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Computers; History

  • Alan Turing's Automatic Computing Engineby B. Jack Copeland

    OUP Oxford 2005; US$ 27.99

    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... more...

  • Computerby Martin Campbell-Kelly; William Aspray

    Westview Press 2009; US$ 45.00

    "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...

  • Der Computer - Mein Lebenswerk (German Edition)by Konrad Zuse; F.L. Bauer; H. Zemanek

    Springer 2007; US$ 39.99

    Konrad Zuse baute die erste vollautomatische, programmgesteuerte und frei programmierte, in binärer Gleitpunktrechnung arbeitende Rechenanlage. Sie war 1941 betriebsfähig. Mit anderen Worten: Konrad Zuse baute den ersten funktionsfähigen Computer. In diesem Buch erzählt er die Geschichte seines Lebens, das wie kaum ein anderes mit der Geschichte der... more...

  • Dice Worldby Brian Clegg

    Icon Books 2013; US$ 11.65

    For centuries scientists believed that the universe was a vast machine ? with enough detail, you could predict exactly what would happen. Admittedly real life wasn?t like that. But only, they argued, because we didn?t have enough data to be certain. Then the cracks began to appear. It proved impossible to predict exactly how three planets orbiting... more...

  • Digital Revolutionariesby Steve Lohr

    Roaring Brook Press 2009; US$ 14.99

    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... more...

  • Historische Notizen zur Informatik (German Edition)by Friedrich L. Bauer

    Springer 2008; US$ 15.99

    Der Autor entwickelt unterhaltsam, gleichzeitig mit mathematischer Strenge, zahlreiche Facetten aus der Wissenschaftsgeschichte, die mit den Anfängen der Informatik in Zusammenhang stehen. Die Beiträge sind über viele Jahre im Informatik Spektrum erschienen und werden nun erstmals in einem Buch zusammengefasst. Die Informatik selbst ist eine junge... more...

  • Informatikby Johann-Christoph Freytag; Wolfgang Reisig

    Springer 2006; US$ 23.99

    Die Informatik ist eine junge Wissenschaft, die sich durch einen rasanten technischen Fortschritt auszeichnet. Dadurch wird hdufig ]bersehen, dass aktuelle Themen eine teilweise lange Entwicklungsgeschichte durchlaufen haben. Informatikprofessoren der Humboldt-Universitdt zu Berlin haben zu einigen ihrer aktuellen Arbeitsgebiete die Entwicklungslinien... more...

  • Jacquard's Webby James Essinger

    Oxford University Press, UK 2007; US$ 26.99

    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... more...