Digital State : The Story of Minnesota's Computing Industry /

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"Accounts of the early events of the computing industry--the Turing machine, the massive Colossus, the ENIAC computer--are well-told tales, and equally well-known is the later emergence of Silicon Valley and the rise of the personal computer. Yet there is an extraordinary untold middle history-...

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Autor principal: Misa, Thomas J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Information technology.
Computer industry.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > General.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > History.
Technologie de l'information > Minnesota > Histoire.
Informatique > Industrie > Minnesota > Histoire.
Information technology > Minnesota > History.
Computer industry > Minnesota > History.
Minnesota.
Festschriften.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction: Minnesota Goes High-Tech; 1. Philadelphia Story: Wartime Origins of Minnesota Computing; 2. St. Paul Start-up: Engineering Research Associates Builds a Pioneering Computer; 3. Corporate Computing: Univac Creates a High-Tech Minnesota Industry; 4. Innovation Machine: Control Data's Supercomputers, Services, and Social Vision; 5. First Computer: Honeywell, Partnerships, and the Politics of Patents; 6. Big Blue: Manufacturing and Innovation at IBM Rochester; 7. Industrial Dynamics: Minnesota Embraces the Information Economy.
  • 8. High-Technology Innovation: Medical Devices and BeyondAppendix: Employment in Minnesota Computing, 1980-2011; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z.

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