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

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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 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 than many more conventional presentations of the development of science and technology.

Language: English

Pages: 176

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Release: September 01, 1990

ISBN: 0674156269

ISBN 13: 9780674156265

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

3.8/5 ( ratings)

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 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 than many more conventional presentations of the development of science and technology.

Language: English

Pages: 176

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Release: September 01, 1990

ISBN: 0674156269

ISBN 13: 9780674156265

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