It began with Babbage : the genesis of computer science /

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In It Began With Babbage, Subrata Dasgupta examines the unique history of computer science in terms of its creative innovations, spanning back to Charles Babbage in 1819. Since all artifacts of computer science are conceived with a use in mind, the computer scientist is not concerned with the natura...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dasgupta, Subrata (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford [England] : Oxford University Press, [2014]
Temas:
1800-1999
Computer science > History > 19th century.
Computer science > History > 20th century.
Informatique > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Informatique > Histoire > 20e siècle.
COMPUTERS > Computer Literacy.
COMPUTERS > Computer Science.
COMPUTERS > Data Processing.
COMPUTERS > Hardware > General.
COMPUTERS > Information Technology.
COMPUTERS > Machine Theory.
COMPUTERS > Reference.
Computer science
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue
  • Leibniz's theme, Babbage's dream
  • Weaving algebraic patterns
  • Missing links
  • Entscheidungsproblem : what's in a word?
  • Towards a holy grail
  • Intermezzo
  • A tangled web of inventions
  • A paradigm is born
  • A liminal artifact of an uncommon nature
  • Glimpses of a scientific style
  • I compute, therefore I am
  • "The best way to design"
  • Language games
  • Going heuristic
  • An explosion of subparadigms
  • Aesthetica
  • Epilogue.

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