A Bibliographic Guide To The History Of Computing Computers And The Information Processing Industry

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1990-05-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015018854524

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A Bibliographic Guide to the History of Computing, Computers, and the Information Processing Industry by Anonim Pdf

As millions of people have been exposed to computing through the tremendous growth of microcomputers, there has developed an increasing appreciation of the history of data processing, which dates back many decades before the arrival of the computer. Stretching back to at least the 1860s, such early technologies as adding machines, punch cards, and the office appliance industry are now being recognized for their place in the history of the information processing industry. This work brings together a comprehensive list of sources that offer a general introduction to the literature of the industry. Divided into nine chapters covering topics and historical periods, the bibliography provides an annotated list of published materials describing both the history of the industry and significant items of general interest. Each chapter is introduced with a short review of historically important issues and comments on the literature, and contains contemporary publications as well as more recent material. To give the work a continuing usefulness, ongoing publications, such as computer magazines, are highlighted. Entries are grouped under nearly 100 subheadings, covering such material as contemporary descriptions of hardware and software of the past, seminal technical papers, industry surveys, programming languages, significant individuals and companies, and the role of Japan and microcomputing. All citations are annotated with a brief summary of either the work's contents or its historical importance, while two indexes provide both subject references and author citations. This bibliography will be an important reference source for courses in the history of data processing and business history, and a useful addition to public, college, and university libraries.

Author : James W. Cortada
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 52,9 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 : Greenwood
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1996-01-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780313295423

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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 : Greenwood
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,7 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 : Lawrence J. McCrank
Publisher : Information Today, Inc.
Page : 1216 pages
File Size : 44,5 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 : Martin Campbell-Kelly,William F. Aspray,Jeffrey R. Yost,Honghong Tinn,Gerardo Con Díaz
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000878752

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Computer by Martin Campbell-Kelly,William F. Aspray,Jeffrey R. Yost,Honghong Tinn,Gerardo Con Díaz Pdf

This volume provides a history of the computer which now comes properly up to the ubiquitous age, with new chapters that look at globalization, platformitization and regulation, allowing readers to engage with the more recent takeover by computers in their historical perspective. With the growing ubiquity of computers, the subject is one of interest to many students and this will feature in history of science and technology courses, and world history courses as well as ones specifically on computing. Books on the history of computing tend to be quite technically or business focused, this covers the social and cultural history as well.

Author : Trudi Bellardo Hahn,Michael Keeble Buckland
Publisher : Information Today, Inc.
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 48,6 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

Author : James W. Cortada
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 53,9 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 : Jeffrey R. Yost
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 54,6 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 : James W. Cortada
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 40,8 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 : Roy A. Allan
Publisher : Allan Publishing
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 41,9 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 : Francis Goodall,Terry Gourvish,Steven Tolliday
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 685 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136138201

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International Bibliography of Business History by Francis Goodall,Terry Gourvish,Steven Tolliday Pdf

The field of business history has changed and grown dramatically over the last few years. There is less interest in the traditional `company-centred' approach and more concern about the wider business context. With the growth of multi-national corporations in the 1980s, international and inter-firm comparisons have gained in importance. In addition, there has been a move towards improving links with mainstream economic, financial and social history through techniques and outlook. The International Bibliography of Business History brings all of the strands together and provides the user with a comprehensive guide to the literature in the field. The Bibliography is a unique volume which covers the depth and breadth of research in business history. This exhaustive volume has been compiled by a team of subject specialists from around the world under the editorship of three prestigious business historians.

Author : Henryk Sawoniak
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 1284 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-14
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9783110975062

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1979-1990 by Henryk Sawoniak Pdf

Author : James W. Cortada
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781400872763

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Before the Computer by James W. Cortada Pdf

Before the Computer fully explores the data processing industry in the United States from its nineteenth-century inception down to the period when the computer became its primary tool. As James Cortada describes what was once called the "office appliance industry," he challenges our view of the digital computer as a revolutionary technology. Cortada interprets reliance on computers as a development within an important segment of the American economy that was earlier represented largely by such instruments as typewriters, tabulating machines, adding machines, and calculators. He also describes how many of the practices of the office appliance industry evolved into those of the computer world. Drawing on previously unavailable industry archives, the author adds to our understanding of IBM's early history and offers short corporate histories of firms that include NCR, Burroughs, and Remington Rand. Focusing on the United States but also including comparative material on Europe and Asia, Before the Computer will be a unique source of knowledge about the companies that built office equipment and their enormous impact on economic life. Originally published in 1993. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Martin Campbell-Kelly
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429975004

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Computer by Martin Campbell-Kelly Pdf

Computer: A History of the Information Machine traces the history of the computer and shows how business and government were the first to explore its unlimited, information-processing potential. Old-fashioned entrepreneurship combined with scientific know-how inspired now famous computer engineers to create the technology that became IBM. Wartime needs drove the giant ENIAC, the first fully electronic computer. Later, the PC enabled modes of computing that liberated people from room-sized, mainframe computers. This third edition provides updated analysis on software and computer networking, including new material on the programming profession, social networking, and mobile computing. It expands its focus on the IT industry with fresh discussion on the rise of Google and Facebook as well as how powerful applications are changing the way we work, consume, learn, and socialize. Computer is an insightful look at the pace of technological advancement and the seamless way computers are integrated into the modern world. Through comprehensive history and accessible writing, Computer is perfect for courses on computer history, technology history, and information and society, as well as a range of courses in the fields of computer science, communications, sociology, and management.