Computing A Concise History

Name: Computing A Concise History
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ISBN: 9780262517676

ISBN-10: 0262517671

ISBN-13: 9780262517676

Edition: 2012

Authors: Paul E. Ceruzzi

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The history of computing could be told as the story of hardware and software, or the story of the Internet, or the story of "smart" hand-held devices, with subplots involving IBM, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, and Twitter. In this concise and accessible account of the invention and development of digital technology, computer historian Paul Ceruzzi offers a broader and more useful perspective. He identifies four major threads that run throughout all of computing's technological development: digitization--the coding of information, computation, and control in binary form, ones and zeros; the convergence of multiple streams of techniques, devices, and machines, yielding more than the sum of…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 6/15/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 5.04" wide x 6.93" long x 0.47" tall
Weight: 0.462
Language: English

Paul E. Ceruzzi is a Curator at the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. He is the author of A History of Modern Computing, Internet Alley: High Technology in Tysons Corner, 1945-2005, both published by the MIT Press, and other books.