Cargando…

Histories of computing /

Thirteen of Mahoney's essays and papers covering historiography, software engineering, and theoretical computer science.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mahoney, Michael S. (Michael Sean)
Otros Autores: Haigh, Thomas, 1972-
Formato: eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Unexpected connections, powerful precedents, and big questions: the work of Michael Sean Mahoney on the history of computing / Thomas Haigh
  • Shaping the history of computers
  • The history of computing in the history of technology
  • What makes history?
  • Issues in the history of computing
  • The histories of computing(s)
  • Constructing a history for software
  • Software: the self-programming machine
  • Extracts from The roots of software engineering
  • Finding a history for software engineering
  • Boys' toys and women's work: feminism engages software
  • The structures of computation
  • Computing and mathematics at Princeton in the 1950s
  • Computer science: the search for a mathematical theory
  • Extracts from Computers and mathematics: the search for a discipline of computer science
  • The structures of computation and the mathematical structure of nature
  • Extracts from Software as science, science as software
  • Éloge: Michael Sean Mahoney, 1939-2008 / Jed Z. Buchwald and D. Graham Burnett.