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9780195140255: Creating Modern Computing
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ISBN 10: 0195140257 ISBN 13: 9780195140255
Editorial: Oxford University Press Inc, 2002

Sinopsis

With a broad scope, this guide offers an authoriative introduction to the complex, interdisciplinary origins of computing. The book gives an overview of two centuries in the history of information processing and detailed coverage of a number of more recent topics including PC software, user interfaces and the Internet. It integrates the technical, business and policy aspects of the history of computing and thereby explains how and why computers were created and how they were shaped by the intent of their creators. It explains the development and the emergence of the modern computer industry.

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"[P]rovides a survey history for a wide range of general readers, students, and historians and computer professionals. The most recent such approach as we go to press, the 15 contribueted chapters are all by authorities in the field. ... Taken together, these chapters provide a well-grounded survey of two centuries in the history of information processing and detailed coverage of a number of more recent topics, including policy aspects of the history of computing."--Communication Booknotes Quarterly "[P]rovides a survey history for a wide range of general readers, students, and historians and computer professionals. The most recent such approach as we go to press, the 15 contribueted chapters are all by authorities in the field. ... Taken together, these chapters provide a well-grounded survey of two centuries in the history of information processing and detailed coverage of a number of more recent topics, including policy aspects of the history of computing."--Communication Booknotes Quarterly "[P]rovides a survey history for a wide range of general readers, students, and historians and computer professionals. The most recent such approach as we go to press, the 15 contribueted chapters are all by authorities in the field. ... Taken together, these chapters provide a well-grounded survey of two centuries in the history of information processing and detailed coverage of a number of more recent topics, including policy aspects of the history of computing."--Communication Booknotes Quarterly "[P]rovides a survey history for a wide range of general readers, students, and historians and computer professionals. The most recent such approach as we go to press, the 15 contribueted chapters are all by authorities in the field. ... Taken together, these chapters provide a well-grounded surveyof two centuries in the history of information processing and detailed coverage of a number of more recent topics, including policy aspects of the history of computing."--Communication Booknotes Quarterly " P rovides a survey history for a wide range of general readers, students, and historians and computer professionals. The most recent such approach as we go to press, the 15 contribueted chapters are all by authorities in the field. ... Taken together, these chapters provide a well-grounded surveyof two centuries in the history of information processing and detailed coverage of a number of more recent topics, including policy aspects of the history of computing."--Communication Booknotes Quarterly

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With a broad scope, this guide offers an authoriative introduction to the complex, interdisciplinary origins of computing. The book gives an overview of two centuries in the history of information processing and detailed coverage of a number of more recent topics including PC software, user interfaces and the Internet. It integrates the technical, business and policy aspects of the history of computing and thereby explains how and why computers were created and how they were shaped by the intent of their creators. It explains the development and the emergence of the modern computer industry.

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Editorial
Oxford University Press Inc
Año de publicación
2002
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Inglés
ISBN 10 
0195140257
ISBN 13 
9780195140255
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Número de páginas
239
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