Author : Thomas Haigh
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 20,10 MB
Release : 2016-02-05
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0262033984
This work explores the conception, design, construction, use, and afterlife of ENIAC, the first general purpose digital electronic computer.
Author : Alice R. Burks
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 11,70 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780472081042
Tells of the design, construction, and subsequent controversy over the first special-purpose electronic computer
Author : Maurice Vincent Wilkes
Publisher :
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 34,90 MB
Release : 1951
Category : Calculators
ISBN :
This is often considered the first book on computer programming. It was written for the EDSAC (Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator) computer that began operation in 1949 as the world's first regularly operated stored program computer. The idea of a library of subroutines was developed for the EDSAC, and is described in this book. Maurice Wilkes lead the development of the EDSAC.
Author : Mike Hally
Publisher : Granta Books (Uk)
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 25,36 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Computers
ISBN :
Account of the birth of the modern computer from 1930-1960.
Author : Adele K. Goldstine
Publisher : Periscope Film LLC
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 15,77 MB
Release : 2012-11
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781937684662
This edition provides a fascinating glimpse into the technology behind the world's first electronic, general-purpose computer, conceived by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert and financed by the Ordnance Department of the U.S. Army. The Army's intent was to use it to calculate artillery firing tables but eventually it was even used to compute data for the design of the hydrogen bomb.
Author : Alfred Dupont CHANDLER
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 50,62 MB
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0674029399
Consumer electronics and computers redefined life and work in the twentieth century. In Inventing the Electronic Century, Pulitzer Prize-winning business historian Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., traces their origins and worldwide development. This masterful analysis is essential reading for every manager and student of technology.
Author : B. Jack Copeland
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 37,55 MB
Release : 2012-05-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0199609152
Rev. ed. of: Alan Turing's automatic computing engine / edited by B. Jack Copeland.
Author : Bertram Vivian Bowden (Baron Bowden)
Publisher :
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 37,72 MB
Release : 1953
Category : Computers
ISBN :
An early introduction to electronic computing. Containing specific information on British computer investigations of the 1940's and '50's.
Author : Eric A. Weiss
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 28,35 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1441987266
A Computer Science Reader covers the entire field of computing, from its technological status through its social, economic and political significance. The book's clearly written selections represent the best of what has been published in the first three-and-a-half years of ABACUS, Springer-Verlag's internatioanl quarterly journal for computing professionals. Among the articles included are: - U.S. versus IBM: An Exercise in Futility? by Robert P. Bigelow - Programmers: The Amateur vs. the Professional by Henry Ledgard - The Composer and the Computer by Lejaren Hiller - SDI: A Violation of Professional Responsibility by David L. Parnas - Who Invented the First Electronic Digital Computer? by Nancy Stern - Foretelling the Future by Adaptive Modeling by Ian H. Witten and John G. Cleary - The Fifth Generation: Banzai or Pie-in-the-Sky? by Eric A. Weiss This volume contains more than 30 contributions by outstanding and authoritative authors grouped into the magazine's regular categories: Editorials, Articles, Departments, Reports from Correspondents, and Features. A Computer Science Reader will be interesting and important to any computing professional or student who wants to know about the status, trends, and controversies in computer science today.
Author : Michael Crichton
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 21,89 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Computers
ISBN :
