Fire in the Valley: The Making of the Personal Computer, Collector's Edition
by Paul Freiberger and Michael Swaine
In 1984, two beat reporters wrote what has since become the seminal work on the creation of the PC industry. Now back by popular demand, this updated re-issue of Fire in the Valley contains more outrageous tales about, and photos of, the individuals that created the personal computer.This is the story of those pioneering individuals and the industry they founded, often in their own words, but always with an insider's view. A fascinating account of an idea that caught fire, Fire in the Valley bec...
A History of Modern Computing (History of Computing)
by Paul E. Ceruzzi
This history covers modern computing from the development of the first electronic digital computer through the advent of the World Wide Web. The author concentrates on four key moments of transition: the transition of the computer in the late 1940s from a specialized scientific instrument to a commercial product; the emergence of small systems in the late 1960s; the beginning of personal computing in the 1970s; and the spread of networking after 1985. Within this chronological narrative, the boo...
The intertwining forces of computers and espionage are reshaping the entire world: what was once the preserve of a few intelligence agencies now affects us all. BBC security correspondent Gordon Corera's narrative takes us through the Cold War and the birth of the Internet to the present era of hackers and surveillance. The book is rich with historical detail and characters, as well as astonishing revelations about espionage carried out in recent times by the UK, US, and China. Using unique acce...
The book presents the life and works of one of Germany's most famous computer scientists, Carl Adam Petri. It is written in a vivid and entertaining manner, providing an in-depth discussion of the background behind Petri's best-known contribution to computer science, the Petri net. In this way the book can be read as a first introduction to nets, but it also covers the theoretical, physical and philosophical foundations behind nets, thus facilitating a comprehensive understanding of the wider ra...
Konrad Zuse is one of the great pioneers of the computer age. He created thefirst fully automated, program controlled, freely programmable computer using binary floating-point calculation. It was operational in 1941. He built his first machines in Berlin during the Second World War, with bombs falling all around, and after the war he built up a company that was taken over by Siemens in 1967. Zuse was an inventor in the traditional style, full of phantastic ideas, but also gifted with a powerful...
Creating the Sinclair ZX Spectrum Vega
by Sir Clive Sinclair, Paul Andrews, and Consultant Physician David Levy
New Media Behind the Iron Curtain
by Krzysztof Jajko, Maria B. Garda, and Piotr Sitarski
Als im Jahre 1940 ein schwedischer Mathematiker die Verschlusselung fur die deutsche strategische Militarkommunikation knackte, war dies eine der groessten Errungenschaften in der Geschichte der Kryptologie. Die fachlich prazise Geschichte dieses Ereignisses kann mit allen Bestandteilen eines klassischen Thrillers aufwarten: Eine verzweifelte Kriegssituation, ein launischer, heimlich tuender und gleichzeitig genialer Mathematiker mit einer besonderen Begabung fur die Kryptologie, und eine atembe...
This book is an easy-to-follow guide full of hands-on examples that allows you to learn and build visually compelling web applications using the Kendo UI library. This book will do wonders for web developers having knowledge of HTML and Javascript and want to polish their skills in building applications using the Kendo UI library.
Der erste funktionsfähige Computer wurde von Konrad Zuse gebaut. Er war 1941 betriebsbereit. Der Erfinder dieser ersten vollautomatischen, programmgesteuerten, frei programmierbaren, in binärer Gleitpunktzahlrechnung arbeitenden Rechenanlage wäre am 22. Juni 2010 hundert Jahre alt geworden. In diesem Buch erzählt er die Geschichte seines Lebens, das wie kaum ein anderes mit der Geschichte der bedeutendsten technischen Entwicklung seines Jahrhunderts verbunden ist - einer Entwicklung, die mit der...
This book, aimed at general readers, covers the entirety of computing history from antiquity to the present, placing the story of computing into the broader context of politics, economics, society, and more. Computers dominate the world we live in, and this book describes how we got here. The Computer: A Brief History of the Machine That Changed the World covers topics from early efforts at mathematical computation back in ancient times, such as the abacus and the Antikythera device, through Ba...
Der beruhmter Mathematiker Egon Balas nimmt seine Leser mit auf eine erstaunliche Lebensreise: Sie erfahren von grossem Mut, grenzenlosem Optimismus und von dem Leid, das Balas auf seinem Weg von Transsilvanien nach Pennsylvania begleitete. Egon Balas wurde 1922 als Sohn ungarisch-judischer Eltern geboren, ein Grossteil seiner Familie wurde zwischen 1942-1944 ermordet. Nach dem 2. Weltkrieg geriet er in Opposition zum stalinistischen Regime in Rumanien und emigrierte 1966 in die USA. Balas gilt...
Over the past sixty years, the spectacular growth of the technologies associated with the computer is visible for all to see and experience. Yet, the science underpinning this technology is less visible and little understood outside the professional computer science community. As a scientific discipline, computer science stands alongside the likes of molecular biology and cognitive science as one of the most significant new sciences of the post Second World War era. In this Very Short Introduc...
Daten sind das neue Gold - und neuronale Netze haben bereits einigen Unternehmen geholfen, diesen Schatz auszugraben. Verschaffen Sie sich mit diesem Buch innerhalb kürzester Zeit einen soliden Überblick über neuronale Netze. Nach der Lektüre dieses Buches kennen Sie den historischen Werdegang dieser leistungsfähigen Approximatoren und Sie sind vertraut mit den aktuell wichtigsten Begriffen. Des Weiteren kennen Sie die Möglichkeiten sowie die Grenzen neuronaler Netze. Dieses Buch richtet sich in...
A People's History of Computing in the United States
by Joy Lisi Rankin
Silicon Valley gets all the credit for digital creativity, but this account of the pre-PC world, when computing meant more than using mature consumer technology, challenges that triumphalism.The invention of the personal computer liberated users from corporate mainframes and brought computing into homes. But throughout the 1960s and 1970s a diverse group of teachers and students working together on academic computing systems conducted many of the activities we now recognize as personal and socia...
Women and Underrepresented Minorities in Computing (History of Computing)
by William Aspray
This text examines in detail the issue of the underrepresentation of women, African Americans, American Indians, and Hispanics in the computing disciplines in the U.S. The work reviews the underlying causes, as well as the efforts of various nonprofit organizations to correct the situation, in order to both improve social equity and address the shortage of skilled workers in this area. Topics and features: presents a digest and historical overview of the relevant literature from a range of disci...
Cliff Stoll was an astronomer turned systems manager at Lawrence Berkeley Lab when a 75-cent accounting error alerted him to the presence of an unauthorized users on his system. The hacker's code name was "Hunter"-- a mystery invader hiding inside a twisting electronic labyrinth, breaking into U.S. computer systems and stealing sensitive military and security information. Stoll began a one-man hunt of his own, spying on the spy-- and plunging into an incredible international probe that finally g...
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The official book behind the Academy Award-winning film The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley It is only a slight exaggeration to say that the British mathematician Alan Turing (1912-1954) saved the Allies from the Nazis, invented the computer and artificial intelligence, and anticipated gay liberation by decades--all before his suicide at age forty-one. This New York Times-bestselling biography of the founder of computer science, wit...
Direct from Dell: Strategies That Revolutionized an Industry
by Michael Dell
Analog- Und Digitalrechner, Automaten Und Roboter, Wissenschaftliche Instrumente, Schritt-Fur-Schritt-Anleitungen
by Herbert Bruderer
Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, The Innovatorsis Walter Isaacson's story of the people who created the computer and the Internet. It is destined to be the standard history of the digital revolution and a guide to how innovation really works. What talents allowed certain inventors and entrepreneurs to turn their disruptive ideas into realities? What led to their creative leaps? Why did some succeed and others fail? In his exciting saga, Isaacson begins with Ada Lovelace,...