Book Description
A complete and accessible history of computer science, beginning with Charles Babbage in 1819.
Author : Subrata Dasgupta
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 39,72 MB
Release : 2014-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0199309418
A complete and accessible history of computer science, beginning with Charles Babbage in 1819.
Author : Erwin Tomash
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,61 MB
Release : 1987-12-04
Category :
ISBN : 9780262515252
Written but never published during his lifetime, this memoir of the founding father of computing is an indispensable primary source of information about Babbage's personal character and work. It brings to light his astonishingly wide range of interests, from mathematics to political economy and social reform, and dispels the myth of an "irascible" and "eccentric" personality, helping to clarify Babbage's position in the history of science.Buxton's memoir was written between 1872 and 1880 and is volume 13 in the Charles Babbage Institute Reprint Series for the History of Computing.
Author : Doron Swade
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 49,3 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
"Drawing on previously unused archival material, The Difference Engine is a tale of both Babbage's nineteenth-century quest to build a calculating engine and its twentieth-century sequel. For in 1991, Babbage's vision was finally realized, at least in part, by the completion at the Science Museum in London of the first full-sized Babbage engine, finished in time for the 200th anniversary of Babbage's birth. The two quests are mutually illuminating and are recounted here by the then Curator of Computing, Doron Swade - one of the main protagonists of the successful resumption of Babbage's extraordinary work."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Subrata Dasgupta
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 34,93 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0190843861
Between the genesis of computer science in the 1960s and the advent of the World Wide Web around 1990, computer science evolved in significant ways. The author has termed this period the "second age of computer science." This book describes its evolution in the form of several interconnected parallel histories.
Author : Charles Babbage
Publisher :
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 47,78 MB
Release : 1832
Category : Machinery
ISBN :
Author : William Aspray
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 40,51 MB
Release : 2024-05-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 153818382X
This is not a book about the history of computing or the history of information. Instead, it is a meta-historical book about the research and writing of these types of history. The formal presentation of historical research in the form of a publication often hides the process by which the topic was selected, boundaries were drawn, evidence was selected, analytic approach was chosen and applied, results were presented, how this work fits into a larger body of scholarship, the implicit goals and biases of the author, and many other similar issues. This process of learning about the various ways to carry out computer history or information history can be enriched by this collection of reflective essays by experienced scholars, discussing the craft that they practice. This is a book that concerns both computer history and information history. The first scholarship in computer history by professionally trained scholars began to appear in the 1970s, so we are approaching a half century of research and publication in this area. The field has generated numerous pieces of exemplary scholarship from various perspectives such as intellectual history of individual technologies, business histories of firms, economic histories of market sectors, externalist histories of funding and professionalization, and so on. However, the field continues to evolve, especially as computing and communication technologies have drawn together in the form of the Internet and social media; and with them a new set of scholars is participating, drawn not only from the history of science and technology, but also from the communication and media studies fields. Powerful theories, approaches, and frameworks are being increasingly drawn more widely from both the humanities and the social sciences to inform the practice of computer history. The scholars in this volume look at what’s happened, what’s happening now, and where historical scholarship in these disciplines is headed.
Author : James Essinger
Publisher : Melville House
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 44,83 MB
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1612194095
“[Ada Lovelace], like Steve Jobs, stands at the intersection of arts and technology."—Walter Isaacson, author of The Innovators Over 150 years after her death, a widely-used scientific computer program was named “Ada,” after Ada Lovelace, the only legitimate daughter of the eighteenth century’s version of a rock star, Lord Byron. Why? Because, after computer pioneers such as Alan Turing began to rediscover her, it slowly became apparent that she had been a key but overlooked figure in the invention of the computer. In Ada Lovelace, James Essinger makes the case that the computer age could have started two centuries ago if Lovelace’s contemporaries had recognized her research and fully grasped its implications. It’s a remarkable tale, starting with the outrageous behavior of her father, which made Ada instantly famous upon birth. Ada would go on to overcome numerous obstacles to obtain a level of education typically forbidden to women of her day. She would eventually join forces with Charles Babbage, generally credited with inventing the computer, although as Essinger makes clear, Babbage couldn’t have done it without Lovelace. Indeed, Lovelace wrote what is today considered the world’s first computer program—despite opposition that the principles of science were “beyond the strength of a woman’s physical power of application.” Based on ten years of research and filled with fascinating characters and observations of the period, not to mention numerous illustrations, Essinger tells Ada’s fascinating story in unprecedented detail to absorbing and inspiring effect.
Author : James Essinger
Publisher : Severn House Paperbacks
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,51 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Calculators
ISBN : 9781908096661
Ada Lovelace was the only legitimate child of Lord Byron, the dangerous romantice poet whose name became a byword for scandal. Over the past decades, she herself has become a surprising underground star for digital pioneers all over the world, starting with Alan Turing. Embraced by programmers and women intechnology, Ada even has her own day that is commemorated every year on Google's search engine.
Author : Heather S. Morrison
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 38,92 MB
Release : 2015-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1502606550
Throughout the course of history, there have been many inventions that have changed the ways societies function, propelling them into a new era. Computers and other corresponding technologies are relatively new inventions, but they have greatly influenced the way modern societies operate. This book gives insight into the most influential inventors of computer technology and the ways in which their inventions contributed to advancing humanity.
Author : Diane Stanley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 27,72 MB
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1481452495
"A fascinating look at Ada Lovelace, the pioneering computer programmer and the daughter of the poet Lord Byron." --