A Bibliographic Guide To Resources In Scientific Computing 1945 1975

Author : Jeffrey R. Yost
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2002-10-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0313316813

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A Bibliographic Guide to Resources in Scientific Computing, 1945-1975 by Jeffrey R. Yost Pdf

An essential contribution to the study of the history of computers, this work identifies the computer's impact on the physical, biological, cognitive, and medical sciences. References fundamental to the understudied area of the history of scientific computing also document the significant role of the sciences in helping to shape the development of computer technology. More broadly, the many resources on scientific computing help demonstrate how the computer was the most significant scientific instrument of the 20th century. The only guide of its kind covering the use and impact of computers on the the physical, biological, medical, and cognitive sciences, it contains more than 1,000 annotated citations to carefully selected secondary and primary resources. Historians of technology and science will find this a very useful resource. Computer scientists, physicians, biologists, chemists, and geologists will also benefit from this extensive bibliography on the history of computer applications and the sciences.

Author : Jeffrey R. Yost
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2002-10-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780313077463

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A Bibliographic Guide to Resources in Scientific Computing, 1945-1975 by Jeffrey R. Yost Pdf

An essential contribution to the study of the history of computers, this work identifies the computer's impact on the physical, biological, cognitive, and medical sciences. References fundamental to the understudied area of the history of scientific computing also document the significant role of the sciences in helping to shape the development of computer technology. More broadly, the many resources on scientific computing help demonstrate how the computer was the most significant scientific instrument of the 20th century. The only guide of its kind covering the use and impact of computers on the the physical, biological, medical, and cognitive sciences, it contains more than 1,000 annotated citations to carefully selected secondary and primary resources. Historians of technology and science will find this a very useful resource. Computer scientists, physicians, biologists, chemists, and geologists will also benefit from this extensive bibliography on the history of computer applications and the sciences.

Author : James W. Cortada
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780190290177

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The Digital Hand, Vol 3 by James W. Cortada Pdf

In The third volume of The Digital Hand, James W. Cortada completes his sweeping survey of the effect of computers on American industry, turning finally to the public sector, and examining how computers have fundamentally changed the nature of work in government and education. This book goes far beyond generalizations about the Information Age to the specifics of how industries have functioned, now function, and will function in the years to come. Cortada combines detailed analysis with narrative history to provide a broad overview of computings and telecommunications role in the entire public sector, including federal, state, and local governments, and in K-12 and higher education. Beginning in 1950, when commercial applications of digital technology began to appear, Cortada examines the unique ways different public sector industries adopted new technologies, showcasing the manner in which their innovative applications influenced other industries, as well as the U.S. economy as a whole. He builds on the surveys presented in the first volume of the series, which examined sixteen manufacturing, process, transportation, wholesale and retail industries, and the second volume, which examined over a dozen financial, telecommunications, media, and entertainment industries. With this third volume, The Digital Hand trilogy is complete, and forms the most comprehensive and rigorously researched history of computing in business since 1950, providing a detailed picture of what the infrastructure of the Information Age really looks like and how we got there. Managers, historians, economists, and those working in the public sector will appreciate Cortada's analysis of digital technology's many roles and future possibilities.

Author : James W. Cortada
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538148556

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Building Blocks of Society by James W. Cortada Pdf

The history of information is a rapidly emerging new subfield of history. Historians are identifying the issues they need to examine, crafting novel research agendas, and locating research materials relevant to their work. Like the larger world around them, historians are discovering what it means to live and work in a world that increasingly sees itself as an information society. Long a discussion point among sociologists, economists, political leaders, and media experts, historians are integrating their methods and research into the larger conversation. The purpose of this book is to advocate for a way to look at the history of information and to history as a whole that is simultaneously relevant to observers in other disciplines and familiar to historians of business, economics, sociology and technology. The author presents that advocacy in two ways: with theoretical and historiographical discussions of what information ecosystems and infrastructures are and their value for this kind of research, second, through a range of case studies applying those concepts. The wide range of case studies is purposeful in demonstrating the applicability of the ideas presented in the early methodological chapters. Themes mentioned in each of the early chapters are consistently applied in all subsequent chapters. This book breaks from the more traditional historiography of book history, sociological and philosophical discussions about knowledge and society. The first two chapters focus on the craft of the historian in this new field, better known as historiography and methods. Subsequent chapters are case studies, showing what results when a historian writes about ecosystems and infrastructures, moving our discussion from theory to practice. The book is an important and substantive contribution to this new subfield, an essential primer, as well as a major statement for all historians on how next to evolve their craft.

Author : Kim H. Veltman
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781552381540

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Understanding New Media by Kim H. Veltman Pdf

This book outlines the development currently underway in the technology of new media and looks further to examine the unforeseen effects of this phenomenon on our culture, our philosophies, and our spiritual outlook.

Author : Peter A. Freeman,W. Richards Adrion,William Aspray
Publisher : Morgan & Claypool
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-21
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781450372749

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Computing and the National Science Foundation, 1950-2016 by Peter A. Freeman,W. Richards Adrion,William Aspray Pdf

This organizational history relates the role of the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the development of modern computing. Drawing upon new and existing oral histories, extensive use of NSF documents, and the experience of two of the authors as senior managers, this book describes how NSF’s programmatic activities originated and evolved to become the primary source of funding for fundamental research in computing and information technologies. The book traces how NSF's support has provided facilities and education for computing usage by all scientific disciplines, aided in institution and professional community building, supported fundamental research in computer science and allied disciplines, and led the efforts to broaden participation in computing by all segments of society. Today, the research and infrastructure facilitated by NSF computing programs are significant economic drivers of American society and industry. For example, NSF supported work that led to the first widely-used web browser, Netscape; sponsored the creation of algorithms at the core of the Google search engine; facilitated the growth of the public Internet; and funded research on the scientific basis for countless other applications and technologies. NSF has advanced the development of human capital and ideas for future advances in computing and its applications. This account is the first comprehensive coverage of NSF's role in the extraordinary growth and expansion of modern computing and its use. It will appeal to historians of computing, policy makers and leaders in government and academia, and individuals interested in the history and development of computing and the NSF.

Author : Herbert Bruderer
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 2072 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-04
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783030409746

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Milestones in Analog and Digital Computing by Herbert Bruderer Pdf

This Third Edition is the first English-language edition of the award-winning Meilensteine der Rechentechnik; illustrated in full color throughout in two volumes. The Third Edition is devoted to both analog and digital computing devices, as well as the world's most magnificient historical automatons and select scientific instruments (employed in astronomy, surveying, time measurement, etc.). It also features detailed instructions for analog and digital mechanical calculating machines and instruments, and is the only such historical book with comprehensive technical glossaries of terms not found in print or in online dictionaries. The book also includes a very extensive bibliography based on the literature of numerous countries around the world. Meticulously researched, the author conducted a worldwide survey of science, technology and art museums with their main holdings of analog and digital calculating and computing machines and devices, historical automatons and selected scientific instruments in order to describe a broad range of masterful technical achievements. Also covering the history of mathematics and computer science, this work documents the cultural heritage of technology as well.

Author : Michael Knee
Publisher : Libraries Unlimited
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UCSC:32106018069002

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Computer Science and Computing by Michael Knee Pdf

Publishers description: Michael Knee offers a selective guide to the major resources and tools central to the computer industry. A discussion of three commonly used subject classification systems precedes an annotated bibliography of over 500 items.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 964 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015066043129

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American Book Publishing Record by Anonim Pdf

Author : Arthur James Wells
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1264 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Bibliography, National
ISBN : UOM:39015057956578

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The British National Bibliography by Arthur James Wells Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 782 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Academic libraries
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114613222

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Choice by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1080 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Bibliographical literature
ISBN : UOM:39015079882307

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Bibliographic Index by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1322 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Books
ISBN : UOM:39015058001036

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Book Review Index by Anonim Pdf

Every 3rd issue is a quarterly cumulation.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1984-12
Category : Education
ISBN : MINN:30000010530206

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Resources in education by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 984 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Learning and scholarship
ISBN : UOM:39015062060606

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Internationale Bibliographie der Rezensionen wissenschaftlicher Literatur by Anonim Pdf