History

In the 1970s, while their contemporaries were protesting the computer as a tool of dehumanization and oppression, a motley collection of college dropouts, hippies, and electronics fanatics were engaged in something much more subversive. Obsessed with the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781837910212Author John ScrivenFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Acorn Books LtdPublisher Andrews UK Limited

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789829617Author Bruce BayleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Acorn ClassicsPublisher Acorn ClassicsWeight(grams) 308gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

A comprehensive history of data visualization-its origins, rise, and effects on the ways we think about and solve problems.With complex information everywhere, graphics have become indispensable to our daily lives. Navigation apps show real-time,...

The Untold Story of Everything Digital: Bright Boys, Revisited celebrates the 70th anniversary (1949-2019) of the world "going digital" for the very first time-real-time digital computing's genesis story. That genesis story is taken from the 2010 edition...

Secret wartime projects in code-breaking, radar and ballistics produced a wealth of ideas and technologies that kick-started the development of digital computers. This is the story of the people and projects that flourished in the post-war period. By...

Women have played a vital role in the development of computing, although at times their participation has gone unrecognised. Their scholarly inventiveness and discoveries have provided a rich tapestry to add to the evolution of computer science in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732355217Author Jamie LendinoFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Steel Gear PressPublisher Steel Gear PressWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789829440Author Danny DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Acorn BooksPublisher Acorn BooksWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 12mm

Narrating some lesser known episodes from the deep history of digital machines, Alexander R. Galloway explains the technology that drives the world today, and the fascinating people who brought these machines to life. With an eye to both the computable...

"You can print from an iPhone(R). It's the dumbest thing." - Bo Fahs, writer and host of Tele-Friends From the moment we began to digitise our world, we created machines that worked tirelessly to pull all that information zooming around back to the...

A revealing genealogy of image-recognition techniques and technologies Today's most advanced neural networks and sophisticated image-analysis methods come from 1950s and '60s Cold War culture-and many biases and ways of understanding the world from that...

Floppy Disk Fever explores the curious afterlives of the floppy disk in the twenty-first century by interviewing those involved with the medium today. The book reflects on notions of obsolescence, media preservation and nostalgia, and challenges...

A Next Big Idea Club "Must Read" for December 2023 As all aspects of our social and informational lives increasingly migrate online, the line between what is "real" and what is digitally fabricated grows ever thinner—and that fake content has undeniable...

The New Kingmakers documents the rise of the developer class, and provides strategies for companies to adapt to the new technology landscape. From recruiting to retention, it provides a playbook to work more efficiently and effectively with the most...

The story of the evolution of machines in computer history is full of the disruptive innovations that have led to today’s world. From the early beginnings of computing to the bulky mainframe to the personal computer era, we now live in an almost entirely...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262547826Author James W. CortadaFormat PaperbackPage Count 752Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 852gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992777418Author Matt NicholsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Matt PublishingPublisher Matt Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684856216Author Michael WolffFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 350gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Hackers know everything about us. We know almost nothing about them. Until now. The hacker now known as Alien entered MIT in 1998, intending to major in aerospace engineering. Almost immediately, she was recruited to join a secret student group scaling...

Computer: A History of the Information Machine traces the history of the computer and its unlimited, information-processing potential.Comprehensive and accessibly written, this fully updated fourth edition adds new chapters on the globalization of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541762367Author Joseph MennFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint PublicAffairs,U.S.Publisher PublicAffairs,U.S.

As lives offline and online merge even more, it is easy to forget how we got here. Rise of the Machines reclaims the spectacular story of cybernetics, one of the twentieth century's pivotal ideas. Springing from the mind of mathematician Norbert Wiener...

A History of the Internet and the Digital Future tells the story of the development of the Internet from the 1950s to the present, and examines how the balance of power has shifted between the individual and the state in the areas of censorship,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262542456Author Alvy Ray SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 536Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

The untold story about how the internet became social, and why this matters for its future Fifteen years before the commercialization of the internet, millions of amateurs across North America created more than 100,000 small-scale computer networks...

This book offers a journey into the history of pioneering Israeli women in electronic computing and explores the impact these women had on the annals of Israeli computing history. With the primary setting being the Weizmann Institute of Science, where...

Breaking through Bytes: Women Shaping the Digital World celebrates the indomitable spirit of women who redefined technology. Divided into 9 iconic chapters, the book provides vivid portraits of 18 female pioneers who cracked the digital code, women who...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262548823Author Zabet PattersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 454g

In 1977 Brazil initiated the market reserve policy to protect and reserve its domestic market for its own computer manufacturing companies. The basic assumptions on which its plans rested were fatally flawed, however, and the experiment failed to a large...

Hacking Europe traces the user practices of chopping games in Warsaw, hacking software in Athens, creating chaos in Hamburg, producing demos in Turku, and partying with computing in Zagreb and Amsterdam. Focusing on several European countries at the end...

This textbook presents a fascinating review of cryptography and cryptanalysis, from the earliest known cryptographic systems of 2,500 years ago up to modern computer-based systems. The text relates the earliest use of the monoalphabetic cipher in the...

Recent developments in computer technology are providing historians with new ways to see-and seek to hear, touch, or smell-traces of the past. Place-based augmented reality applications are an increasingly common feature at heritage sites and museums,...

In 1950, Alan Turing, the British mathematician, cryptographer, and computer pioneer, looked to the future: now that the conceptual and technical parameters for electronic brains had been established, what kind of intelligence could be built? Should...

This book provides the first in-depth analysis of how four innovative Chinese electronics enterprises-the Stone Group, the Legend Computer Group, the Founder Group, and the China Great Wall Computer Group-transformed the Chinese computer industry over...

Digital pirates, particularly in China, steal and resell hundreds of billions of dollars worth of intellectual property each year. CRACK99 is an edge-of-the-seat account of the United States Justice Department's prosecution of the biggest cybercriminal...

The Routledge Companion to Global Internet Histories brings together research on the diverse Internet histories that have evolved in different regions, language cultures and social contexts across the globe. While the Internet is now in its fifth decade,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Winner, 2014 Computer History Museum Prize, awarded by the Society for the History of Technology 2014.Book InformationISBN 9780262534536Author Janet AbbateFormat...

An engrossing origin story for the personal computer-showing how the Apple II's software helped a machine transcend from hobbyists' plaything to essential home appliance. Skip the iPhone, the iPod, and the Macintosh. If you want to understand how Apple...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789829433Author Danny DavisFormat HardbackPage Count 204Imprint Acorn BooksPublisher Acorn BooksWeight(grams) 472g