A Computer Perspective - Hardcover

Eames, Charles; Eames, Ray

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9780674156258: A Computer Perspective
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0674156250 ISBN 13: 9780674156258
Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1973

Synopsis

A Computer Perspective is an illustrated essay on the origins and first lines of development of the computer. The complex network of creative forces and social pressures that have produced the computer is personified here in the creators of instruments of computation, and their machines or tables; the inventors of mathematical or logical concepts and their applications; and the fabricators of practical devices to serve the immediate needs of government, commerce, engineering, and science.

The book is based on an exhibition conceived and assembled for International Business Machines Corporation. Like the exhibition, it is not a history in the narrow sense of a chronology of concepts and devices. Yet these pages actually display more true history (in relation to the computer) than many more conventional presentations of the development of science and technology.

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About the Author

I. Bernard Cohen, Victor S. Thomas Professor of the History of Science, Emeritus, at Harvard University, is one of the founders of the modern study of the history of science.

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Publisher
Harvard University Press
Publication date
1973
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0674156250
ISBN 13 
9780674156258
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
176
Editor
Fleck Glen
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