The History of Open-Source

Abstract

The talk gives a brief history of open systems and free software since the development of the modern computer in the 1940s. The talk will give special attention to events and moments when new initiatives in open systems were established which are still affecting open systems to this day. There is also an attempt to compare the notion of open systems in computing to similar notions in other fields of human endeavor.

About Alex Feldman

Ph.D. Mathematics, University of Wisconsin, Madison; 1985. Thesis: Recursion Theory in a Partial Order with Greatest Lower Bound. Supervisor: Terry Millar M.S. Computer Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison; 1983. M.A. Mathematics, University of Wisconsin, Madison; 1981. B.S. Mathematics, Harvey Mudd College; 1978