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Author : B. Randell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-21
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642618123
Author : B Randell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1973-12-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3642961460
Author : Brian Randell
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Calculators
ISBN : UCAL:B4171680
Author : Brian Randell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Computers
ISBN : PSU:000022211187
Author : B. Randell
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642961458
My interest in the history of digital computers became an active one when I had the fortune to come across the almost entirely forgotten work of PERCY LUDGATE, who designed a mechanical program-controlled computer in Ireland in the early I ':ICC's. I undertook an investigation of his life and work, during which I began to realise that a large number of early developments, which we can now see as culminating in the modern digital computer, had been most undeservedly forgotten. Hopefully, historians of science, some of whom are now taking up the subject of the development of the computer and accumulating valuable data, particularly about the more recent events from the people concerned, will before too long provide us with comprehensive analytical accounts of the invention of the computer. The present book merely aims to bring together some of the more important and interesting written source material for such a history of computers. (Where necessary, papers have been translated into English, but every attempt has been made to retain the flavour of the original, and to avoid possibly misleading use of modern computing terminology.
Author : Brian Randell
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1982-07
Category : Computers
ISBN : 3540113193
Author : Gerard O'Regan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-21
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319331386
Tracing the story of computing from Babylonian counting boards to smartphones, this inspiring textbook provides a concise overview of the key events in the history of computing, together with discussion exercises to stimulate deeper investigation into this fascinating area. Features: provides chapter introductions, summaries, key topics, and review questions; includes an introduction to analogue and digital computers, and to the foundations of computing; examines the contributions of ancient civilisations to the field of computing; covers the first digital computers, and the earliest commercial computers, mainframes and minicomputers; describes the early development of the integrated circuit and the microprocessor; reviews the emergence of home computers; discusses the creation of the Internet, the invention of the smartphone, and the rise of social media; presents a short history of telecommunications, programming languages, operating systems, software engineering, artificial intelligence, and databases.
Author : Thomas Haigh
Publisher : Springer
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783030021528
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 : Brian Randell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic digital computers
ISBN : 0902383264
Author : Paul E. Ceruzzi
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2003-04-08
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0262532034
From the first digital computer to the dot-com crash—a story of individuals, institutions, and the forces that led to a series of dramatic transformations. This engaging history covers modern computing from the development of the first electronic digital computer through the dot-com crash. The author concentrates on five key moments of transition: the transformation of the computer in the late 1940s from a specialized scientific instrument to a commercial product; the emergence of small systems in the late 1960s; the beginning of personal computing in the 1970s; the spread of networking after 1985; and, in a chapter written for this edition, the period 1995-2001. The new material focuses on the Microsoft antitrust suit, the rise and fall of the dot-coms, and the advent of open source software, particularly Linux. Within the chronological narrative, the book traces several overlapping threads: the evolution of the computer's internal design; the effect of economic trends and the Cold War; the long-term role of IBM as a player and as a target for upstart entrepreneurs; the growth of software from a hidden element to a major character in the story of computing; and the recurring issue of the place of information and computing in a democratic society. The focus is on the United States (though Europe and Japan enter the story at crucial points), on computing per se rather than on applications such as artificial intelligence, and on systems that were sold commercially and installed in quantities.
Author : George Dyson
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780375422775
Documents the innovations of a group of eccentric geniuses who developed computer code in the mid-20th century as part of mathematician Alan Turin's theoretical universal machine idea, exploring how their ideas led to such developments as digital television, modern genetics and the hydrogen bomb.
Author : Maurice Vincent Wilkes,David J. Wheeler,Stanley Gill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Computers
ISBN : UOM:39015010876368
Author : Herbert Bruderer
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 2072 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-04
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783030409746
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 : Joy Lisi Rankin
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-22
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780674988514
Does Silicon Valley deserve all the credit for digital creativity and social media? Joy Rankin questions this triumphalism by revisiting a pre-PC time when schools were not the last stop for mature consumer technologies but flourishing sites of innovative collaboration—when users taught computers and visionaries dreamed of networked access for all.
Author : Gerard O'Regan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-05
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781447123590
This lively and fascinating text traces the key developments in computation – from 3000 B.C. to the present day – in an easy-to-follow and concise manner. Topics and features: ideal for self-study, offering many pedagogical features such as chapter-opening key topics, chapter introductions and summaries, exercises, and a glossary; presents detailed information on major figures in computing, such as Boole, Babbage, Shannon, Turing, Zuse and Von Neumann; reviews the history of software engineering and of programming languages, including syntax and semantics; discusses the progress of artificial intelligence, with extension to such key disciplines as philosophy, psychology, linguistics, neural networks and cybernetics; examines the impact on society of the introduction of the personal computer, the World Wide Web, and the development of mobile phone technology; follows the evolution of a number of major technology companies, including IBM, Microsoft and Apple.
