Milestones In Analog And Digital Computing

Author : Herbert Bruderer
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030409740
Total Pages : 2072 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Milestones in Analog and Digital Computing written by Herbert Bruderer and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-01-04 with total page 2072 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Third Edition is the first English-language edition of the award-winning Meilensteine der Rechentechnik; illustrated in full color throughout in two volumes. The Third Edition is devoted to both analog and digital computing devices, as well as the world's most magnificient historical automatons and select scientific instruments (employed in astronomy, surveying, time measurement, etc.). It also features detailed instructions for analog and digital mechanical calculating machines and instruments, and is the only such historical book with comprehensive technical glossaries of terms not found in print or in online dictionaries. The book also includes a very extensive bibliography based on the literature of numerous countries around the world. Meticulously researched, the author conducted a worldwide survey of science, technology and art museums with their main holdings of analog and digital calculating and computing machines and devices, historical automatons and selected scientific instruments in order to describe a broad range of masterful technical achievements. Also covering the history of mathematics and computer science, this work documents the cultural heritage of technology as well.

Author : Bernd Ulmann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110787741
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Analog Computing written by Bernd Ulmann and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-11-07 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analog computing is one of the main pillars of Unconventional Computing. Almost forgotten for decades, we now see an ever-increasing interest in electronic analog computing because it offers a path to high-performance and highly energy-efficient computing. These characteristics are of great importance in a world where vast amounts of electric energy are consumed by today’s computer systems. Analog computing can deliver efficient solutions to many computing problems, ranging from general purpose analog computation to specialised systems like analog artificial neural networks. The book “Analog Computing” has established itself over the past decade as the standard textbook on the subject and has been substantially extended in this second edition, which includes more than 300 additional bibliographical entries, and has been expanded in many areas to include much greater detail. These enhancements will confirm this book’s status as the leading work in the field. It covers the history of analog computing from the Antikythera Mechanism to recent electronic analog computers and uses a wide variety of worked examples to provide a comprehensive introduction to programming analog computers. It also describes hybrid computers, digital differential analysers, the simulation of analog computers, stochastic computers, and provides a comprehensive treatment of classic and current analog computer applications. The last chapter looks into the promising future of analog computing.

Author : D. E. Hyndman
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 148313735X
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Analog and Hybrid Computing written by D. E. Hyndman and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analog and Hybrid Computing focuses on the operations of analog and hybrid computers. The book first outlines the history of computing devices that influenced the creation of analog and digital computers. The types of problems to be solved on computers, computing systems, and digital computers are discussed. The text looks at the theory and operation of electronic analog computers, including linear and non-linear computing units and use of analog computers as operational amplifiers. The monograph examines the preparation of problems to be deciphered on computers. Flow diagrams, methods of amplitude scaling, estimation of values and frequencies, and scaling of higher order equations are described. The text also looks at the organization of computers and checking of problem set-ups, including interconnection of units, control of problems, and setting of potentiometers. The book also discusses solutions of variable coefficient and nonlinear differential equations; simulation of linear transfer functions; and iterative operation of analog computers. The text offers information on hybrid computing, including hybrid computing systems, applications of hybrid computers, and a generation of hybrid computers. The book is a vital reference for readers interested in studying the operations of hybrid and analog computers.

Author : Thomas Haigh
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030021521
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exploring the Early Digital written by Thomas Haigh and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 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” as study of the “early digital” decenters the stored program computer, repositioning it as one of many digital technologies.

Author : Granino Arthur Korn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Electronic Analog and Hybrid Computers written by Granino Arthur Korn and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Introduce research and development workers to modern electronic analog computers, present up—to—date design information on hybrid analog—digital computing devices and systems, and to introduce improved computing techniques made possible by new, ultra—fast hybrid analog—digital computers.” -- Preface.

Author : Raúl Rojas
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031398769
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Konrad Zuse's Early Computers written by Raúl Rojas and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the historical development of the architectures of the first computers built by the German inventor Konrad Zuse in Berlin between 1936 and 1945. Zuse's machines are historically important because they anticipated many features of modern computers. Specifically, these include the separation of processor and memory, the ability to compute with floating-point numbers, a hardware architecture based on microprogramming of the instruction set, and a layered design with a high-level programming language on top. In fact, Zuse's early computers are closer to modern computers than the Harvard Mark I or ENIAC, two other contenders for the title of "world's first computer." The theoretical program first conceived by Zuse in 1936/37 was fulfilled with a series of machines built before and during World War II: the Z1, Z2, Z3, and Z4. Separate chapters deal with the architecture of each computer, culminating in the description of Plankalkül, the first proposal for a high-level programming language. Students of the sciences and practitioners of computer science should have no trouble following the material. The concise introductory summary sets the reader on the historical path to retrace this remarkable intellectual adventure.

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 : Arthur Tatnall
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319494635
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book International Communities of Invention and Innovation written by Arthur Tatnall and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-30 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains revised selected papers presented at the IFIP WG 9.7 International Conference on the History of Computing, HC 2016, held in Brooklyn, NY, USA, in May 2016. The 13 full papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics related to the history of computing and focus on the history of pre-existing relationships and communities that led to triumphs (and dead-ends) in the history of computing. This broad perspective helps to tell a more accurate story of important developments like the Internet and provide a better understanding of how to sponsor future invention and innovation. They reflect on histories that foreground the international community along four broad themes: invention, policy, infrastructure, and social history.

Author : Alexander Raschke
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030760200
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Logic, Computation and Rigorous Methods written by Alexander Raschke and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-06-04 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Festschrift was published in honor of Egon Börger on the occasion of his 75th birthday. It acknowledges Prof. Börger's inspiration as a scientist, author, mentor, and community organizer. Dedicated to a pioneer in the fields of logic and computer science, Egon Börger's research interests are unusual in scope, from programming languages to hardware architectures, software architectures, control systems, workflow and interaction patterns, business processes, web applications, and concurrent systems. The 18 invited contributions in this volume are by leading researchers in the areas of software engineering, programming languages, business information systems, and computer science logic.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Digital Computer Newsletter written by and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: