Overview :If asked, most people would agree that there are deep connections between technology and the modern world, and even that technology is the t... Read More
Overview :The computing profession faces a serious gender crisis. Today, fewer women enter computing than anytime in the past 25 years. This book prov... Read More
Overview :"I was fortunate in having an instructor at the University of Minnesota who was looking after me," recalled one electrical engineering gradu... Read More
Overview :Accounts of the early events of the computing industry--the Turing machine, the massive Colossus, the ENIAC computer--are well-told tales, a... Read More
Overview :Communities of Computing is the first book-length history of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), founded in 1947 and with a membe... Read More
Overview :This book presents a unique behind-the-scenes view into the Control Data Corporation during its ascent into the top rank of the computer ind... Read More
Overview : Now updated -- A comprehensive, 500-year history of technology in society. Historian Thomas J. Misa's sweeping history of the relationship ... Read More
Overview :Historian Thomas J. Misa's sweeping history of the relationship between technology and society over the past 500 years reveals how technolog... Read More
Overview :From the age of railroads through the building of the first battleships, from the first skyscrapers to the dawning of the age of the automob... Read More