The ''IEEE Annals of the History of Computing'' is a quarterly

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published by the

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. It covers the

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, and

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. It was founded in 1979 by the American Federation of Information Processing Societies. The journal publishes scholarly articles, interviews, "think pieces", and memoirs by computer pioneers, and news and events in the field. It was established in July 1979 as ''Annals of the History of Computing'', with

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. The journal became an IEEE publication in 1992, and was retitled to ''IEEE Annals of the History of Computing''. The 2020

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was 0.741. The current editor in chief is Troy Astarte at

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in Wales.

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