Computing History

A History of Modern Computing (History of Computing)

"Paul Ceruzzi explores the mostly unmapped history of computing since 1945. Readers seeking to understand a half century of turbulent and complex history will find him an informed and thoughtful

• Release Date: 1998-10-12
• Category: Culture
• Tags: History Modern Computing History Computing

The First Computers--History and Architectures (History of Computing)

This history of computing focuses not on chronology (what came first and who deserves credit for it) but on the actual architectures of the first machines that made electronic computing a practical

• Release Date: 2000-07-07
• Category: History
• Tags: The First Computers History Architectures History Computing

The Government Machine: A Revolutionary History of the Computer (History of Computing)

argues that today's general purpose computer is the apotheosis of the civil servant. Over the course of two centuries, government has become the major repository and user of information; the Civil

• Release Date: 2003-10-01
• Category: Miscellaneous
• Tags: The Government Machine Revolutionary History the Computer History Computing

Computing: A Concise History

The history of computing could be told as the story of hardware and software, or the story of the Internet, or the story of "smart" hand-held devices, with subplots involving IBM, Microsoft, Apple

• Release Date: 2012-06-15
• Category: Computer Science
• Tags: Computing Concise History

A History of Modern Computing

-cultural computer hackers. But unlike some popular books about computing history, this one refuses to acknowledge any particular individual, group, or institution as its protagonist. The tale it tells is complex

• Release Date: 2003-05-01
• Category: Computing History
• Tags: History Modern Computing

Recoding Gender: Women's Changing Participation in Computing (History of Computing)

was considered woman's work (perhaps in contrast to the more manly task of building the computers themselves). In Recoding Gender, Janet Abbate explores the untold history of women in computer science

• Release Date: 2012-10-05
• Category: Computer Science
• Tags: Recoding Gender Women's Changing Participation Computing History Computing

John von Neumann and the Origins of Modern Computing (History of Computing)

In the mid 1940s, John von Neumann revolutionized the nascent field of computing by showing that program instructions could be stored in a computer's memory instead of on external panels

• Release Date: 1990-12-07
• Category: Computer Science
• Tags: John von Neumann the Origins Modern Computing History Computing

A Brief History of Computing

The history of computing has its origins at the outset of civilization. As towns and communities evolved there was a need for increasingly sophisticated calculations. This book traces

• Release Date: 2008-02-01
• Category: Miscellaneous
• Tags: Brief History Computing

Ubiquitous Computing Fundamentals

more about this evolving field.

-From the Foreword, Professor Gregory D. Abowd, Georgia Institute of Technology

First introduced two decades ago, the term ubiquitous computing is now

• Release Date: 2009-09-21
• Category: Computing History
• Tags: Ubiquitous Computing Fundamentals