Accounting

Administration

Astrology

Astronomy

Commerce

Entertainment

Modeling

Navigation Gilman (2, 151-163) describes some of the techniques of Lewis and Clark in their journey from St. Louis to the Pacific in the early 1800's.

This subject is so huge that I wonder how in the world to do anything useful with it. However, this is where computing meets humanity, and therefore, it probably is one of the most important parts of the history of computing. So let the collection of notes begin, and let's see where it leads.

Real-Time Control

Robotics

Science

Sorting Knuth (1, 382-388) describes some early development in sorting beginning with Hollerth's machine for the 1890 US census.

VisiCalc
 

Notes

1. Donald E. Knuth. The Art of Computer Programming, vol. 3, Sorting and Searching (Addison-Wesley, 1973).

2. Carolyn Gilman, Lewis and Clark: Across the Divide (Smithsonian Books, 2003).