The History of the Computer

Reducere. Electronic computers are arguably the greatest invention of the 20th century. They are the enablers for many of the technologies that the developed...

Computer: A History of the Information Machine traces the history of the computer and shows how business and government were the first to explore i...

In the 1970s, while their contemporaries were protesting the computer as a tool of dehumanization and oppression, a motley collection of college dr...

Reducere. As threats to the security of information pervade the fabric of everyday life, A Vulnerable System describes how, even as the demand for informatio...

Reducere. Simply put, an algorithm is a set of instructions-it's the code that makes computers run. A basic idea that proved elusive for hundreds of years an...

A new, compact edition of David Hockney and Martin Gayford's brilliantly original book, with a revised final chapter and three entirely new Hockney...

Reducere. "A fascinating compendium of information about writing systems-both for words and numbers." -Publishers Weekly "A truly enlightening and fascinatin...

This Very Short Introduction discusses the central events, machines, and people that feature in established accounts of the history of computing. I...

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A century ago, almost any state could be competitive at espionage. Fifty years ago, only the Cold War alliances clustered around the two superpower...