 | A Computer Perspective: Background to the Computer Age
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by Harvard University Press
Paperback
(01 November, 1990)
(1 reviews) 
Customer Review: A complete guide to computer history.: Clear, but brief details on a vast array of the people, machines, and problems associated with the invention of the computer. |
 | A Few Good Men from Univac
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by Replica Books
Hardcover
(01 October, 1997)
(3 reviews)
Customer Review: Interesting but flawed: This is a quick and fascinating read, filled with great anecdotes from the author's 30 years as a project manager for Univac and Control Data. |
 | A History of Modern Computing (History of Computing)
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by The MIT Press
Hardcover
(12 October, 1998)
(9 reviews) 
Editorial Review: This book delivers exactly what its title promises: a straightforward and comprehensive account of the electronic digital computer's first five decades. Starting with the historic ENIAC of 1945, Ceruzzi moves nimbly through one epochal generation of computing technology after another: the gargantuan, |
 | A History of Online Information Services, 1963-1976
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by The MIT Press
Hardcover
(14 September, 2003)
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 | Alan Turing: The Enigma
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by Walker & Company
Paperback
(01 October, 2000)
(19 reviews) 
Editorial Review: Alan Turing died in 1954, but the themes of his life epitomize the turn of the millennium. A pure mathematician from a tradition that prided itself on its impracticality, Turing laid the foundations for modern computer science, |
 | Appledesign: The Work of the Apple Industrial Design Group
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by Watson-Guptill Publications
Paperback
(01 October, 1997)
(24 reviews)
Editorial Review: This oversized, coffee-table volume is devoted to the industrial design of every product made at Apple Computer over the course of 20 years. Lavishly illustrated with over 400 large color photographs by photographer Rick English, |
 | Artificial Intelligence and Scientific Method
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by Oxford University Press
Hardcover
(01 August, 1996)
(1 reviews)
Customer Review: A prelude to fully automated scientific discovery: This book is interesting in that it attempts to cast questions of the scientific method into the language and concepts of artificial intelligence (AI), |
 | Avatars of the Word: From Papyrus to Cyberspace
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by Harvard University Press
Paperback
(05 May, 2000)
(7 reviews)
Customer Review: A Bracing Conversation on the Future!: J. J. O'Donnell is one those scholars whose learning is assumed rather than displayed. As a result, |
 | Bootstrapping: Douglas Engelbart, Coevolution, and the Origins of Personal Computing
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by Stanford University Press
Paperback
(01 December, 2000)
(1 reviews)
Editorial Review: Some revolutions are thoroughly televised. When Douglas Engelbart first demonstrated small-w windows and a funny wooden device called a mouse back in 1968, interest jumped quickly and he became the progenitor of the PC. |
 | Bows & Arrows of the Native Americans
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by The Lyons Press
Paperback
(01 January, 1992)
(4 reviews) 
Customer Review: excellent: The book was wonderful. Even if I never get to make my own bow, I'am still glad I bought the book. Very well written and easy to understand. |
 | Buzz Aldrin's Race into Space Companion
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by Mcgraw-Hill Osborne Media
Paperback
(01 March, 1993)
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 | Calendrical Calculations
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by Cambridge University Press
Paperback
(28 July, 1997)
(6 reviews)
Customer Review: An excellent book with a mean spirited license: An excellent book on the history and workings of various calendars. But donât use the source code! |
 | CG 101 : A Computer Graphics Industry Reference
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by Pearson Education
Paperback
(16 August, 1999)
(10 reviews)
Editorial Review: The pocket-size CG 101 is the ultimate handy reference. It alphabetically lists hundreds of commonly used computer graphics terms, processes, acronyms, applications, theories, and companies, with lengthy definitions and useful, |
 | Classic Operating Systems
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by Springer-Verlag
Hardcover
(15 January, 2001)
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 | Colossus: The First Electronic Computer (Popular Science)
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by Oxford University Press
Hardcover
(30 January, 2005)
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 | Complete Hackers Handbook PB
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by Carlton Books
Paperback
(28 October, 2002)
(3 reviews) 
Customer Review: a waste of money and time: While the author seems to know a lot about many of the topics he writes about, he, alas, does not know how to write well about them. |
 | Computer Graphics and Animation: History, Careers, Expert Advice (Gardner's Guide
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by Garth Gardner Company
Paperback
(July, 2002)
(1 reviews)
Customer Review: An extensive and informatively accessible tour: Computer Graphics And Animation: History, Careers, Expert Advice by computer expert and academician Garth Gardner is an extensive and informatively accessible tour through a variety of different artistic careers related to computers that are available for an aspiring computer graphics experts to pursue. |
 | Computer-Related Risks
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by Addison-Wesley Pub Co
Paperback
(18 October, 1994)
(2 reviews)
Customer Review: The Bible--For the Real Professionals: Neumann, founder and moderator of the Internet Risk Forum, is the pope of the legitimate computer risks community. |
 | Computer: A History of the Information Machine (The Sloan Technology Series)
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by Basic Books
Hardcover
(01 August, 1996)
(9 reviews)
Editorial Review: This history of the computer explores the roots of the industry's phenomenal development, tracing not only the development of the machine itself--beginning with Charles Babbage's well-known 1883 mechanical prototype--but also chronicling the effects of manufacturing and sales innovations by such companies as Remington and National Cash Register that made the boom possible. |
 | Computers in Space: Journeys With Nasa
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by Alpha Books
Paperback
(01 March, 1994)
(1 reviews)
Customer Review: unique coverage of a key aspect of the space program: So far as I know this is a unique book, covering the history and technology of the space program with respect to computers. |
 | Computers: An Illustrated History
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by Taschen
Hardcover
(February, 2002)
(5 reviews)
Customer Review: Falsehoods: Do not read this book -- unless you want to fill your head with Falsehoods! Blatant errors throughout the entire book! |
 | Computing in the Middle Ages: A View from the Trenches 1955-1983
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by Authorhouse
Paperback
(01 November, 2002)
(2 reviews)
Customer Review: History and clarity, not hype: You can see why the author was able to solve so many of the earliest computing problems: he can distill huge amounts of mind-numbing technical detail into a crisp, |
 | Crypto Anarchy, Cyberstates, and Pirate Utopias
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by The MIT Press
Paperback
(16 April, 2001)
(7 reviews)
Editorial Review: Freedom's not dead in cyberspace. That's the premise of philosopher Peter Ludlow and most of the contributors to his Crypto Anarchy, Cyberstates, and Pirate Utopias, and it's hard to argue otherwise after reading it. |
 | Current Directions in Computer Music Research (System Development Foundation Benchmark
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by The MIT Press
Paperback
(08 October, 1991)
(1 reviews)
Customer Review: A must have for computer music enthusiasts: The articles in collection are very readable - a great deal of care seems to have been made in the editing process. |
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