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A Computer Perspective: Background to the Computer Age, New Edition
Charles Eames
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Description for A Computer Perspective: Background to the Computer Age, New Edition
Paperback. Editor(s): Fleck, Glen. Num Pages: 176 pages, 351 halftones, 104 color illustrations, 149 line illustrations. BIC Classification: UY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 222 x 13. Weight in Grams: 454.
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674156265
SKU
V9780674156265
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About Charles Eames
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.
Reviews for A Computer Perspective: Background to the Computer Age, New Edition
A Computer Perspective is the first truly graphic history of the origin and development of the computer… This book will long remain a unique anthology of the great events that occur when dreamers and theorists can get together with engineers and inventors.
The Economist
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