SpringerBriefs in History of Computing – serie
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Understanding Information History
The Case of America in 1920
Häftad, 2023
566 kr
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Microhistory is a technique that has been used effectively by writers of both fiction and nonfiction. It enables the author to cut through the complexities of large swaths of history by focusing on a particular time and place. Microhistories are particularly useful in historical study when a …
Making and Meanings of a Computing Reference Work
Exploring the Encyclopedia of Computer Science
Av William Aspray, David Hemmendinger
Häftad, 2026
544 kr
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This manuscript is about an artifact, the Encyclopedia of Computer Science (ECS). From the time that computer science was mature enough to have its own reference book until printed reference books began to be eclipsed by online products—that is, roughly the final quarter of the 20th century—ECS was …
Routines of Substitution
John von Neumann’s Work on Software Development, 1945–1948
Häftad, 2018
550 kr
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This work is a historical and philosophical study of the programming work carried out by John von Neumann in the period 1945-8. At the heart of the book is an examination of a manuscript featuring the earliest known surviving example of von Neumann’s coding, a routine written in 1945 to ‘mesh’ two …
