Proceedings of a Symposium on Large-Scale Digital Calculating Machinery (Charles Babbage Institute Reprint) (The Charles Babbage Institute Reprint Series for the History of Computing, V. 7) - Hardcover

Symposium On Large-Scale Digital Calculating Machinery; Harvard Computation Laboratory

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ISBN 10: 0262081520 ISBN 13: 9780262081528

Publisher: Mit Pr, 1985

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In January 1947, the Navy Department Bureau of Ordnance and Harvard University jointly sponsored a symposium at the Harvard Computation Laboratory on large-scale digital calculating machinery. It provided one of the first and most important early forums for discussion of the problems and approaches in the design, construction, operation, and application of computers. Coming before the establishment of professional journals, societies, or regular meetings in computer science, the proceedings...

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William Aspray is Bill and Lewis Suit Professor of Information Technologies in the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the coeditor of Women and Information Technology: Research on Underrepresentation (2006) and The Internet and American Business (2008), both published by the MIT Press.

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