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What the dormouse said
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John Markoff |
Most histories of the personal computer industry focus on technology or business. John Markoff's landmark book is about the culture and consciousness behind the first PCs—the culture being counter– a… |
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A history of modern computing
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Paul E Ceruzzi |
This book covers modern computing from the development of the first electronic digital computer through the dot-com crash. The author concentrates on five key moments of transition: the transformatio… |
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Science fiction and computing
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David L. Ferro,Eric Gottfrid Swedin |
"Given the decline in students entering scientific, engineering and mathematical disciplines in the United States, this is a particularly important question within computer science. The 18 chapters i… |
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Computer
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Martin Campbell-Kelly,William Aspray |
This book traces the story of the computer, and shows how business and government were the first to explore its unlimited, information-processing potential. |
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The Innovators
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Walter Isaacson |
Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, The Innovators is Walter Isaacson’s revealing story of the people who created the computer and the Internet. It is destined to be the standard histo… |
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Spiele mit dem Computer - SciFi, Fantasy, Rollenspiele & Co.
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Gerd Frey |
Mit Spiele mit dem Computer liefert Gerd Frey einen fachlich fundierten Über- und Einblick in die Genres und Inhalte der Computer-Spiele, die trotz eines milliardenschweren Marktes und mehr als einer… |
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The computer
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Mark Frauenfelder |
The Computer traces the evolution of this vital machine from its earliest roots through its exciting application in code-breaking during the Second World War, and from its initial use in the workplac… |
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Dealers of Lightning
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Michael A. Hiltzik |
In the bestselling tradition of The Soul of a New Machine, Dealers of Lightning is a fascinating journey of intellectual creation. In the 1970s and '80s, Xerox Corporation brought together a brain-tr… |
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Ada's algorithm
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James Essinger |
Behind every great man, there's a great woman; no other adage more aptly describes the relationship between Charles Babbage, the man credited with thinking up the concept of the programmable computer… |
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The Computer Revolution in Canada
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John N. Vardalas |
After World War II, other major industrialized nations responded to the technological and industrial hegemony of the United States by developing their own design and manufacturing competence in digit… |
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