A Bibliographic Guide To The History Of Computer Applications 1950 1990

Author : James W. Cortada
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1996-01-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780313298769

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A Bibliographic Guide to the History of Computer Applications, 1950–1990 by James W. Cortada Pdf

Covering over 40 industries and dozens of applications, this is the first bibliography on the history of computer applications. After an introductory essay on the history of applications, the volume is divided into two time periods and includes over 1,600 entries, arranged by application and industry. Users will find sections on such fields as higher education, manufacturing, law enforcement, accounting, space travel, ATMs, artificial intelligence, banking, and trucking. Entries are annotated to describe their content and, when appropriate, their historical significance. Compiled by a historian for other historians and economists, the bibliography draws on the entire spectrum of contemporary and historical literature: books, user's guides, trade journals, industry publications, technology and scholarly magazines and journals, and newsletters, including both American and European sources. As the author of several books on information processing and a member of the IBM Corporation, Cortada is in a good position to pick the historically significant literature for inclusion in this bibliography.

Author : James W. Cortada
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1996-01-19
Category : Computers
ISBN : STANFORD:36105018446828

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A Bibliographic Guide to the History of Computer Applications, 1950–1990 by James W. Cortada Pdf

Covering over 40 industries and dozens of applications, this is the first bibliography on the history of computer applications. After an introductory essay on the history of applications, the volume is divided into two time periods and includes over 1,600 entries, arranged by application and industry. Users will find sections on such fields as higher education, manufacturing, law enforcement, accounting, space travel, ATMs, artificial intelligence, banking, and trucking. Entries are annotated to describe their content and, when appropriate, their historical significance. Compiled by a historian for other historians and economists, the bibliography draws on the entire spectrum of contemporary and historical literature: books, user's guides, trade journals, industry publications, technology and scholarly magazines and journals, and newsletters, including both American and European sources. As the author of several books on information processing and a member of the IBM Corporation, Cortada is in a good position to pick the historically significant literature for inclusion in this bibliography.

Author : Jeffrey R. Yost
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 49,6 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 : Lawrence J. McCrank
Publisher : Information Today, Inc.
Page : 1216 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1573870714

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Historical Information Science by Lawrence J. McCrank Pdf

Historical Information Science is an extensive review and bibliographic essay, backed by almost 6,000 citations, detailing developments in information technology since the advent of personal computers and the convergence of several social science and humanities disciplines in historical computing. Its focus is on the access, preservation, and analysis of historical information (primarily in electronic form) and the relationships between new methodology and instructional media, techniques, and research trends in library special collections, digital libraries, data archives, and museums.

Author : Roy A. Allan
Publisher : Allan Publishing
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Microcomputers
ISBN : 9780968910856

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A Bibliography of the Personal Computer [electronic Resource] : the Books and Periodical Articles by Roy A. Allan Pdf

This eBook bibliography on the history of the personal computer and the industry contains over 280 book notations and over 250 periodical notations. It also contains a reprint of an article by the author entitled "What Was the First Personal Computer?"

Author : James W. Cortada
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 42,5 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 : Ulf Hashagen,Reinhard Keil-Slawik,Arthur L. Norberg
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783662049549

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History of Computing: Software Issues by Ulf Hashagen,Reinhard Keil-Slawik,Arthur L. Norberg Pdf

Author : Kim H. Veltman
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 55,8 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 : Bonnie A. Osif
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2006-08-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780203966167

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Using the Engineering Literature by Bonnie A. Osif Pdf

The field of engineering is becoming increasingly interdisciplinary, and there is an ever-growing need for engineers to investigate engineering and scientific resources outside their own area of expertise. However, studies have shown that quality information-finding skills often tend to be lacking in the engineering profession. Using the Engineerin

Author : Bonnie A. Osif
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-09
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781439850022

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Using the Engineering Literature, Second Edition by Bonnie A. Osif Pdf

With the encroachment of the Internet into nearly all aspects of work and life, it seems as though information is everywhere. However, there is information and then there is correct, appropriate, and timely information. While we might love being able to turn to Wikipedia® for encyclopedia-like information or search Google® for the thousands of links on a topic, engineers need the best information, information that is evaluated, up-to-date, and complete. Accurate, vetted information is necessary when building new skyscrapers or developing new prosthetics for returning military veterans While the award-winning first edition of Using the Engineering Literature used a roadmap analogy, we now need a three-dimensional analysis reflecting the complex and dynamic nature of research in the information age. Using the Engineering Literature, Second Edition provides a guide to the wide range of resources available in all fields of engineering. This second edition has been thoroughly revised and features new sections on nanotechnology as well as green engineering. The information age has greatly impacted the way engineers find information. Engineers have an effect, directly and indirectly, on almost all aspects of our lives, and it is vital that they find the right information at the right time to create better products and processes. Comprehensive and up to date, with expert chapter authors, this book fills a gap in the literature, providing critical information in a user-friendly format.

Author : James W. Cortada
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1996-01-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780313388019

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Second Bibliographic Guide to the History of Computing, Computers, and the Information Processing Industry by James W. Cortada Pdf

Complementing the author's 1990 bibliography, A Bibliographic Guide to the History of Computing, Computers, and the Information Processing Industry, this bibliography provides 2,500 new citations, covering all significant literature published since the late 1980s. It includes all aspects of the subject—biographies, company histories, industry studies, product descriptions, sociological studies, industry directories, and traditional monographic histories—and covers all periods from the beginnings to the personal computer. New to this volume is a chapter on the management of information processing operations, useful to both historians and managers of information technology. Together with the earlier bibliography, this work provides the most comprehensive bibliographic guide to the history of computers, computing, and the information processing industry. The organization of the book follows that of the earlier work, with the addition of the new chapter on the management of information processing. All entries are new to this volume. Titles are annotated, and each chapter begins with a short introduction. A full table of contents and author and subject indexes enhance accessibility to the material.

Author : James W. Cortada
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780195165883

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The Digital Hand by James W. Cortada Pdf

This text provides a historical perspective on how some of the most important American industries used computing over the past half century, describing their experience, their best practices, and the role of industries and technologies in changing the nature of American work.

Author : Will Mari
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351256223

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A Short History of Disruptive Journalism Technologies by Will Mari Pdf

A Short History of Disruptive Journalism Technologies provides a swift analysis of the computerization of the newsroom, from the mid-1960s through to the early 1990s. It focuses on how word processing and a number of related affordances, including mobile-reporting tools, impacted the daily work routines of American news workers. The narrative opens with the development of mainframes and their attendant use as databases in large, daily newspapers, It moves on to the "minicomputer" era and explores initial news-worker experiences with computers for editing and publication. Following this, the book examines the microprocessor era, and the rise of "smart" terminals, "microcomputers," and off-the-shelf hardware/software, along with the increasing use of computers in smaller news organizations. Mari then turns to the use of pre-internet networks, wire-services and bulletin boards deployed for user interaction. He looks at the integration of decentralized computer networks in newsrooms, with a mix of content-management systems and PCs, and the increasing use of pagers and cellphones for news-gathering, including the shift from "portable" to mobile conceptualizations for these technologies. A Short History of Disruptive Journalism Technologies is an illuminating survey for students and instructors of journalism studies. It represents an important acknowledgement of the impact of pre-internet technological disruptions which led to the even more disruptive internet- and related computing technologies in the latter 1990s and through the present.

Author : Alfred D. Chandler Jr.,James W. Cortada
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2000-08-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780190284435

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A Nation Transformed by Information by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.,James W. Cortada Pdf

This book makes the startling case that North Americans were getting on the "information highway" as early as the 1700's, and have been using it as a critical building block of their social, economic, and political world ever since. By the time of the founding of the United States, there was a postal system and roads for the distribution of mail copyright laws to protect intellectual property, and newspapers, books, and broadsides to bring information to a populace that was building a nation on the basis of an informed electorate. In the 19th century, Americans developed the telegraph, telephone, and motion pictures, inventions that further expanded the reach of information. In the 20th century they added television, computers, and the Internet, ultimately connecting themselves to a whole world of information. From the beginning North Americans were willing to invest in the infrastructure to make such connectivity possible. This book explores what the deployment of these technologies says about American society. The editors assembled a group of contributors who are experts in their particular fields and worked with them to create a book that is fully integrated and cross-referenced.

Author : Trudi Bellardo Hahn,Michael Keeble Buckland
Publisher : Information Today, Inc.
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1573870625

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Historical Studies in Information Science by Trudi Bellardo Hahn,Michael Keeble Buckland Pdf

The 25 contributions to this volume, largely reprinted from recent special issues of three information science journals devoted to historical topics, address an array of topics including Paul Otlet and his successors; techniques, tools, and systems; organizations and individuals; theoretical issues; and literature. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR