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100	1		_aCeruzzi, Paul E., _eauthor. _921545
245	1	0	_aComputing : _ba concise history / _cPaul E. Ceruzzi.
246	3		_aComputing : a concise history
264		1	_aCambridge, Massachusetts : _bMIT Press, _cc2012.
264		2	_a[Piscataqay, New Jersey] : _bIEEE Xplore, _c[2012]
300			_a1 PDF (175 pages).
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aelectronic _2isbdmedia
338			_aonline resource _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aThe MIT Press essential knowledge series
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
506	1		_aRestricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers.
520			_aThe 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.
530			_aAlso available in print.
538			_aMode of access: World Wide Web
588			_aDescription based on PDF viewed 12/23/2015.
650		0	_aComputer science _xHistory. _923417
655		0	_aElectronic books. _93294
710	2		_aIEEE Xplore (Online Service), _edistributor. _923418
710	2		_aMIT Press, _epublisher. _923419
776	0	8	_iPrint version _z9780262517676
830		0	_aThe MIT Press essential knowledge series _923420
856	4	2	_3Abstract with links to resource _uhttps://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/bkabstractplus.jsp?bkn=6267552
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