The Rutherford Journal

The Rutherford Journal is a peer-reviewed academic journal published in New Zealand that covers the history and philosophy of science and technology.
It publishes invited articles and is edited by Jack Copeland (University of Canterbury). The journal is published annually and was established in December 2005 by Copeland. Full text of articles is freely available online in HTML format.
In 2010 the journal published "A Special Issue on the History of Computing". Other past issues have focused on Alan Turing, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence.
The Rutherford Journal is named after the chemist and physicist Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937), a New Zealander, who studied for a BA at the Canterbury College (Christchurch) in 1890.
The journal is indexed as an open access scholarly resource and journal and in various index lists. It was listed in an article on electronic journals in the Journal for the Association of History and Computing and included in the Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences. The journal features technology as diverse as totalisators and the CSIRAC computer.

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