Computing: a Concise History The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series |
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| Author:
| Ceruzzi, Paul E. |
| Narrated by:
| Pabon, Timothy Andrés |
| Series title: | The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4690-6393-5 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2015 |
| Publisher: | Ascent Audio
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| Imprint: | Gildan Audio |
| Book Format: | Downloadable audio file |
| List Price: | USD $24.98 |
Book Description:
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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...
More DescriptionThe 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 their parts; the steady advance of electronic technology, as characterized famously by "Moore's Law"; and the human-machine interface. Ceruzzi guides us through computing history, telling how a Bell Labs mathematician coined the word "digital" in 1942 (to describe a high-speed method of calculating used