Landmarks In Digital Computing

Author : Peggy Aldrich Kidwell
Publisher : Smithsonian Books (DC)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Landmarks in Digital Computing written by Peggy Aldrich Kidwell and published by Smithsonian Books (DC). This book was released on 1994 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a fascinating visual record of the milestones in digital computing, this illustrated volume discusses the social and economic impact of each of the 40-plus significant benchmarks highlighted, from the ancient abacus to the SUN workstation. (Computers/General)

Author : Petrina Foti
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351174320
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collecting and Exhibiting Computer-Based Technology written by Petrina Foti and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-11-05 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Computer technology has transformed modern society, yet curators wishing to reflect those changes face difficult challenges in terms of both collecting and exhibiting. Collecting and Exhibiting Computer-Based Technology examines how curators at the history and technology museums of the Smithsonian Institution have met these challenges. Focusing on the curatorial process, the book explores the ways in which curators at the institution have approached the accession and display of technological artifacts. Such collections often have comparatively few precedents, and can pose unique dilemmas. In analysing the Smithsonian’s approach, Foti takes in diverse collection case studies ranging from DNA analyzers to Herbie Hancock’s music synthesizers, from iPods to born-digital photographs, from the laptop used during the filming of the television program Sex and the City to "Stanley" the self-driving car. Using her proposed model of "expert curation", she synthesizes her findings into a more universal framework for undertanding the curatorial methods associated with computer technology and reflects on what it means to be a curator in a postdigital world. Collecting and Exhibiting Computer-Based Technology offers a detailed analysis of curatorial practice in a relatively new field that is set to grow exponentially. It will be useful reading for curators, scholars, and students alike.

Author : Lawrence J. McCrank
Publisher : Information Today, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781573870719
Total Pages : 1216 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historical Information Science written by Lawrence J. McCrank and published by Information Today, Inc.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 1216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical Information Science is an extensive review and bibliographic essay, backed by almost 6,000 citations, detailing developments in information technology since the advent of personal computers and the convergence of several social science and humanities disciplines in historical computing. Its focus is on the access, preservation, and analysis of historical information (primarily in electronic form) and the relationships between new methodology and instructional media, techniques, and research trends in library special collections, digital libraries, data archives, and museums.

Author : Aristotle Tympas
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1848827423
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Calculation and Computation in the Pre-electronic Era written by Aristotle Tympas and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although it is popularly assumed that the history of computing before the second half of the 20th century was unimportant, in fact the Industrial Revolution was made possible and even sustained by a parallel revolution in computing technology. An examination and historiographical assessment of key developments helps to show how the era of modern electronic computing proceeded from a continual computing revolution that had arisen during the mechanical and the electrical ages. This unique volume introduces the history of computing during the “first” (steam) and “second” (electricity) segments of the Industrial Revolution, revealing how this history was pivotal to the emergence of electronic computing and what many historians see as signifying a shift to a post-industrial society. It delves into critical developments before the electronic era, focusing on those of the mechanical era (from the emergence of the steam engine to that of the electric power network) and the electrical era (from the emergence of the electric power network to that of electronic computing). In so doing, it provides due attention to the demarcations between—and associated classifications of—artifacts for calculation during these respective eras. In turn, it emphasizes the history of comparisons between these artifacts. Topics and Features: motivates exposition through a firm historiographical argument of important developments explores the history of the slide rule and its use in the context of electrification examines the roles of analyzers, graphs, and a whole range of computing artifacts hitherto placed under the allegedly inferior class of analog computers shows how the analog and the digital are really inseparable, with perceptions thereof depending on either a full or a restricted view of the computing process investigates socially situated comparisons of computing history, including the effects of a political economy of computing (one that takes into account cost and ownership of computing artifacts) assesses concealment of analog-machine labor through encasement (“black-boxing”) Historians of computing, as well as those of technology and science (especially, energy), will find this well-argued and presented history of calculation and computation in the mechanical and electrical eras an indispensable resource. The work is a natural textbook companion for history of computing courses, and will also appeal to the broader readership of curious computer scientists and engineers, as well as those who generally just have a yearn to learn the contextual background to the current digital age. "In this fascinating, original work, Tympas indispensably intertwines the histories of analog and digital computing, showing them to be inseparable from the evolution of social and economic conditions. " Prof. David Mindell, MIT

Author : Kim W. Tracy
Publisher : Morgan & Claypool
ISBN 13 : 1450387276
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Software written by Kim W. Tracy and published by Morgan & Claypool. This book was released on 2021-09-20 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Software history has a deep impact on current software designers, computer scientists, and technologists. System constraints imposed in the past and the designs that responded to them are often unknown or poorly understood by students and practitioners, yet modern software systems often include “old” software and “historical” programming techniques. This work looks at software history through specific software areas to develop student-consumable practices, design principles, lessons learned, and trends useful in current and future software design. It also exposes key areas that are widely used in modern software, yet infrequently taught in computing programs. Written as a textbook, this book uses specific cases from the past and present to explore the impact of software trends and techniques. Building on concepts from the history of science and technology, software history examines such areas as fundamentals, operating systems, programming languages, programming environments, networking, and databases. These topics are covered from their earliest beginnings to their modern variants. There are focused case studies on UNIX, APL, SAGE, GNU Emacs, Autoflow, internet protocols, System R, and others. Extensive problems and suggested projects enable readers to deeply delve into the history of software in areas that interest them most.

Author : Scott Mueller
Publisher : Que Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780789727459
Total Pages : 1656 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Upgrading and Repairing PCs written by Scott Mueller and published by Que Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 1656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the newest comprehensive update to the world's #1 guide to PC repair and maintenance. World-renowned PC hardware expert Scott Mueller has thoroughly updated his legendary "Upgrading and Repairing PCs to reflect today's latest PC technologies, and added a new DVD with more than two hours of digital video demonstrating PC maintenance and repair, which can be watched on either their DVD-equipped PCs or any DVD player. Mueller presents updated coverage of every significant PC component: processors, motherboards, memory, the BIOS, IDE and SCSI interfaces, drives, removable and optical storage, video and audio hardware, USB, FireWire, Internet connectivity, LANs, power supplies, even PC cases. This book also contains a detailed troubleshooting index designed to help readers rapidly diagnose more than 250 common PC hardware problems, as well as an extensive vendor contact guide, and a comprehensive PC technical glossary.

Author : Jerry J. Sweet
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9780306435508
Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings written by Jerry J. Sweet and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1991-04-30 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For two decades, I have been responding to questions about the nature of health psychology and how it differs from medical psychology, behavioral medicine, and clinical psychology. From the beginning, I have taken the position that any applica tion of psychological theory or practice to problems and issues of the health system is health psychology. I have repeatedly used an analogy to Newell and Simon's "General Problem Solver" program of the late 1950s and early 1960s, which had two major functional parts, in addition to the "executive" component. One was the "problem-solving core" (the procedural competence); the other was the representa tion of the "problem environment. " In the analogy, the concepts, knowledge, and techniques of psychology constitute the core competence; the health system in all its complexity is the problem environment. A health psychologist is one whose basic competence in psychology is augmented by a working knowledge of some aspect of the health system. Quite apparently, there are functionally distinct aspects of health psychology to the degree that there are meaningful subdivisions in psychological competence and significantly different microenvironments within the health system. I hesitate to refer to them as areas of specialization, as the man who gave health psychology its formal definition, Joseph Matarazzo, has said that there are no specialties in psychology (cited in the editors' preface to this book).

Author : Julio Abascal
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319227238
Total Pages : 686 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2015 written by Julio Abascal and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-08-31 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The four-volume set LNCS 9296-9299 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, INTERACT 2015, held in Bamberg, Germany, in September 2015. The 74 full and short papers and 4 organizational overviews, 2 panels, 6 tutorials, and 11 workshops included in the fourth volume are organized in topical sections on tangible and tactile interaction; tools for design; touch and haptic; user and task modelling; visualization; visualization 3D; visualization in virtual spaces; wearable computing; demonstrations; and interactive posters.

Author : Kohei Arai
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030177955
Total Pages : 821 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Advances in Computer Vision written by Kohei Arai and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 821 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a remarkable collection of chapters covering a wide range of topics in the areas of Computer Vision, both from theoretical and application perspectives. It gathers the proceedings of the Computer Vision Conference (CVC 2019), held in Las Vegas, USA from May 2 to 3, 2019. The conference attracted a total of 371 submissions from pioneering researchers, scientists, industrial engineers, and students all around the world. These submissions underwent a double-blind peer review process, after which 120 (including 7 poster papers) were selected for inclusion in these proceedings. The book’s goal is to reflect the intellectual breadth and depth of current research on computer vision, from classical to intelligent scope. Accordingly, its respective chapters address state-of-the-art intelligent methods and techniques for solving real-world problems, while also outlining future research directions. Topic areas covered include Machine Vision and Learning, Data Science, Image Processing, Deep Learning, and Computer Vision Applications.

Author : Pochi Yeh
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9789810214432
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Landmark Papers on Photorefractive Nonlinear Optics written by Pochi Yeh and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1995 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, intended for students, researchers and engineers, is a collection of classic papers on photorefractive nonlinear optics. Included are landmark papers on fundamental photorefractive phenomena, two-wave mixing, four-wave mixing, phase conjugators and resonators, material growth and physics, and applications in image processing, optical storage and optical computing.