Télécharger le livre :  Konrad Zuse's Early Computers
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This book describes the historical development of the architectures of the first computers built by the German inventor Konrad Zuse in Berlin between 1936 and 1945. Zuse's machines are historically important because they anticipated many features of modern...

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Parution : 2023-10-13
Collection : History of Computing
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Télécharger le livre :  The Gambler and the Scholars
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In May 1917, William and Elizebeth Friedman were asked by the U.S. Army to begin training officers in cryptanalysis and to decrypt intercepted German diplomatic and military communications.In June 1917, Herbert Yardley convinced the new head of the Army’s Military...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2023-04-05
Collection : History of Computing
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Télécharger le livre :  Tales of Electrologica
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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 industrial achievement combined with the background in a mathematical research center made the company Electrologica a...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2023-01-04
Collection : History of Computing
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Télécharger le livre :  Cyber and the City
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Cyber security is the greatest risk faced by financial institutions today, a risk they have understood and managed for decades longer than is commonly understood. Ever since the major London banks purchased their first computers in the early 1960s, they have had to...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2022-07-25
Collection : History of Computing
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Télécharger le livre :  Words and Power
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When viewed through a political lens, the act of defining terms in natural language arguably transforms knowledge into values. This unique volume explores how corporate, military, academic, and professional values shaped efforts to define computer terminology and...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2021-07-26
Collection : History of Computing
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Télécharger le livre :  Automating Linguistics
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Automating Linguistics offers an in-depth study of the history of the mathematisation and automation of the sciences of language. In the wake of the first mathematisation of the 1930s, two waves followed: machine translation in the 1950s and the development of...

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Parution : 2021-04-26
Collection : History of Computing
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Télécharger le livre :  Historical Studies in Computing, Information, and Society
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This is a volume of chapters on the historical study of information, computing, and society written by seven of the most senior, distinguished members of the History of Computing field. These are edited, expanded versions of papers presented in a distinguished lecture...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2020-01-01
Collection : History of Computing
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Télécharger le livre :  From Urban Legends to Political Fact-Checking
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This text presents an historical examination of political fact-checking, highlighting how this is part of a larger phenomenon of online scrutiny that manifests itself in multiple forms. Reflecting the long history of “fake facts” in America, the book discusses important...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2019-08-12
Collection : History of Computing
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Télécharger le livre :  Early Computing in Britain
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This unique book presents the story of the pioneering manufacturing company Ferranti Ltd. – producer of the first commercially-available computers – and of the nine end-user organisations who purchased these machines with government help in the period 1951 to 1957. The...

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Parution : 2019-07-06
Collection : History of Computing
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Télécharger le livre :  Exploring the Early Digital
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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 communications technology. Today these things are inextricably intertwined, in technologies such as the smartphone and...

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Parution : 2019-04-30
Collection : History of Computing
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Télécharger le livre :  Calculation and Computation in the Pre-electronic Era
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Although it is popularly assumed that the history of computing before the second half of the 20th century was unimportant, in fact the Industrial Revolution was made possible and even sustained by a parallel revolution in computing technology. An examination and...

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Parution : 2018-01-12
Collection : History of Computing
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Télécharger le livre :  Women and Underrepresented Minorities in Computing
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This text examines in detail the issue of the underrepresentation of women, African Americans, American Indians, and Hispanics in the computing disciplines in the U.S. The work reviews the underlying causes, as well as the efforts of various nonprofit organizations to...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2016-07-11
Collection : History of Computing
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Télécharger le livre :  Participation in Computing
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This book provides a history of the efforts of the US National Science Foundation to broaden participation in computing. The book briefly discusses the early history of the NSF's involvement with education and workforce issues. It then turns to two programs outside the...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2016-03-01
Collection : History of Computing
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Télécharger le livre :  Connecting Women
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This important volume examines European perspectives on the historical relations that women have maintained with information and communication technologies (ICTs), since the telegraph. Features: describes how gendered networks have formed around ICT since the late 19th...

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Parution : 2015-10-08
Collection : History of Computing
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Télécharger le livre :  Intertwingled
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This engaging volume celebrates the life and work of Theodor Holm “Ted” Nelson, a pioneer and legendary figure from the history of early computing. Presenting contributions from world-renowned computer scientists and figures from the media industry, the book delves into...

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Parution : 2015-07-03
Collection : History of Computing
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Télécharger le livre :  Hacking Europe
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Hacking Europe traces the user practices of chopping games in Warsaw, hacking software in Athens, creating chaos in Hamburg, producing demos in Turku, and partying with computing in Zagreb and Amsterdam. Focusing on several European countries at the end of the Cold War,...

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Parution : 2014-09-03
Collection : History of Computing
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Télécharger le livre :  Computers in Swedish Society
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This book reviews the shift in the historiography of computing from inventors and innovations to a user-perspective, and examines how the relevant sources can be created, collected, preserved, and disseminated. The text describes and evaluates a project in Sweden that...

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Parution : 2012-05-02
Collection : History of Computing
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Télécharger le livre :  Robert Recorde
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The 16th-Century intellectual Robert Recorde is chiefly remembered for introducing the equals sign into algebra, yet the greater significance and broader scope of his work is often overlooked. This book presents an authoritative and in-depth analysis of the man, his...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2011-11-19
Collection : History of Computing
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Télécharger le livre :  Moving Targets
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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 Britain took place for different applications, from early government-sponsored work on secret defence projects, to the growth...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2011-05-19
Collection : History of Computing
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Télécharger le livre :  A Science of Operations
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Today, computers fulfil a dazzling array of roles, a flexibility resulting from the great range of programs that can be run on them.A Science of Operations examines the history of what we now call programming, defined not simply as computer programming, but more broadly...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2011-02-14
Collection : History of Computing
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