Computing : (Record no. 73205)
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| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER | |
| control field | 6267552 |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20220712204737.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 151223s2012 mau ob 001 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9780262310383 |
| -- | electronic |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| -- | paperback : alk. paper |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| -- | paperback : alk. paper |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| -- | electronic |
| 082 04 - CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Call Number | 004 |
| 100 1# - AUTHOR NAME | |
| Author | Ceruzzi, Paul E., |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Computing : |
| Sub Title | a concise history / |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | 1 PDF (175 pages). |
| 490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | The MIT Press essential knowledge series |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | The history of computing could be told as the story of hardware and software, or the story of the Internet, or the story of "smart" hand-held devices, with subplots involving IBM, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, and Twitter. In this concise and accessible account of the invention and development of digital technology, computer historian Paul Ceruzzi offers a broader and more useful perspective. He identifies four major threads that run throughout all of computing's technological development: digitization--the coding of information, computation, and control in binary form, ones and zeros; the convergence of multiple streams of techniques, devices, and machines, yielding more than the sum of their parts; the steady advance of electronic technology, as characterized famously by "Moore's Law"; and the human-machine interface. Ceruzzi guides us through computing history, telling how a Bell Labs mathematician coined the word "digital" in 1942 (to describe a high-speed method of calculating used in anti-aircraft devices), and recounting the development of the punch card (for use in the 1890 U.S. Census). He describes the ENIAC, built for scientific and military applications; the UNIVAC, the first general purpose computer; and ARPANET, the Internet's precursor. Ceruzzi's account traces the world-changing evolution of the computer from a room-size ensemble of machinery to a "minicomputer" to a desktop computer to a pocket-sized smart phone. He describes the development of the silicon chip, which could store ever-increasing amounts of data and enabled ever-decreasing device size. He visits that hotbed of innovation, Silicon Valley, and brings the story up to the present with the Internet, the World Wide Web, and social networking. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1 | |
| General subdivision | History. |
| 856 42 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/bkabstractplus.jsp?bkn=6267552 |
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| Koha item type | eBooks |
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| -- | Cambridge, Massachusetts : |
| -- | MIT Press, |
| -- | c2012. |
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| -- | [Piscataqay, New Jersey] : |
| -- | IEEE Xplore, |
| -- | [2012] |
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| -- | text |
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| -- | electronic |
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| -- | online resource |
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| -- | Description based on PDF viewed 12/23/2015. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1 | |
| -- | Computer science |
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