Writing for the Annals

• Writing for Annals departments

• Submitting articles to the Annals for peer review
  Feature articles in the Annals should be scholarly looks at computing history, which includes computing hardware,software, the computer industry, and social contexts, and more. Typically they are about 5,000 to 8,000 words long, but they can be longer or shorter at the editors' discretion. These articles go through a formal, single-blind peer review process. An article can be submitted for peer review by going to the Manuscript Central system (https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/annals-cs). If the writer is uncertain if a topic would be appropriate for the Annals, he or she can send a draft to the editor-in-chief; other editors and editorial board members can also give advice.

Auxiliary content related to Annals articles and departments

• Relating to 2018 and 2019 special issues on desktop publishing

• Relating to IBM's ACS project: In 2015 and 2016, the Annals published two papers on IBM's ACS project:
  1. Brian Randell's paper entitled "IBM's Project Y and ACS project" (IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, vol. 37, no. 3, July-September 2015);
  2. A paper entitled "The ACS Project" by Mark Smotherman, Edward Sussenguth, and Russell Robelen (being published in early 2016).
  
  There was no room in the Annals' page budget for the detailed draft memo from 1966 on dynamic instruction scheduling that accompanied the submission of Brian's paper.
  
  Fred Buelow, Dan Murphy, and John Zasio sketched an article on ACS circuits technology. However, they have been forced to abandon that effort before submitting a completed paper. We post here a 2014 draft of that proposed paper.
  
  Lynn Conway has an ACS archive, and Mark Smotherman has another ACS website.

• Related to Tom Van Vleck's report ("Events and Sightings", IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, vol.37, no. 1, pp. 83-86, Jan.-Mar. 2015): the wonderful multicians.org website

• Related to Dan Murphy's history and TENEX and TOP-20 ("Anecdotes", IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, vol.37, no. 1, pp. 83-86, Jan.-Mar. 2015): Dan's TECO, TENEX, and TOP-20 Papers

  Link to 19 instances of "web extras" for articles and departments from volume 23 to volume 31.

• Issue 23-3, Events and Sightings web extras
• Issue 23-4, Events and Sightings web extras
• Issue 24-1, Events and Sightings web extras
• Issue 24-2, Events and Sightings web extras
• Issue 24-2, Punched Cards: A Brief Tutorial
• Issue 24-4, Events and Sightings web extras
• Issue 25-1, Events and Sightings web extras
• Issue 25-2, Anecdote, Origin of the Term Minicomputer
• Issue 26-2, Anecdote, James Humberd Computer Memories
• Issue 27-2, Events and Sightings web extras
• Issue 28-1, Educational Technology at BBN Web Extra
• Issue 28-2, The Second Life of ENIAC
• Issue 28-4, Anecdote, Word Processing—Before and After
• Issue 28-4, Word Processing Timeline
• Issue 30-1, Issue 30-1, Events and Sightings web extras
• Issue 30-1, Economic Perspectives on the History of the Computer Time-Sharing Industry, 1965-1985
• Issue 30-1, Fermat Meets SWAC: Vandiver, the Lehmers, Computers and Number Theory
• Issue 31-1, Events and Sightings web extras
• Issue 31-1, Further reading for Biography of Jean Sammet

About the Annals in other Computer Society Publications

• The Computer Society has a new publication, Computing Edge which features publications from the other dozen or so magazines the Society publishes. Each issue has a summary page noting some recent publications in each magazine.

Annals finding and bibliographic aids

• One page list of volume-issue links
• Complete list from the Anecdotes Dept.
• List from the Biographies Dept.
• Complete list from the Interviews Dept.
• List from the Reviews Dept.
• List of articles from volumes 1-17 that EIC Mike Williams had made (.xls file)
• Another list, volume 1-17, Mike Williams had made, sortable by department (.xls file)
  From Nelson Beebe's massive bibliography collection

• Tables of contents of the Annals in one linear listfor volumes 1-13 (before it became the IEEE Annals)
• Bibliography of the Annals
• Bibliography in BibTeX format
• Tables of contents of the Annals in one linear list from volume 14 on (after it became the IEEE Annals)
• Bibliograpy of the IEEE Annals
• Bibliography in BibTeX format

Annals history

• An Excel file of the history of holders of named editorial board positions, e.g., editors-in-chief, associate editors-in-chief, associate editors, ..., and department editors
  A present this list is based only on looking at the masthead of the first issue of each year; it needs to be refined by looking at every issue of each year.