A Computer Perspective: Background to the Computer Age - Couverture souple

Eames, Charles; Eames, Ray

 
9780674156265: A Computer Perspective: Background to the Computer Age
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0674156269 ISBN 13 : 9780674156265
Editeur : Harvard University Press, 1990

Synopsis

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 (IBM) 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 (in relation to the computer) than many more conventional presentations of the development of science and technology.

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À propos de l?auteur

I. Bernard Cohen was Victor S. Thomas Professor of the History of Science, Emeritus, at Harvard University, and one of the founders of the modern study of the history of science.

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Éditeur
Harvard University Press
Date d'édition
1990
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0674156269
ISBN 13 
9780674156265
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
2
Nombre de pages
176
Éditeur
Fleck Glen
Coordonnées du fabricant
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