This is a book about the computer revolution of the mid-twentieth century and the people who made it possible. Unlike most histories of computing, it is not a book about machines, inventors, or entrepreneurs. Instead, it tells the story of the vast but largely anonymous legions of computer specialists--programmers, systems analysts, and other software developers--who transformed the electronic computer from a scientific curiosity into the defining technology of the modern era. As the systems tha...
How did a small southwest town transform itself into a hotbed of research science, advanced technology and money? Tracking key figures in Santa Fe's emerging industries, Ed Regis explains how entrepreneurial scientists are using complexity theory and powerful, experimental computer programmes to create practical - and profitable - applications. Their efforts to convert vast, diverse data, whether chemical, biological or computational into useful information is leading to drugs and medical therap...
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...
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...
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...
This biography chronicles William Gates' rise as the most powerful player in the computer industry--a man who has revolutionized the software industry with the incredible growth of his Microsoft company, that now threatens gigantic IBM. Reveals Gates' personal quirks and idiosyncrasies which helped fuel his fierce competitive spirit. Interviews Gates' closest friends, associates and former employees, and details IBM's as well as Apples' efforts to topple his Microsoft empire.
Ultimate insider Robert Cringely, who was there at the beginning in Palo Alto's Homebrew Computer Club, steps back to relate the whole story of junkfood genius, nerdy naivete, and pencil-necks triumphant. Offering gory details of fortunes won and lost, this is the story not just of how the personal computer industry really works, but why it works, and how to keep it working.
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...
Commodore 16 Games Book (Retro Reproductions, #10)
by Cameron Duffy and Richard Woolcock
Starting with a brief history of the PowerPC chip's development by the alliance of Apple, IBM and Motorola, this book gives software and hardware overviews of the PowerPC Mac, followed by an introduction to RISC processors. It then describes PowerPC Mac's emulator technology that allows maximum compatability and high-speed emulation for existing Mac applications. The software and hardware are then described in more technical depth. The next part describes the migration paths for users and develo...
I Sing the Body Electronic
Histories of Computing in Eastern Europe (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, #549)
This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the IFIP WG 9.7 International Workshop on the History of Computing, HC 2018, Held at the 24th IFIP World Computer Congress, WCC 2018, in Poznań, Poland, in September 2018. The 16 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 20 submissions. They reflect academic approaches to history along with the expertise of museum and other public history professionals as well as the experience of computingand information scien...
The Second International Symposium on Neuroinformatics and Neurocomputers
The Evolution of Communication and Information Technologies
by Calvin Johnson
A journey through the uncomputable remains of computer history Narrating some lesser known episodes from the deep history of digital machines, Alexander R. Galloway explains the technology that drives the world today, and the fascinating people who brought these machines to life. With an eye to both the computable and the uncomputable, Galloway shows how computation emerges or fails to emerge, how the digital thrives but also atrophies, how networks interconnect while also fray and fall apart....