Acknowledgments Becoming Universal: Introducing A New History of Computing 1. Inventing the Computer 2. The Computer Becomes a Scientific Supertool 3. The Computer Becomes a Data Processing Device 4. The Computer Becomes a Real-Time Control System 5. The Computer Becomes an Interactive Tool 6. The Computer Becomes a Communications Platform 7. The Computer Becomes a Personal Plaything 8. The Computer Becomes Office Equipment 9. The Computer Becomes a Graphical Tool 10. The PC Becomes a Minicomputer 11. The Computer Becomes a Universal Media Device 12. The Computer Becomes a Publishing Platform 13. The Computer Becomes a Network 14. The Computer is Everywhere and Nowhere 15. Epilogue: A Tesla in the Valley Notes Bibliography Index
Thomas Haigh is Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Comenius Visiting Professor at the University of Siegen, and the coauthor of ENIAC in Action: Making and Remaking the Modern Computer (MIT Press). Paul E. Ceruzzi is Curator Emeritus at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum and the author of Internet Alley: High Technology in Tysons Corner,1945 2005, Computing: A Concise History (both published by the MIT Press), and other books.