A history of computing in the twentieth century : a collection of essays /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores Corporativos: International Research Conference on the History of Computing Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, International Research Conference on the History of Computing
Otros Autores: Metropolis, N. (Nicholas), 1915-1999, Howlett, J. (Jack), 1912-, Rota, Gian-Carlo, 1932-1999
Formato: Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Academic Press, 1980
New York ; London : 1980.
Temas:
Computers > History.
Electronic data processing > History.
Computers > History > Congresses.
Electronic data processing > History > Congresses.
Ordinateurs > Histoire > Congr�es.
Informatique > Histoire > Congr�es.
Ordinateurs > Histoire.
Computers.
Electronic data processing.
Datenverarbeitung
Geschichte
Informatik
Kongress
Ciencia Da Computacao Ou Informatica.
Computer systems, to 1975 - Conference proceedings
History
Congress
Kongre� > Los Alamos (NM) > 1976
Conference papers and proceedings.
History.
Actes de congr�es.
Los Alamos (NM, 1976)
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. Introduction
  • We would know what they thought when they did it / R.W. Hamming
  • Historiography: a perspective for computer scientists / Kenneth O. May
  • Part II. The human side
  • Computer developments 1935-1955, as seen from Cambridge, U.S.A. / Garrett Birkhoff
  • Pioneering work on computers at Bletchley / I.J. Good
  • The COLOSSUS / B. Randell
  • Von Neumann: the interaction of mathematics and computing / S.M. Ulam
  • Turing's work at the National Physical Laboratory and the construction of Pilot ACE, DEUCE, and ACE / J.H. Wilkinson
  • The Smithsonian computer history project and some personal recollections / Henry S. Tropp
  • Part III. The languages
  • Programming in America in the 1950s: some personal impressions / John Backus
  • The early development of programming in the USSR / Andrei P. Ershov and Mikhail R. Shura-Bura
  • The early development of programming languages / Donald E. Knuth and Luis Trabb Pardo
  • Reflections on the evolution of algorithmic language / Mark B. Wells
  • Part IV. The machines
  • Computer development at the Institute for Advanced Study / Julian Bigelow
  • From ENIAC to the stored-program computer: two revolutions in computers / Arthur W. Burks
  • Computer development at Argonne National Laboratory / J.C. Chu
  • The ORDVAC and the ILLIAC / James E. Robertson
  • WHIRLWIND / Robert R. Everett
  • Reminiscences of Oak Ridge / A.S. Householder
  • Computer development at IBM / Cuthbert C. Hurd
  • The SWAC: the National Bureau of Weather Standards Western Automatic Computer / Harry D. Huskey
  • Computer development at Manchester University / S.H. Lavington
  • A history of the sieve process / D.H. Lehmer
  • The MANIAC / N. Metropolis
  • Early research on computers at RCA / Jan Rajchman
  • Memories of the Bureau of Standards' SEAC / Ralph J. Slutz
  • Early computers / George R. Stibitz
  • The start of an ERA: Engineering Research Associates, Inc., 1946-1955 / Erwin Tomash
  • Early programming development in Cambridge / M.V. Wilkes
  • Part V. The places
  • Between Zuse and Rutishauser: the early development of digital computing in central Europe / Friedrich L. Bauer
  • The ENIAC / J. Presper Eckert, Jr.
  • The ENIAC / John W. Mauchly
  • Computers in the University of London, 1945-1962 / Andrew D. Booth
  • A programmer's early memories / Edsger W. Dijkstra
  • Early history of computing in Japan / Ryota Suekane
  • From mechanical linkages to electronic computers: recollections from Czechoslovakia / Antonin Svoboda
  • Central European prehistory of computing / H. Zemanek
  • Some remarks on the history of computing in Germany / Konrad Zuse
  • The origins of digital computers: supplementary bibliography / B. Randell.

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