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Heinz Zemanek, Science of Computer Programming : The volume is a must for everyone interested in computer history and an important tool for anyone wanting to understand how the computer age started.
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A Computer Perspective is an illustrated essay on the origins and first lines of development of the computer. The complex network of creative forces and social pressures that have produced the computer is personified here in the creators of instruments of computation, and their machines or tables; the inventors of mathematical or logical concepts and their applications; and the fabricators of practical devices to serve the immediate needs of government, commerce, engineering, and science.
The book is based on an exhibition conceived and assembled for International Business Machines Corporation. Like the exhibition, it is not a history in the narrow sense of a chronology of concepts and devices. Yet these pages actually display more true history (in relation to the computer) than many more conventional presentations of the development of science and technology.
A Computer Perspective,Charles Eames,Ray Eames,Glen Fleck,I. Bernard Cohen,Robert Staples,Harvard University Press,0674156269,Computer Science,Computer Science (General),Computers,Computers - General Information,General,History,Philosophy,Science,Science/Mathematics,General Theory of Computing,Science / General
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