Computerisation of the Icelandic State and Municipalities: 1964 to 1985

• Main Authors: Oddur Benediktsson, Jakob Jakobsson, Ólafur Rósmundsson, Jóhann Gunnarsson, Örn Kaldalóns, Helgi Sigvaldason, Jón Zophoniasson, Egill B. Hreinsson, Óttar Kjartansson, Gunnar Stefánsson
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2003
• Subjects: Iceland
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.108.6817; http://www.hi.is/~oddur/publicat/03/HiNC/BenediktssonStatePre.pdf

Abstract. The paper relates how some key IT applications were developed in Iceland following the introduction of the first computers in 1964. The key applications treated are the National Register of Persons, real estate assessment, financial systems, centralised processing of bank checks, fish stock abundance computations, IT in fish processing plants, the control of hydroelectric power stations, and the challenge of adopting the Icelandic alphabet to the use of computers.