Martin Campbell-Kelly
Biographic Data
| ID | 3785574 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martin Campbell-Kelly |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martin |
| FAMILY NAME | Campbell-Kelly |
| SIGNATURE | CAMPBELL-KELLY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warwick |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
What do we know about duopolies? Insights from the history of cellular phones
Information technology clusters and regional growth in America, 1970–1980
The History, Geography, and Economics of America’s Early Computer Clusters, Part 2
This article is the second part of a comprehensive study on the rise of America’s early computer clusters from the perspective of evolutionary economic geography. That is, we attempt to identify the historical processes that led to the formation of the early clusters of computer production in the United States. Here we explore explanations for the genesis of the agglomerations identified in part 1. We suggest that the clusters we observe in the e…
The History, Geography, and Economics of America’s Early Computer Clusters, Part 1
This study is an interpretation of the early computer industry in America from the perspective of evolutionary economic geography. We analyze the County Business Patterns microdata files for the 1970s and identify a variety of early computer clusters. We explore the economic factors that led to the formation of these clusters, including preexisting conditions and Marshallian externalities, and suggest that a combination of these factors goes a lo…
Clustering in the Creative Industries
We use several different sources (a 1970 Roster of Organizations in Data Processing and the 1960 and 1970 Censuses of Population) to study patterns of geographic clustering at the very origins of the software industry. We find a strong trend toward clustering of the industry in a few metropolitan areas. Furthermore, we uncover a tendency in the early software industry to agglomerate in close proximity to some of its main customers. This tendency …
Chips and change
Chips and change: how crisis reshapes the semiconductor industry, by Clair Brown and Greg Linden, Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, 2009, xi + 257 pp., £25.95 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-262-01346-8 As portraye
From Products to Services
The computer-services and software industry used to be conveniently divided into three main sectors: mass-market software vendors, enterprise software vendors, and computer services. The three sectors were distinct, because personal computers, corporate mainframes, and online computer networks operated in relative isolation. The arrival of the Internet effectively connected everything, facilitating the entry of mass-market vendors into enterprise…
A History of Online Information Services, 1963-1976 (review)
Reviewed by: A History of Online Information Services, 1963–1976 Martin Campbell-Kelly (bio) A History of Online Information Services, 1963–1976. By Charles P. Bourne and Trudi Bellardo Hahn. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2003. Pp. xiv+493. $45. This is an important and encyclopedic contribution to the histories of information processing and information science. It is the story of the development of on-line information services—the ancestors of sy…
When Information Came of Age
Daniel Headrick's excellent book probably could not have been conceived fifteen years ago, before the emergence of the Internet and the World Wide Web. The book embodies the truism that each generation of historians reinterprets the past for the readers of its own day. It belongs to a growing genre that seeks to expose the historical origins of our present information age--other recent examples include Michael Hobart and Zachary Schiffman's Infor…
Not Only Microsoft
In the thirteen years following the introduction of IBM's first personal computer in 1982, Microsoft rose from being a small concern to become the colossus of the PC software industry. However, Microsoft was not the only software company to profit from the PC-software boom: firms like AutoDesk, Lotus Development, WordPerfect Corp., Ashton-Tate, Novell, Borland, Adobe Systems, Aldus, Symantec, and the Santa Cruz Operation all had their time in the…
Computer
The First Electronic Computer
Not Only Microsoft
In the thirteen years following the introduction of IBM's first personal computer in 1982, Microsoft rose from being a small concern to become the colossus of the PC software industry. However, Microsoft was not the only software company to profit from the PC-software boom: firms like AutoDesk, Lotus Development, WordPerfect Corp., Ashton-Tate, Novell, Borland, Adobe Systems, Aldus, Symantec, and the Santa Cruz Operation all had their time in the…
From Products to Services
The computer-services and software industry used to be conveniently divided into three main sectors: mass-market software vendors, enterprise software vendors, and computer services. The three sectors were distinct, because personal computers, corporate mainframes, and online computer networks operated in relative isolation. The arrival of the Internet effectively connected everything, facilitating the entry of mass-market vendors into enterprise…
The First Electronic Computer
Computer
When Information Came of Age
Daniel Headrick's excellent book probably could not have been conceived fifteen years ago, before the emergence of the Internet and the World Wide Web. The book embodies the truism that each generation of historians reinterprets the past for the readers of its own day. It belongs to a growing genre that seeks to expose the historical origins of our present information age--other recent examples include Michael Hobart and Zachary Schiffman's Infor…
Not Only Microsoft
In the thirteen years following the introduction of IBM's first personal computer in 1982, Microsoft rose from being a small concern to become the colossus of the PC software industry. However, Microsoft was not the only software company to profit from the PC-software boom: firms like AutoDesk, Lotus Development, WordPerfect Corp., Ashton-Tate, Novell, Borland, Adobe Systems, Aldus, Symantec, and the Santa Cruz Operation all had their time in the…
A History of Online Information Services, 1963-1976 (review)
Reviewed by: A History of Online Information Services, 1963–1976 Martin Campbell-Kelly (bio) A History of Online Information Services, 1963–1976. By Charles P. Bourne and Trudi Bellardo Hahn. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2003. Pp. xiv+493. $45. This is an important and encyclopedic contribution to the histories of information processing and information science. It is the story of the development of on-line information services—the ancestors of sy…
From Products to Services
The computer-services and software industry used to be conveniently divided into three main sectors: mass-market software vendors, enterprise software vendors, and computer services. The three sectors were distinct, because personal computers, corporate mainframes, and online computer networks operated in relative isolation. The arrival of the Internet effectively connected everything, facilitating the entry of mass-market vendors into enterprise…
Clustering in the Creative Industries
We use several different sources (a 1970 Roster of Organizations in Data Processing and the 1960 and 1970 Censuses of Population) to study patterns of geographic clustering at the very origins of the software industry. We find a strong trend toward clustering of the industry in a few metropolitan areas. Furthermore, we uncover a tendency in the early software industry to agglomerate in close proximity to some of its main customers. This tendency …
Chips and change
Chips and change: how crisis reshapes the semiconductor industry, by Clair Brown and Greg Linden, Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, 2009, xi + 257 pp., £25.95 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-262-01346-8 As portraye
The History, Geography, and Economics of America’s Early Computer Clusters, Part 2
This article is the second part of a comprehensive study on the rise of America’s early computer clusters from the perspective of evolutionary economic geography. That is, we attempt to identify the historical processes that led to the formation of the early clusters of computer production in the United States. Here we explore explanations for the genesis of the agglomerations identified in part 1. We suggest that the clusters we observe in the e…
The History, Geography, and Economics of America’s Early Computer Clusters, Part 1
This study is an interpretation of the early computer industry in America from the perspective of evolutionary economic geography. We analyze the County Business Patterns microdata files for the 1970s and identify a variety of early computer clusters. We explore the economic factors that led to the formation of these clusters, including preexisting conditions and Marshallian externalities, and suggest that a combination of these factors goes a lo…
Information technology clusters and regional growth in America, 1970–1980
What do we know about duopolies? Insights from the history of cellular phones
Computer Science (10 works) · Economics (6 works) · World Wide Web (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Economic geography (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · History of Computing Technologies (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (3 works) · Digital Platforms and Economics (3 works)