Transforming Computer Technology: Information Processing for the Pentagon, 1962-1986 - Couverture souple

Norberg, Arthur L. L.

 
9780801863691: Transforming Computer Technology: Information Processing for the Pentagon, 1962-1986
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0801863694 ISBN 13 : 9780801863691
Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000

Synopsis

Winner of the Association of American Publishers Professional and Scholarly Publishing Award for Computer Science

Over the course of several decades, the Pentagon's Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO) helped transform computing from a cumbersome enterprise based on batch processing to the instantly interactive, graphically rich, highly intelligent computing of today. With the purpose of improving command and control systems for the military, IPTO researchers strengthened time-sharing, laid the groundwork for graphics and parallel processing, contributed to the study of artificial intelligence, and developed the wide-area network that came to be known as the Internet. Transforming Computer Technology examines these and other developments at the Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency in its heyday between 1962 and 1986. The authors show how Pentagon programs affected significant developments in both computer science and engineering. They analyze the management of the office, the origins and growth of important IPTO programs, and the interaction of the staff with the R & D community. They pay special attention to IPTO's role in executing research at the leading edge of computing and networking and in working with the military to transfer that research into practical use. And they show how, by the 1990s, the research results had been assimilated into systems both for the military and for civilian society.

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À propos des auteurs

Arthur L. Norberg is the former co-director and co-associate director of the Charles Babbage Institute (CBI), Center for the History of Information Processing, University of Minnesota.

Judy E. O'Neill is the former co-director and co-associate director of the Charles Babbage Institute (CBI), Center for the History of Information Processing, University of Minnesota.

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Éditeur
Johns Hopkins University Press
Date d'édition
2000
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0801863694
ISBN 13 
9780801863691
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
380
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9780801851520: Transforming Computer Technology: Information Processing for the Pentagon, 1962-1986

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0801851521 ISBN 13 :  9780801851520
Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996
Couverture rigide