Beyond Calculation: The Next Fifty Years of Computing (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780387985886)

The scientific, social and economic impact of computers is only beginning to be felt. These sixteen invited essays on the future of computing take on a dazzling variety of topics, featuring opinions from Gordon Bell, Paul Abraham, Sherry Turkle, David Gelernter, Donald Norman, Edsger W. Dijkstra, and many other notables. This brilliantly eclectic collection, commissioned to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the first electronic computer, will fascinate anybody with an interest in computers and where they're taking us.

Author: Peter J. Denning, Robert M. Metcalfe
ISBN-10: 0387985883
ISBN-13: 9780387985886
Publisher: Copernicus Books
Language: English
Published: 09/25/1998
Pages: 313
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.19h x 6.11w x 0.95d