Calculation and Computation in the Pre-Electronic Era

Aristotle Tympas

• Paperback | Engels | History of Computing
• Offers an introduction to the history of computing during the 'first' (of steam) and the 'second' (of electricity) industrial revolution Suggests that... Lees meer

Intertwingled

• Hardcover | Engels | History of Computing
• This engaging volume celebrates the life and work of Theodor Holm "Ted" Nelson, a pioneer and legendary figure from the history of early computing. Pr... Lees meer

Cyber and the City

Ashley Sweetman

• Paperback | Engels | History of Computing
• Cyber security is the greatest risk faced by financial institutions today, a risk they have understood and managed for decades longer than is commonly... Lees meer

Early Computing in Britain

Simon Lavington

• Paperback | Engels | History of Computing
• This unique book presents the story of the pioneering manufacturing company Ferranti Ltd. - producer of the first commercially-available computers - a... Lees meer

Technology for Modelling

Charles Care

• Paperback | Engels | History of Computing
• Historians have different views on the core identity of analogue computing. Some portray the technology solely as a precursor to digital computing, wh... Lees meer

Women and Underrepresented Minorities in Computing

William Aspray

• Paperback | Engels | History of Computing
• This text examines in detail the issue of the underrepresentation of women, African Americans, American Indians, and Hispanics in the computing discip... Lees meer

Konrad Zuse's Early Computers

Raúl Rojas

• Paperback | Engels | History of Computing
• This book describes the historical development of the architectures of the first computers built by the German inventor Konrad Zuse in Berlin between ... Lees meer

The Internet and American Business

• Paperback | Engels | History of Computing
• The effect of a commercialized Internet on American business, from the boom in e-commerce and adjustments by bricks-and-mortar businesses to file-shar... Lees meer

Cyber and the City

Ashley Sweetman

• Hardcover | Engels | History of Computing
• Cyber security is the greatest risk faced by financial institutions today, a risk they have understood and managed for decades longer than is commonly... Lees meer

Computers in Swedish Society

Per Lundin

• Hardcover | Engels | History of Computing
• This book reviews the shift in the historiography of computing from inventors and innovations to a user-perspective, and examines how the relevant sou... Lees meer

For Fun and Profit

Christopher Tozzi

• Hardcover | Engels | History of Computing
• The free and open source software movement, from its origins in hacker culture, through the development of GNU and Linux, to its commercial use today.... Lees meer

Moving Targets

Simon Lavington

• Paperback | Engels | History of Computing
• This book charts the take-up of IT in Britain, as seen through the eyes of one company. It examines how the dawn of the digital computer age in Britai... Lees meer

Tales of Electrologica

• Paperback | Engels | History of Computing
• Manufacturing computers in series was quite a feat in the 1950s. As mathematical as it gets, the machines discussed here were called X1 and X8. The in... Lees meer

Making It Work

Jeffrey R Yost

• Hardcover | Engels | History of Computing
• The evolution of the multi-billion-dollar computer services industry, from consulting and programming to data analytics and cloud computing, with case... Lees meer

A History of Modern Computing

Paul E Ceruzzi

• Paperback | Engels | History of Computing
• 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 transforma... Lees meer

Productivity Machines

Corinna Schlombs

• Paperback | Engels | History of Computing
• How productivity culture and technology became emblematic of the American economic system in pre- and postwar Germany. The concept of productivity ori... Lees meer

Computers in Swedish Society

Per Lundin

• Paperback | Engels | History of Computing
• This book reviews the shift in the historiography of computing from inventors and innovations to a user-perspective, and examines how the relevant sou... Lees meer

Recoding Gender

Janet Abbate

• Paperback | Engels | History of Computing
• The untold history of women and computing: how pioneering women succeeded in a field shaped by gender biases. Today, women earn a relatively low perce... Lees meer

Electronic Value Exchange

David L Stearns

• Hardcover | Engels | History of Computing
• Electronic Value Exchange examines in detail the transformation of the VISA electronic payment system from a collection of non-integrated, localized, ... Lees meer

Konrad Zuse's Early Computers

Raúl Rojas

• Hardcover | Engels | History of Computing
• This book describes the historical development of the architectures of the first computers built by the German inventor Konrad Zuse in Berlin between ... Lees meer

The First Computers

• Paperback | Engels | History of Computing
• This history of computing focuses not on chronology (what came first and who deserves credit for it) but on the actual architectures of the first mach... Lees meer

Hacking Europe

• Paperback | Engels | History of Computing
• Hacking Europe traces the user practices of chopping games in Warsaw, hacking software in Athens, creating chaos in Hamburg, producing demos in Turku,... Lees meer

The Government Machine

Jon Agar

• Paperback | Engels | History of Computing
• An examination of technology and politics in the evolution of the British "government machine." In The Government Machine, Jon Agar traces the mechani... Lees meer

Exploring the Early Digital

• Hardcover | Engels | History of Computing
• 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 c... Lees meer