International Biographical Dictionary of Computer Pioneers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook International Biographical Dictionary of Computer Pioneers write by John A. N. Lee. This book was released on 1995. International Biographical Dictionary of Computer Pioneers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Edmund Berkeley and the Social Responsibility of Computer Professionals
Edmund Berkeley and the Social Responsibility of Computer Professionals - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Edmund Berkeley and the Social Responsibility of Computer Professionals write by Bernadette Longo. This book was released on 2015-09-01. Edmund Berkeley and the Social Responsibility of Computer Professionals available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Edmund C. Berkeley (1909 – 1988) was a mathematician, insurance actuary, inventor, publisher, and a founder of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). His book Giant Brains or Machines That Think (1949) was the first explanation of computers for a general readership. His journal Computers and Automation (1951-1973) was the first journal for computer professionals. In the 1950s, Berkeley developed mail-order kits for small, personal computers such as Simple Simon and the Braniac. In an era when computer development was on a scale barely affordable by universities or government agencies, Berkeley took a different approach and sold simple computer kits to average Americans. He believed that digital computers, using mechanized reasoning based on symbolic logic, could help people make more rational decisions. The result of this improved reasoning would be better social conditions and fewer large-scale wars. Although Berkeley’s populist notions of computer development in the public interest did not prevail, the events of his life exemplify the human side of ongoing debates concerning the social responsibility of computer professionals. This biography of Edmund Berkeley, based on primary sources gathered over 15 years of archival research, provides a lens to understand social and political decisions surrounding early computer development, and the consequences of these decisions in our 21st century lives.
Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology
Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology write by Harry Henderson. This book was released on 2009. Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Presents an illustrated A-Z encyclopedia containing approximately 600 entries on computer and technology related topics.
Building Blocks of Society
Building Blocks of Society - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Building Blocks of Society write by James W. Cortada. This book was released on 2020-11-25. Building Blocks of Society available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The history of information is a rapidly emerging new subfield of history. Historians are identifying the issues they need to examine, crafting novel research agendas, and locating research materials relevant to their work. Like the larger world around them, historians are discovering what it means to live and work in a world that increasingly sees itself as an information society. Long a discussion point among sociologists, economists, political leaders, and media experts, historians are integrating their methods and research into the larger conversation. The purpose of this book is to advocate for a way to look at the history of information and to history as a whole that is simultaneously relevant to observers in other disciplines and familiar to historians of business, economics, sociology and technology. The author presents that advocacy in two ways: with theoretical and historiographical discussions of what information ecosystems and infrastructures are and their value for this kind of research, second, through a range of case studies applying those concepts. The wide range of case studies is purposeful in demonstrating the applicability of the ideas presented in the early methodological chapters. Themes mentioned in each of the early chapters are consistently applied in all subsequent chapters. This book breaks from the more traditional historiography of book history, sociological and philosophical discussions about knowledge and society. The first two chapters focus on the craft of the historian in this new field, better known as historiography and methods. Subsequent chapters are case studies, showing what results when a historian writes about ecosystems and infrastructures, moving our discussion from theory to practice. The book is an important and substantive contribution to this new subfield, an essential primer, as well as a major statement for all historians on how next to evolve their craft.
Encyclopedia of Life Writing
Encyclopedia of Life Writing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Encyclopedia of Life Writing write by Margaretta Jolly. This book was released on 2013-12-04. Encyclopedia of Life Writing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First published in 2001. This is the first substantial reference work in English on the various forms that constitute "life writing." As this term suggests, the Encyclopedia explores not only autobiography and biography proper, but also letters, diaries, memoirs, family histories, case histories, and other ways in which individual lives have been recorded and structured. It includes entries on genres and subgenres, national and regional traditions from around the world, and important auto-biographical writers, as well as articles on related areas such as oral history, anthropology, testimonies, and the representation of life stories in non-verbal art forms.
