Computers - History

The home computer boom of the 1980s brought with it now-iconic machines such as the ZX Spectrum, BBC Micro, and Commodore 64. Those machines would inspire a generation and foster the creation of a booming British software industry that continues to this day.With the...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

Cryptology, the mathematical and technical science of ciphers and codes, and philology, the humanistic study of natural or human languages, are typically understood as separate domains of activity. But Brian Lennon contends that these two domains, both concerned with authentication of text, should be...

Author: Bernd UlmannISBN-10: 3119146285ISBN-13: 9783119146289Publisher: de GruyterLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/02/2026Pages: 551Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.16lbsSize: 9.61h x 6.69w x 1.26d

The untold story of VLC Media Player and the volunteers who built itIn 1996, a group of French students faced a simple problem: they couldn't stream video on their campus network. Their solution would become VLC Media Player, installed on over 3 billion devices...

From dial-up to wi-fi, an engaging cultural history of the commercial web industryIn the 1990s, the World Wide Web helped transform the Internet from the domain of computer scientists to a playground for mass audiences. As URLs leapt off computer screens and onto cereal...

The spectacular economic performance of China, East Asia and India during the last ten years has ignited some profound changes in the world economy. The share of global demand, investments, trade and production of the traditional industrialized powers, the US, Europe and Japan, has...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

Although the microchip is an American invention, early, unbridled competition among U.S. companies and the worldwide race for new products allowed the Japanese to move in on the microchip market. By the mid-1980s, Japan dominated the industry, in this country as well as abroad,...

Electric Dreams turns to the past to trace the cultural history of computers. Ted Friedman charts the struggles to define the meanings of these powerful machines over more than a century, from the failure of Charles Babbage's "difference engine" in the nineteenth century to...

The 1990s dawned with a belief that the digital revolution would radically transform our traditional notion of cities as places of commerce and industry. Many predicted that digital technology would render cities--or at least their economies--obsolete. Instead, precisely the opposite happened. The IT-intensive firms...

Systems integration--the enterprise-wide integration of computer applications--offers an enormous opportunity for U.S. firms to capitalize on their strengths in such areas as complex software, networking, and management. In this book, industry leaders, university researchers, and government policymakers discuss what systems integration is, its importance...

While most industrial nations have already begun to adapt to the information explosion, developing countries have suffered a lag in keeping up. The Information Society: An International Perspective examines many of the issues facing all nations, but especially the Third World, as information continues...

This book presents "the digital age" as a central theme, covering digital transformation, social media, artificial intelligence, autonomous drones and mobile robots as well as self-driving vehicles. Among many other topics, the author also discusses quantum computers, DNA data storage, 3D printing, and the...

This book presents "the digital age" as a central theme, covering digital transformation, social media, artificial intelligence, autonomous drones and mobile robots as well as self-driving vehicles. Among many other topics, the author also discusses quantum computers, DNA data storage, 3D printing, and the...

Despite widespread consensus that China's digital revolution was sure to bring about massive democratic reforms, such changes have not come to pass. While scholars and policy makers alternate between predicting change and disparaging a stubbornly authoritarian regime, in this book Shaohua Guo demonstrates how...

The race to create thinking machines started 5000 years ago. From Archimedes to Bill Gates, and from Charles Babbage to Tim Berners-Lee, the machines and the web weave an intricate and interesting tale. Meet the machines, the inventions and the inventors that have defined...

Advancement of telecommunications and information infrastructure occurs largely through private investment. The government affects the rate and direction of this progress through regulation and public investment. This book presents a range of positions and perspectives on those two classes of policy mechanism, providing a...

This book warns that retaining U.S. preeminence in computing at the beginning of the next century will require long-term planning, leadership, and collective will that cannot be attained with a business-as-usual approach by industry or government. This consensus emerged from a colloquium of top...

Discover the untold story behind the lenses that changed how we see.The Independent Eye traces the rise of Japan's independent lensmakers-Tamron, Sigma, Tokina, Cosina/Voigtländer and their partnerships with Zeiss-from anonymous OEM suppliers to innovators shaping modern photography.Blending history, engineering and real-world shooting experience, Siu...

Over the past 15 years, the twin giants of Asia-China and India-have jumped on the opportunity provided by the IT revolution to turbocharge their economic growth. India has become a software services powerhouse, while China churns out much of the world's IT hardware. How...

Twenty-five games, thirty years, over eighty ports-whatever the number, there've been quite a lot of games based on The Simpsons. The story of the animated sitcom that tried to make it in video games is a long and sordid tale, now collected here in...

Revealing the unheralded contributions of women of color to the foundation and development of the digital economyThe Inattention Economy challenges the widespread myth that the internet was born from the labor of a handful of white male entrepreneurs, recovering the uncredited and unpaid contributions...

Do the antitrust laws have a place in the digital economy or are they obsolete? That is the question raised by the government's legal action against Microsoft, and it is the question this volume is designed to answer. America's antitrust laws were born out...

The Technology of Sun M icrosystems Two years ago, Sun Microsystems began publishing a quarterly tech- nical journal, Sun Technology: The Journal for Sun Users. Since then, its pages have explored in detail diverse technology and products relating to Sun. The journal's technically sophisticated...

The former editor of the Financial Times delivers, "with literary flair and stunning revelations" (Steve Coll, Pulitzer Prize winner), the unputdownable first Western biography of SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son, financial disruptor and personification of the 21st century's addiction to instant wealth. As Wall Street...

Before the Computer fully explores the data processing industry in the United States from its nineteenth-century inception down to the period when the computer became its primary tool. As James Cortada describes what was once called the "office appliance industry," he challenges our view...

How did a small southwest town transform itself into a hotbed of research science, advanced technology, and money? Tracking key figures in Santa Fe's emerging industries, Ed Regis explains how entrepreneurial scientists are using complexity theory and powerful, experimental computer programs to create practical--and...

Ghost in the Brussels: Understanding European Cybersecurity through AnimeBy Antonio "AI" IeranòEurope once dreamed of regulating the Internet. Then Artificial Intelligence. Then - inevitably - humans.Ghost in the Brussels is a dazzling, satirical journey through the labyrinth of European digital law, where bureaucracy meets...

A media history of simulation that contextualizes our digital heritage and the history of computing. In Computing Legacies, Peter Krapp explores a media history of simulation to excavate three salient aspects of digital culture. Firstly, he profiles simulation as cultural technique, enabling symbolic work...

This book, aimed at general readers, covers the entirety of computing history from antiquity to the present, placing the story of computing into the broader context of politics, economics, society, and more. Computers dominate the world we live in, and this book describes how...

Author: Katherine DunnISBN-10: 1639734317ISBN-13: 9781639734313Publisher: Bloomsbury PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/16/2026Pages: 320Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 9.25h x 6.12w x 1.00d

The Heinz Nixdorf Museum Forum (HNF) is the world's largest c- puter museum and is dedicated to portraying the past, present and future of information technology. In the "Year of Informatics 2006" the HNF was particularly keen to examine the history of this still...

The Heinz Nixdorf Museum Forum (HNF) is the world's largest c- puter museum and is dedicated to portraying the past, present and future of information technology. In the "Year of Informatics 2006" the HNF was particularly keen to examine the history of this still...

This accessible compendium examines a collection of significant technology firms that have helped to shape the field of computing and its impact on society. Each company is introduced with a brief account of its history, followed by a concise account of its key contributions....

Over the past 15 years, the twin giants of Asia-China and India-have jumped on the opportunity provided by the IT revolution to turbocharge their economic growth. India has become a software services powerhouse, while China churns out much of the world's IT hardware. How...

Alan Turing is regarded as one of the greatest scientists of the 20th century. But who was Turing, and what did he achieve during his tragically short life of 41 years? Best known as the genius who broke Germany's most secret codes during the...

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 spectrum of understanding around what...

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...

The International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) is a non-profit umbrella organization for national societies working in the field of information processing. It was founded in 1960 under the auspices of UNESCO. It is organized into several technical committees. This book represents the proceedings...

These proceedings derive from an international conference on the history of computing and education. This conference is the second of hopefully a series of conferences that will take place within the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and hence, we describe it as the...

Author: Paul Jowett,Margaret RothwellISBN-10: 0333394216ISBN-13: 9780333394212Publisher: Palgrave MacMillanLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/11/1986Pages: 108Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.68lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.44d

What if the way ideas are shared has always been the most powerful force shaping the world?For as long as humans have existed, the flow of information has been at the center of everything we do. It has built great civilizations, spread revolutionary ideas,...

As the first book about software culture, this book discusses software culture from three perspectives including historical perspective, the classification of software and software applications. This book takes credit from the view of science and technology development. It analyzed scientific innovations and the social...

Artificial Intelligence isn't coming. A.I. is here now. This book explores A.I. from the inside out. From the early days of college bulletin boards (BBSes), and MOOS and MUDS to the ChatGPT of today that pumps out content to consume including entire books. This...

Edmund C. Berkeley (1909 - 1988) was a mathematician, insurance actuary, inventor, publisher, and a founder of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). His book Giant Brains or Machines That Think (1949) was the first explanation of computers for a general readership. His journal...

Explore the fascinating origins of modern computing with J. A. V. Turck's "Origin of modern calculating machines." This meticulously prepared reprint delves into the history of technology, examining the mechanical engineering marvels that paved the way for today's computers. Discover the evolution of calculators...

Explore the fascinating stories behind the inventions that shaped our modern world. From the humble wheel to the groundbreaking smartphone, this book delves into ten revolutionary innovations that redefined human civilization. Discover how these creations transformed transportation, communication, medicine, and more, leaving an enduring...

The essential role that the oldest literary technology--books--played in making computers popular and pervasive. In README, historian Patrick McCray argues that in order for computers to become ubiquitous, people first had to become interested in them, learn about them, and take the machines seriously....

On the Way to the Web is the story of the opening of the Internet, and parallel developments in the alternate world of computer bulletin board systems. It's a chronicle of the inventive, individualistic and often cantankerous individuals who set the Internet free--and the...