Tous les livres numériques de la collection "History of Computing" - Springer

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Tales of Electrologica Gerard Alberts , Jan Friso Groote 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 PDF, ePub 36,91 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Cyber and the City Ashley Sweetman 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 PDF, ePub 36,91 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Words and Power Bernadette Longo 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 PDF, ePub 36,91 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Automating Linguistics Jacqueline Léon 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... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2021-04-26 Collection : History of Computing PDF, ePub 42,19 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Historical Studies in Computing, Information, and Society William Aspray 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 PDF, ePub 39,02 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
From Urban Legends to Political Fact-Checking William Aspray , James W. Cortada 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 PDF, ePub 34,80 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Early Computing in Britain Simon Lavington 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... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2019-07-06 Collection : History of Computing PDF, ePub 42,19 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Exploring the Early Digital Thomas Haigh 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... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2019-04-30 Collection : History of Computing PDF, ePub 42,19 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Calculation and Computation in the Pre-electronic Era Aristotle Tympas 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... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2018-01-12 Collection : History of Computing PDF 39,02 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Women and Underrepresented Minorities in Computing William Aspray 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 PDF, ePub 36,91 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Participation in Computing William Aspray 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 PDF, ePub 36,91 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Connecting Women Valérie Schafer , Benjamin G. Thierry 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... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2015-10-08 Collection : History of Computing PDF, ePub 52,74 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Hacking Europe Gerard Alberts , Ruth Oldenziel 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,... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2014-09-03 Collection : History of Computing ePub 89,66 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Computers in Swedish Society Per Lundin 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... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2012-05-02 Collection : History of Computing ePub 94,94 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Robert Recorde Jack Williams 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 ePub 94,94 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Moving Targets Simon Lavington 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 ePub 147,69 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
A Science of Operations Mark Priestley 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 ePub 158,24 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Electronic Value Exchange David L. Stearns Electronic Value Exchange examines in detail the transformation of the VISA electronic payment system from a collection of non-integrated, localized, paper-based bank credit card programs into the cooperative, global, electronic value exchange network it is today. ... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2011-01-04 Collection : History of Computing ePub 168,79 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Technology for Modelling Charles Care Historians have different views on the core identity of analogue computing. Some portray the technology solely as a precursor to digital computing, whereas others stress that analogue applications existed well after 1940. Even within contemporary sources, there is a... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2010-06-25 Collection : History of Computing ePub 147,69 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande

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