[PDF] Landmarks In Digital Computing eBook

Author : Peggy Aldrich Kidwell
Publisher : Smithsonian Books (DC)
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 41,6 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Computers
ISBN :

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Offering a fascinating visual record of the milestones in digital computing, this illustrated volume discusses the social and economic impact of each of the 40-plus significant benchmarks highlighted, from the ancient abacus to the SUN workstation. (Computers/General)

Author : Maurice V. Wilkes
Publisher : Morgan Kaufmann
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 37,59 MB
Release : 1995-01-15
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781558603172

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Charles babbage-the great uncle of computing - The beginnings of electronic computers - The development of the stored program computer - Personal computers and workstations - The RISC movement in processor architecture - Achievements and challenges in VLSI processor design - It's all Software now! - The Lure of parallelism and its problems - Software and the programmer - From FORTRAN and ALGOL to object-oriented languages - Operating systems in a changing world - Artificial intelligence as the year 2000 approaches - Software and industrial research - Computer networks and the bandwidth famine - Email and its competitors - Light amplifiers and solitons - Computer security in the business world-time sharing systems - Computer security in the business world-distributed systems.

Author : Thomas Haigh
Publisher : Springer
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 37,22 MB
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : Computers
ISBN : 3030021521

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Changes in the present challenge us to reinterpret the past, but historians have not yet come to grips with the convergence of computing, media, and communications technology. Today these things are inextricably intertwined, in technologies such as the smartphone and internet, in convergent industries, and in social practices. Yet they remain three distinct historical subfields, tilled by different groups of scholars using different tools. We often call this conglomeration “the digital,” recognizing its deep connection to the technology of digital computing. Unfortunately, interdisciplinary studies of digital practices, digital methods, or digital humanities have rarely been informed by deep engagement with the history of computing.Contributors to this volume have come together to reexamine an apparently familiar era in the history of computing through new lenses, exploring early digital computing and engineering practice as digital phenomena rather than as engines of mathematics and logic. Most focus on the period 1945 to 1960, the era in which the first electronic digital computers were created and the computer industry began to develop. Because digitality is first and foremost a way of reading objects and encoding information within them, we are foregrounding topics that have until now been viewed as peripheral in the history of computing: betting odds calculators, card file systems, program and data storage, programmable calculators, and digital circuit design practices. Reconceptualizing the “history of computing” as study of the “early digital” decenters the stored program computer, repositioning it as one of many digital technologies.

Author : Nicholas Metropolis
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 43,40 MB
Release : 1980-09-28
Category : Business & Economics
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The human side; The languages; The machines; The places.

Author : Joy Lisi Rankin
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,41 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Computer networks
ISBN : 9780674988521

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"Does Silicon Valley deserve the credit it gets for digital creativity and social media? Joy Lisi Rankin questions this triumphalism by revisiting a pre-PC world where schools were not the last stop for mature consumer technologies but flourishing sites of innovative collaboration. A People's History of Computing in the United States reveals a forgotten time when students taught computers, rather than the other way around, and visionaries dreamed of networked access for all. The invention of the personal computer undoubtedly 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 social computing. Their networks were centered in New Hampshire, Minnesota, and Illinois, but they connected far-flung users. Rankin draws on detailed records to explore how users exchanged messages, programmed music and poems, fostered communities, and developed computer games, including The Oregon Trail. No less than the male inventors, garage hobbyists, and eccentric billionaires of Palo Alto, these unsung pioneers helped shape our digital world. By imagining computing as an interactive commons, the early denizens of the digital realm seeded today's debate about whether the internet should be a public utility and laid the groundwork for national and international debates over net neutrality. Rankin offers a radical precedent for a more democratic digital culture, and new models for the next generation of activists, educators, coders, and makers."--

Author : Zenon W. Pylyshyn
Publisher : Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 38,74 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Computers
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This text is designed to introduce students to the historical, intellectual and social context of computers and their development.

Author : Michael Roy Williams
Publisher : Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 38,89 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Business & Economics
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This second edition of the popular reference and textbook outlines the historical developments in computing technology. The book describes historical aspects of calculation and concentrates on the physical devices used to aid people in their attempts at automating the arithmetic process. A History of Computing Technology highlights the major advances in arithmetic from the beginning of counting, through the three most important developments in the subject: the invention of the zero, logarithms, and the electronic computer. It provides you with an understanding of how these ideas developed and why the latest tools are in their current forms. In addition, it tells many of the interesting stories about both the machines and the scientists who produced them. It focuses on the extraordinary accomplishments of those computer pioneers whose work will stand as proof of their genius and hard work.