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Leaders in Computingby BCS The Chartered Institute for IT; Donald Knuth; Grady Booch; Linus Torvalds; Steve Wozniak; Vint Cerf; Karen Sp�rck Jones; Tim Berners-Lee; Jimmy Wales; Stephanie Shirley
British Informatics Society Limited 2011; US$ 2.99
This collection of interviews provides a fascinating insight into the thoughts and ideas of influential figures from the world of IT and computing, such as Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Donald Knuth, Linus Torvalds, Jimmy Wales and Steve Wozniak. It gives an excellent overview of important developments in this diverse field over recent years. more...
What the Dormouse Saidby John Markoff
Penguin Group Inc. 2005; US$ 12.99
Most histories of the personal computer industry focus on technology or business. John Markoff’s landmark book is about the culture and consciousness behind the first PCs—the culture being counter– and the consciousness expanded, sometimes chemically. It’s a brilliant evocation of Stanford, California, in the 1960s and ’70s, where a group of visionaries set out to turn computers into a means for freeing minds and information. In these pages one encounters Ken Kesey and the phone hacker Cap’n Crunch, est and LSD, The Whole Earth Catalog and the Homebrew Computer Lab. What the Dormouse Said is a poignant, funny, and inspiring book by one of the smartest technology writers around. more...
Der Computer - Mein Lebenswerk (German Edition)by Konrad Zuse; F.L. Bauer; H. Zemanek
Springer 2007; US$ 49.95
Konrad Zuse baute die erste vollautomatische, programmgesteuerte und frei programmierte, in bin�rer Gleitpunktrechnung arbeitende Rechenanlage. Sie war 1941 betriebsf�hig. Mit anderen Worten: Konrad Zuse baute den ersten funktionsf�higen Computer. In diesem Buch erz�hlt er die Geschichte seines Lebens, das wie kaum ein anderes mit der Geschichte der bedeutendsten technischen Entwicklung seines Jahrhunderts verbunden ist - einer Entwicklung, die mit der "Abneigung" des Berliner Bauingenieurstudenten Zuse gegen die statischen Rechnungen begonnen hat... "Von der ersten bis zur letzten Seite ist diese Autobiographie eine faszinierende Lekt�re, weil aus jeder Zeile das pers�nliche Erleben des Autors spricht. Diese Unmittelbarkeit macht Buch und... more...
Historische Notizen zur Informatik (German Edition)by Friedrich L. Bauer
Springer 2008; US$ 59.95
Der Autor entwickelt unterhaltsam, gleichzeitig mit mathematischer Strenge, zahlreiche Facetten aus der Wissenschaftsgeschichte, die mit den Anf�ngen der Informatik in Zusammenhang stehen. Die Beitr�ge sind �ber viele Jahre im Informatik Spektrum erschienen und werden nun erstmals in einem Buch zusammengefasst. Die Informatik selbst ist eine junge Wissenschaft, deren Wurzeln tief in die Vergangenheit zur�ckreichen. Der Autor zeigt dies anhand vieler anregender historischer Notizen. more...
Jacquard's Webby James Essinger
Oxford University Press, UK 2007; US$ 17.00
Jacquard's Web tells one of the greatest untold stories of science: how a hand loom invented in Napoleonic France led to the birth of the modern computer age. James Essinger, a master storyteller, traces the 200-year evolution of Jacquard's idea from the studios of 18th century weavers, through the Industrial Revolution to the development of hi-tech computers and the information age today. - ;Jacquard's Web is the story of some of the most ingenious inventors the world has ever known, a fascinating account of how a hand-loom invented in Napoleonic France led to the development of the modern information age. James Essinger, a master story-teller, shows through a series of remarkable and meticulously researched historical connections... more...
Origins and Foundations of Computingby Friedrich L. Bauer
Springer 2010; US$ 44.95
The book examines how intellectual developments in logic and mathematics were gradually matched by technical solutions in first mechanics and then electronics, and how the resulting machines found application in engineering, science and business.The author was among the pioneers of computing science, and he offers a personal and distinctive view of the key developments and personalities in this engaging history. The book will be of interest to computer scientists�and electronics engineers, and to readers who are fascinated�by�the history of technology. more...
Second Bibliographic Guide to the History of Computing, Computers, and the Information Processing Industryby James W. Cortada
ABC-CLIO 1996; US$ 138.95
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 subjectÑbiographies, company histories, industry studies, product descriptions, sociological studies, industry directories, and traditional monographic historiesÑand 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... more...
Digital Revolutionariesby Steve Lohr
Roaring Brook Press 2009; US$ 9.99
In the beginning, there was the computer. And it was big. As big as a room. Sometimes as big as a house. Early computers required teams of white-coated scientists to keep them running, yet one of those giant behemoths could not match the computing power of a single microchip today. From the first massive computers to today's nanotechnology, DIGITAL REVOLUTIONARIES offers a guided tour of the history of computers and a celebration of the human ingenuity that led the world from ENIAC to iMAC. more...
Alan Turing's Automatic Computing Engineby B. Jack Copeland
OUP Oxford 2005; US$ 182.50
The mathematical genius Alan Turing (1912-1954) was one of the greatest scientists and thinkers of the 20th century. Now well known for his crucial wartime role in breaking the ENIGMA code, he was the first to conceive of the fundamental principle of the modern computer-the idea of controlling a computing machine's operations by means of a program of coded instructions, stored in the machine's 'memory'. In 1945 Turing drew up his revolutionary design for an electronic computingmachine-his Automatic Computing Engine ('ACE'). A pilot model of the ACE ran its first program in 1950 and the production version, the 'DEUCE', went on to become a cornerstone of the fledgling British computer industry. The first 'personal'... more...
Computerby Martin Campbell-kelly; William Aspray
Westview Press 2009; US$ 43.00
"Computer: A History of the Information Machine, Second Edition traces the story of the computer, and shows how business and government were the first to explore its unlimited, information-processing" more...