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Computing: A Concise History by Curator of Aerospace Electronics and Computing Paul E Ceruzzi (CD-Audio, 2016)

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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 techlogy, computer historian Paul Ceruzzi offers a broader and more useful perspective. He identifies four major threads that run throughout all of computing's techlogical 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 techlogy, 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 in anti-aircraft devices), and recounting the development of the punch card (for use in the 1890 US Census). He describes the ENIAC, built for scientific and military applications; the UNIVAC, the first general purpose computer; and ARPANET, the Internet's precursor. Ceruzzi's account traces the world-changing evolution of the computer from a room-size ensemble of machinery to a minicomputer to a desktop computer to a pocket-sized smart phone. He describes the development of the silicon chip, which could store ever-increasing amounts of data and enabled ever-decreasing device size. He visits that hotbed of invation, Silicon Valley, and brings the story up to the present with the Internet, the World Wide Web, and social networking.

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Publisher
Gildan Media Corporation
ISBN-10
1469003988
ISBN-13
9781469003986
eBay Product ID (ePID)
223368431

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Author
Curator of Aerospace Electronics and Computing Paul E Ceruzzi
Format
CD-Audio, CD Standard Audio Format
Language
English
Subject
Computing: General
Type
Textbook

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Running Time
236
Read by
Timothy Andr Pabon
Series Title
MIT Press Essential Knowledge
Date of Publication
06/09/2016
Contained Items Statement
4 Audio Cds
Country of Publication
United States

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