Engines of the Mind: The Evolution of the Computer from the Mainframes to Microprocessors
ISBN: 9780393314717 / Angielski / Miękka / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Now, in a lively and evenhanded account, Joel Shurkin introduces us to the often-feuding players and the discoveries that made the computer possible-from the first models to the creation of the chip and beyond. Here is the first full account of an invention that changed the world For this new paperback edition, Shurkin has added an epilogue and a new chapter on the latest milestones in the ongoing computer revolution.
Now, in a lively and evenhanded account, Joel Shurkin introduces us to the often-feuding players and the discoveries that made the computer possible-f...
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111,45 zł |
Digital McLuhan: A Guide to the Information Millennium
ISBN: 9780415192514 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Marshall McLuhan, whose insights about the impact of media have been compared in importance to the work of Darwin, Einstein, and Freud, died at the doorstep of the digital age in 1980. Paul Levinson - author of The Soft Edge - delves into the lessons McLuhan holds for the new millennium. This text highlights and explains the prophetic nature of McLuhan's theories. Levinson shows us why and how the Wired generation is now turning to McLuhan's work to better understand a global village in a digital age. We see how the Internet, in which every computer is a centre for producing as well as...
Marshall McLuhan, whose insights about the impact of media have been compared in importance to the work of Darwin, Einstein, and Freud, died at the do...
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658,75 zł |
Digital McLuhan: A Guide to the Information Millennium
ISBN: 9780415249911 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Marshall McLuhan died on the last day of 1980, on the doorstep of the personal computer revolution. Yet McLuhan's ideas anticipated a world of media in motion, and its impact on our lives on the dawn of the new millennium.
Paul Levinson examines why McLuhan's theories about media are more important to us today than when they were first written, and why the Wired generation is now turning to McLuhan's work to understand the global village in the digital age. Marshall McLuhan died on the last day of 1980, on the doorstep of the personal computer revolution. Yet McLuhan's ideas anticipated a world of media i...
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182,37 zł |
The Internet Depression
ISBN: 9780465043590 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Coming Internet Depression is the one book that offers a rational method for making the best of tech-driven economic downturns. Michael Mandel, the economist most renowned for predicting the New Economy of the 1990s, was one of the first to predict the next major economic event-a sharp, severe downturn that devastated the tech sector, sent the stock market plummeting, and wreaked havoc across the entire economy. Mandel describes how the very strengths that drive the New Economy -from the dominance of venture capital to the rapid pace of innovation to the flexibility of the work force-are...
The Coming Internet Depression is the one book that offers a rational method for making the best of tech-driven economic downturns. Michael Mandel, th...
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85,85 zł |
Information Technology: Agent of Change
ISBN: 9780521359252 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Information technology (IT) is a singularly pervasive field; its applications affect people in all walks of life as few technologies do. This nontechnical and realistic overview increases the reader's understanding of the capabilities and limitations of IT. A recognized authority on computers, Laver equips the reader with sufficient information to critically evaluate proposals for new IT uses. He examines the impact of IT in particular areas and assesses its influence on people and communities. The book concludes with an agenda for anyone interested in IT systems.
Information technology (IT) is a singularly pervasive field; its applications affect people in all walks of life as few technologies do. This nontechn...
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167,17 zł |
The Click: A memoir and lessons learned during the Great Internet Boom
ISBN: 9780595327843 / Angielski / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a story about an average employee who hit the Internet lottery. In 1996 David Sidor joined a 15-person start-up company at the beginning of the Internet boom in the mid 1990s, and over the next seven years he watched the evolution of an entire industry, while also experiencing first-hand a roller coaster ride filled with hard work, success, play, greed and panic. A true account of what it was really like during this incredible era has yet to be told--until now.
David Sidor, an account executive with one of the Internet era's premiere players, DoubleClick, recounts his inside story... This is a story about an average employee who hit the Internet lottery. In 1996 David Sidor joined a 15-person start-up company at the beginning of th...
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55,62 zł |
Microsoft Secrets: How the World's Most Powerful Company Creates Technology, Shapes Markets and Manages People
ISBN: 9780684855318 / Angielski / Miękka / 532 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Today, Microsoft commands the high ground of the information superhighway by owning the operating systems and basic applications programs that run on the world's 170 million computers. Beyond the unquestioned genius and vision of Bill Gates, what accounts for Microsofts astounding success?
Drawing on almost two years of on-site observation at Microsoft headquarters, eminent scientists Michael A. Cusumano and Richard W. Selby reveal many of Microsoft's innermost secrets. This inside report, based on forty in-depth interviews by authors who had access to confidential documents and project... Today, Microsoft commands the high ground of the information superhighway by owning the operating systems and basic applications programs that run on ...
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141,51 zł |
Quest for the Quantum Computer
ISBN: 9780684870045 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Taking readers to the cutting edge of physics, mathematics, and computer science, Julian Brown tells the dramatic story of the groundbreaking efforts to create a fundamentally new kind of computer that would be astronomically more powerful than today's machines. In 1998, a team of researchers announced they had produced the world's first quantum computer in a cup of chloroform. In fascinating, fully accessible detail, Brown explains the ideas that led up to this accomplishment and explores the mind-stretching implications of this leap into the bizarre world of quantum physics. The Quest...
Taking readers to the cutting edge of physics, mathematics, and computer science, Julian Brown tells the dramatic story of the groundbreaking efforts ...
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107,32 zł |
When Computers Were Human
ISBN: 9780691133829 / Angielski / Miękka / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Before Palm Pilots and iPods, PCs and laptops, the term "computer" referred to the people who did scientific calculations by hand. These workers were neither calculating geniuses nor idiot savants but knowledgeable people who, in other circumstances, might have become scientists in their own right. When Computers Were Human represents the first in-depth account of this little-known, 200-year epoch in the history of science and technology. Beginning with the story of his own grandmother, who was trained as a human computer, David Alan Grier provides a poignant... Before Palm Pilots and iPods, PCs and laptops, the term "computer" referred to the people who did scientific calculations by hand. These workers we... |
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274,17 zł |
Minds, Machines, and the Multiverse: The Quest for the Quantum Computer
ISBN: 9780743242639 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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111,45 zł |
The Computer Revolution: An Economic Perspective
ISBN: 9780815778974 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the 1980s and into this decade, U.S. businesses poured billions of dollars into computers and other information technology. Yet the productivity performance of the U.S. economy in the 1980s remained lackluster--especially in the service sector--leading many observers to suspect that companies were not getting their money's worth from these high-tech investments. At the same time, academic research found little evidence of a productivity payoff. But have the tables now turned? With an apparent improvement in productivity in recent years, much academic and popular opinion now suggests... During the 1980s and into this decade, U.S. businesses poured billions of dollars into computers and other information technology. Yet the producti... |
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101,29 zł |
Necessary but Not Sufficient
ISBN: 9780884271703 / Angielski / Miękka / 231 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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85,68 zł |
Essential Retro: The Vintage Technology Guide
ISBN: 9780973683813 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Join retrothing.com author James Grahame as he introduces you to some dazzling devices from years past. You'll encounter hundreds of vintage and neo-retro cameras, audio components, televisions, computers, video games, vehicles, toys, electronic musical instruments and mechanical gadgets. This is a fantastic opportunity to revisit a bygone age of elegant mechanics and hand-drawn design. Many brilliant old machines are hidden away in attics and garages throughout the world - forgotten movie cameras lie on dusty shelves beside obsolete computers and clever mechanical toys, all crying out to be...
Join retrothing.com author James Grahame as he introduces you to some dazzling devices from years past. You'll encounter hundreds of vintage and neo-r...
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107,95 zł |
Pioniere Der Informatik: Ihre Lebensgeschichte Im Interview
ISBN: 9783540648574 / Angielski / Twarda / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Funf Informatikpioniere aus Deutschland, Osterreich und der Schweiz, die die Entwicklung ihres Fachs durch Impulse und Kritik entscheidend gepragt haben, erzahlen ihr Leben vor dem Hintergrund der entstehenden Informatik. Der fruhe Bau elektronischer Rechenanlagen wird dabei ebenso angesprochen wie das Entstehen von Programmiersprachen oder die Etablierung der Disziplin. In den Gesprachen geht es weniger darum, aussergewohnliche Ereignisse oder Biographien herauszustellen, als vielmehr die Informatik in die Zeitgeschichte und die Lebensumstande des einzelnen einzubetten. Es zeigt sich, dass...
Funf Informatikpioniere aus Deutschland, Osterreich und der Schweiz, die die Entwicklung ihres Fachs durch Impulse und Kritik entscheidend gepragt hab...
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109,33 zł |
F'd Companies: Spectacular Dot-Com Flameouts
ISBN: 9781416577935 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Not long ago, the world was awash with venture capital in search of the next Yahoo or Amazon.com. No product, no experience, no technology, no business plan -- no problem. You could still get $40 million from investors to start up your dot-com. And you could get people to work around the clock for stock options and the promise of millions. Then, around April 2000, it all came crashing down. Smart investors, esteemed analysts, and the business press found themselves asking:
Not long ago, the world was awash with venture capital in search of the next Yahoo or Amazon.com. No product, no experience, no technology, no busine...
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68,50 zł |
The Internet Imaginaire
ISBN: 9780262562386 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In The Internet Imaginaire, sociologist Patrice Flichy examines the collective vision that shaped the emergence of the Internet -- the social imagination that envisioned a technological utopia in the birth of a new technology. By examining in detail the discourses surrounding the development of the Internet in the United States in the 1990s (and considering them an integral part of that development), Flichy shows how an entire society began a new technological era. The metaphorical "information superhighway" became a technical utopia that informed a technological program. The... In The Internet Imaginaire, sociologist Patrice Flichy examines the collective vision that shaped the emergence of the Internet -- the socia... |
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156,61 zł |
Wikipedia Reader's Guide: The Missing Manual: The Missing Manual
ISBN: 9780596521745 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. You don't have to understand how to edit Wikipedia in order to find the information you need and join the conversation. This booklet gives you just what you need to know in friendly, concise form so you can research any subject without getting lost in Wikipedia's labyrinth. With it, you'll be able to unlock the mysteries of the many links on every Wikipedia page and the sometimes cryptic buzzwords you see on Talk pages. You don't have to understand how to edit Wikipedia in order to find the information you need and join the conversation. This booklet gives you just... |
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42,90 zł |
Information Technology as Business History: Issues in the History and Management of Computers
ISBN: 9780313299506 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This comprehensive overview of the history of computing and its industry, and of commercial applications of the computer also outlines the history of how computing operations were managed within American companies. Based on extensive research in the contemporary business literature, this work is one of the few which looks at computing as business history, and it is the first to look at the broad scope of computing from the perspective of the business historian. The work is also directed at business managers to help them appreciate and understand the uses of the computer in their firms.
This comprehensive overview of the history of computing and its industry, and of commercial applications of the computer also outlines the history ... |
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577,47 zł |
New Industries from New Places: The Emergence of the Hardware and Software Industries in China and India
ISBN: 9780804762809 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Software comes from India, hardware comes from China. Why is that? Why did China and India take such different paths to global dominance in new high-tech industries? Will their paths continue to diverge or converge? How can other countries learn from their successes - and failures - in reaching global scale in new industries? To answer these questions, this book presents the first rigorous comparison of the growth of the IT industries in China and India, based on interviews with over 300 companies. It explains the different growth paths of the software and hardware sectors in each country,...
Software comes from India, hardware comes from China. Why is that? Why did China and India take such different paths to global dominance in new high-t...
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913,87 zł |
New Industries from New Places: The Emergence of the Software and Hardware Industries in China and India
ISBN: 9780804762816 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Software comes from India, hardware comes from China. Why is that? Why did China and India take such different paths to global dominance in new high-tech industries? Will their paths continue to diverge or converge? How can other countries learn from their successes--and failures--in reaching global scale in new industries? To answer these questions, this book presents the first rigorous comparison of the growth of the IT industries in China and India, based on interviews with over 300 companies. It explains the different growth paths of the software and hardware sectors in each country,...
Software comes from India, hardware comes from China. Why is that? Why did China and India take such different paths to global dominance in new high-t...
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171,78 zł |