Exploring Early Digital (13 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 203 pp. Original boards. Near Fine. Table of contents (10 chapters) Introducing the Early Digital Thomas Haigh Pages 1-18 Inventing an Analog Past and a Digital Future in Computing Ronald R. Kline Pages 19-39 Forgotten Machines: The Need for a New Master Narrative Doron Swade Pages 41-68 Calvin Mooers, Zatocoding, and Early Research on Information Retrieval Paul E. Ceruzzi Pages 69-86 Switching the Engineer's Mind-Set to Boolean: Applying Shannon's Algebra to Control Circuits and Digital Computing (1938-1958) Maarten Bullynck Pages 87-99 The ENIAC Display: Insignia of a Digital Praxeology Tristan Thielmann Pages 101-116 The Evolution of Digital Computing Practice on the Cambridge University EDSAC, 1949-1951 Martin Campbell-Kelly Pages 117-134 The Media of Programming Mark Priestley, Thomas Haigh Pages 135-158 Foregrounding the Background: Business, Economics, Labor, and Government Policy as Shaping Forces in Early Digital Computing History William Aspray, Christopher Loughnane Pages 159-178 "The Man with a Micro-calculator": Digital Modernity and Late Soviet Computing Practices Ksenia Tatarchenko Pages 179-200.…

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Changes in the present challenge us to reinterpret the past, but historians have not yet come to grips with the convergence of computing, media, and communications technology. Today these things are inextricably intertwined, in technologies such as the smartphone and internet, in convergent industries, and in social practices. Yet they remain three distinct historical subfields, tilled by different groups of scholars using different tools. We often call this conglomeration the digital, recognizing its deep connection to the technology of digital computing. Unfortunately, interdisciplinary studies of digital practices, digital methods, or digital humanities have rarely been informed by deep engagement with the history of computing.Contributors to this volume have come together to reexamine an apparently familiar era in the history of computing through new lenses, exploring early digital computing and engineering practice as digital phenomena rather than as enginesof mathematics and logic. Most focus on the period 1945 to 1960, the era in which the first electronic digital computers were created and the computer industry began to develop. Because digitality is first and foremost a way of reading objects and encoding information within them, we are foregrounding topics that have until now been viewed as peripheral in the history of computing: betting odds calculators, card file systems, program and data storage, programmable calculators, and digital circuit design practices. Reconceptualizing the history of computing as study of the early digital decenters the stored program computer, repositioning it as one of many digital technologies. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Buch. Condition: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Changes in the present challenge us to reinterpret the past, but historians have not yet come to grips with the convergence of computing, media, and communications technology. Today these things are inextricably intertwined, in technologies such as the smartphone and internet, in convergent industries, and in social practices. Yet they remain three distinct historical subfields, tilled by different groups of scholars using different tools. We often call thisconglomeration 'the digital,' recognizingits deep connection to the technology of digital computing. Unfortunately, interdisciplinary studies of digital practices, digital methods, or digital humanities have rarely been informed by deep engagement with the history of computing.Contributors to this volume have come together to reexamine an apparently familiar era in the history of computingthrough new lenses, exploring early digital computing and engineering practice as digital phenomena rather than as enginesof mathematics and logic. Most focus on the period 1945 to 1960, the era in which the first electronic digital computers were created and the computer industry began to develop. Because digitality is first and foremost a way of reading objects and encoding information within them, we are foregrounding topics that have until now been viewed as peripheral in the history of computing: betting odds calculators, card file systems, program and data storage, programmable calculators, and digital circuit design practices.Reconceptualizing the 'history of computing' asstudy of the 'early digital' decentersthe stored program computer, repositioning it as one of many digital technologies. …

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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Changes in the present challenge us to reinterpret the past, but historians have not yet come to grips with the convergence of computing, media, and communications technology. Today these things are inextricably intertwined, in technologies such as the smartphone and internet, in convergent industries, and in social practices. Yet they remain three distinct historical subfields, tilled by different groups of scholars using different tools. We often call thisconglomeration 'the digital,' recognizingits deep connection to the technology of digital computing. Unfortunately, interdisciplinary studies of digital practices, digital methods, or digital humanities have rarely been informed by deep engagement with the history of computing.Contributors to this volume have come together to reexamine an apparently familiar era in the history of computingthrough new lenses, exploring early digital computing and engineering practice as digital phenomena rather than as engines of mathematics and logic. Most focus on the period 1945 to 1960, the era in which the first electronic digital computers were created and the computer industry began to develop. Because digitality is first and foremost a way of reading objects and encoding information within them, we are foregrounding topics that have until now been viewed as peripheral in the history of computing: betting odds calculators, card file systems, program and data storage, programmable calculators, and digital circuit design practices.Reconceptualizing the 'history of computing' asstudy of the 'early digital' decentersthe stored program computer, repositioning it as one of many digital technologies. 216 pp. Englisch.…

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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Changes in the present challenge us to reinterpret the past, but historians have not yet come to grips with the convergence of computing, media, and communications technology. Today these things are inextricably intertwined, in technologies such as the smartphone and internet, in convergent industries, and in social practices. Yet they remain three distinct historical subfields, tilled by different groups of scholars using different tools. We often call this conglomeration 'the digital,' recognizing its deep connection to the technology of digital computing. Unfortunately, interdisciplinary studies of digital practices, digital methods, or digital humanities have rarely been informed by deep engagement with the history of computing.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 216 pp. Englisch.…