an eclectic collection of links and online resources concerning the history of computers and computer science [Virtual Museum of Computing Web Site. "IEEE Annals of the History of Computing", 18(4):67, 1996.] [ Bowen, J. P. et al., [http://www.jpbowen.com/pub/evsc05a.pdf The Development of Science Museum Websites: Case Studies] , In Leo Tan Wee Hin and Ramanathan Subramaniam (eds.), " [http://www.igi-pub.com/books/details.asp?id=4894 E-learning and Virtual Science Centers] ", Section 3: Case Studies, Chapter XVIII, pages 366–392. Idea Group Publishing, Hershey, USA, 2005.] . It includes links to other related museums, both real and virtual, around the world, as well as having its own virtual galleries of information. A particular feature is the early computing pioneer Alan Turing, among others.
This virtual museum was founded by Jonathan Bowen in 1994, originally at the Oxford University Computing Laboratory in the United Kingdom. It is now supported by Museophile and also forms part of the Virtual Library museums pages, hosted at London South Bank University and mirrored around the world.
See also
* Virtual Library museums pages
References
External links
* [http://vmoc.museophile.com/ Virtual Museum of Computing]
** [http://vmoc.museophile.com/pioneers/ Pioneers of Computing] gallery, including [http://www.turing.org.uk/ Alan Turing] and [http://vmoc.museophile.com/babbage/ Charles Babbage]
** [http://vmoc.museophile.com/algebra/ A Brief History of Algebra and Computing] gallery
** [http://vmoc.museophile.com/cards/ Early Microprocessor Instruction Set Cards] gallery
* [http://icom.museum/vlmp/computing.html VMoC ICOM mirror website]
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