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A Computer Perspective is an illustrated essay on the origins and first lines of development of the computer. The complex network of creative forces and social pressures that have produced the computer is personified here in the creators of instruments of computation, and their machines or tables; the inventors of mathematical or logical concepts and their applications; and the fabricators of practical devices to serve the immediate needs of government, commerce, engineering, and science. The book is based on an exhibition conceived and assembled for International Business Machines (IBM) Corporation. Like the exhibition, it is not a history in the narrow sense of a chronology of concepts and devices. Yet these pages actually display more true history (in relation to the computer) than many more conventional presentations of the development of science and technology.Product Identifiers
PublisherHarvard University Press
ISBN-139780674156265
eBay Product ID (ePID)87570652
Product Key Features
Number of Pages176 Pages
Publication NameA Computer Perspective: Background to the Computer Age, New Edition
LanguageEnglish
SubjectComputer Science
Publication Year1990
TypeTextbook
AuthorRay Eames, Charles Eames
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height222 mm
Item Weight454 g
Additional Product Features
EditorGlen Fleck
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Title_AuthorRay Eames, Charles Eames