Software 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 Software Pioneers write by Manfred Broy. This book was released on 2012-12-06. Software Pioneers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A lucid statement of the philosophy of modular programming can be found in a 1970 textbook on the design of system programs by Gouthier and Pont [1, l Cfl0. 23], which we quote below: A well-defined segmentation of the project effort ensures system modularity. Each task fonos a separate, distinct program module. At implementation time each module and its inputs and outputs are well-defined, there is no confusion in the intended interface with other system modules. At checkout time the in tegrity of the module is tested independently; there are few sche duling problems in synchronizing the completion of several tasks before checkout can begin. Finally, the system is maintained in modular fashion; system errors and deficiencies can be traced to specific system modules, thus limiting the scope of detailed error searching. Usually nothing is said about the criteria to be used in dividing the system into modules. This paper will discuss that issue and, by means of examples, suggest some criteria which can be used in decomposing a system into modules. A Brief Status Report The major advancement in the area of modular programming has been the development of coding techniques and assemblers which (1) allow one modu1e to be written with little knowledge of the code in another module, and (2) alJow modules to be reas sembled and replaced without reassembly of the whole system.
International Biographical Dictionary of Computer Pioneers
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.
Pioneering American Computer Geniuses
Pioneering American Computer Geniuses - 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 Pioneering American Computer Geniuses write by Mary Northrup. This book was released on 2013-07-01. Pioneering American Computer Geniuses available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. It is hard to imagine a world without computers. The people found in this book are largely responsible for creating the high-tech world in which we live today. These computer geniuses include early programmers like Grace Hopper and Herman Hollerith, computer chip inventors like Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce, and business people like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. Readers take a look at thirteen individuals whose work has helped bring modern computers to their current level. Other people profiled in this volume are John von Neumann, John W. Mauchly, J. Presper Eckert, Jr., An Wang, Stephen Wozniak, Marc Hannah and Marc Andreessen.
Pioneers of the Computer Age: from Charles Babbage to Steve Jobs
Pioneers of the Computer Age: from Charles Babbage to Steve Jobs - 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 Pioneers of the Computer Age: from Charles Babbage to Steve Jobs write by Abdul Montaqim. This book was released on 2012-04-08. Pioneers of the Computer Age: from Charles Babbage to Steve Jobs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is intended to provide an introduction to, and an overview of, the computer industry - or the "Computer Age" - as well as the key people who created the computerised world we live in... without too many technical details. The idea is to offer a snapshot of the industry at this point in time and find out how it got where it is today, highlighting its most notable inventions and innovations and the pioneering people who are responsible for them.Extract: The original human computers used tools to help them calculate. The most well known calculating tool from antiquity is the abacus, which was usually made from wood and featured a frame containing sticks along which beads could be moved. It is believed that the abacus was invented some time between 2700-2300 BC, in Sumeria, and its forerunner was probably a system whereby stones or beads were moved along grooves in the sand or ground, or tablets of wood, stone or metal.
Smarter Than Their Machines
Smarter Than Their Machines - 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 Smarter Than Their Machines write by John Cullinane. This book was released on 2014-11-01. Smarter Than Their Machines available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Smarter Than Their Machines: Oral Histories of the Pioneers of Interactive Computing is based on oral histories archived at the Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota. Included are the oral histories of some key pioneers of the computer industry selected by John that led to interactive computing, such as Richard Bloch, Gene Amdahl, Herbert W. Robinson, Sam Wyly, J.C.R. Licklider, Ivan Sutherland, Larry Roberts, Robert Kahn, Marvin Minsky, Michael Dertouzos, and Joseph Traub, as well as his own. John has woven them together via introductions that is, in essence, a personal walk down the computer industry road. John had the unique advantage of having been part of, or witness to, much of the history contained in these oral histories beginning as a co-op student at Arthur D. Little, Inc., in the 1950’s. Eventually, he would become a pioneer in his own right by creating the computer industry's first successful software products company (Cullinane Corporation). However, an added benefit of reading these oral histories is that they contain important messages for our leaders of today, at all levels, including that government, industry, and academia can accomplish great things when working together in an effective way. This is how the computer industry was created, which then led to the Internet, both totally unanticipated just 75 years ago.
