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Livre 12 sur 22: History of Computing

Tympas, Aristotle

 
9781447174103: Calculation and Computation in the Pre-electronic Era: The Mechanical and Electrical Ages

Synopsis

Offers an introduction to the history of computing during the ‘first’ (of steam) and the ‘second’ (of electricity) industrial revolution

Suggests that the computing revolution and the industrial revolution were the same, with the one making the other possible and vice versa

Proposes that analog and digital computing technology is inseparable, with their alleged difference actually resulting from either full or restricted view of the computing process

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À propos de l'auteur

Dr. Aristotle Tympas is an Associate Professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the National and Kapodestrian University of Athens, Greece.

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