A Computer Perspective - Background to the Computer Age, New Edition

2. Auflage 1990
ISBN: 978-0-674-15626-5
Verlag: Harvard University Press

Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 223 mm x 223 mm, Gewicht: 476 g

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 (IBM) 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Eames, Charles

Eames, Ray

Fleck, Glen

Weitere Mitwirkende

Staples, Robert

Cohen, I. Bernard

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Erfindungen und Erfinder 
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik EDV & Informatik Allgemein

Über Autor(innen)

Cohen, I. Bernard
I. Bernard Cohen was Victor S. Thomas Professor of the History of Science, Emeritus, at Harvard University, and one of the founders of the modern study of the history of science.