Kategoria BISAC: Computers >> History

Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years--as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues--Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal...

To examine, analyze, and manipulate a problem to the point of designing an algorithm for solving it is an exercise of fundamental value in many fields. With so many everyday activities governed by algorithmic principles, the power, precision, reliability and speed of execution demanded by users have transformed the design and construction of algorithms from a creative, artisanal activity into a full-fledged science in its own right. This book is aimed at all those who exploit the results of this new science, as designers and as consumers.

The first chapter is an overview of...

Der Band behandelt Grundfragen und zentrale Themen der Informatikgeschichte in Beitragen von herausragenden Pionieren, von in Theoriefragen engagierten Informatikern und namhaften Technikhistorikern. Der Band kreist um Leitideen und Paradigmen der Informatik, wobei die Visionen einer "Universalmaschine," einer "Universalsprache," eines "Universalmediums" und einer "Universalwissenschaft" sich leitmotivisch durch die Beitrage ziehen. Der Band lost sich von der engen Computergeschichte und arbeitet so bisher unterbelichtete Innovationsleistungen der deutschen und europaischen Informatik- und...

The impact on modern society made by the Internet is immeasurable. Yet some questioned "why anyone would want such a thing" when the idea was first introduced.

Part history, part memoir and part cultural study, "Network Geeks" charts the creation of the Internet and the establishment of the Internet Engineering Task Force, from the viewpoint of a self-proclaimed geek who witnessed these developments first-hand. With boundless enthusiasm and abundant humour, Brian Carpenter leads the reader on a journey from post-war Britain to post-millennium New Zealand, describing how the Internet grew...

In Cybernetic Revolutionaries, Eden Medina tells the history of two intersecting utopian visions, one political and one technological. The first was Chile's experiment with peaceful socialist change under Salvador Allende; the second was the simultaneous attempt to build a computer system that would manage Chile's economy. Neither vision was fully realized -- Allende's government ended with a violent military coup; the system, known as Project Cybersyn, was never completely implemented -- but they hold lessons for today about the relationship between technology and...