History

This volume provides a history of the computer which now comes properly up to the ubiquitous age, with new chapters that look at globalization, platformitization and regulation, allowing readers to engage with the more recent takeover by computers in...

Hidden and Devalued Feminized Labour in the Digital Humanities examines the data-driven labour that underpinned the Index Thomisticus-a preeminent project of the incunabular digital humanities-and advanced the data-foundations of computing in the...

Hidden and Devalued Feminized Labour in the Digital Humanities examines the data-driven labour that underpinned the Index Thomisticus-a preeminent project of the incunabular digital humanities-and advanced the data-foundations of computing in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316546249Author Brian MerchantFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Back Bay BooksWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 140mm...

This book examines the unfolding cultural and organizational impact of computers on human society. Through this analysis, it discusses the role of information technology in people's lives, interdependence between the society and its computer creations,...

Cryptology, the mathematical and technical science of ciphers and codes, and philology, the humanistic study of natural or human languages, are typically understood as separate domains of activity. But Brian Lennon contends that these two domains, both...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374601171Author Scott J ShapiroFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

In Go To, Steve Lohr chronicles the history of software from the early days of complex mathematical codes mastered by a few thousand to today's era of user-friendly software and over six million professional programmers worldwide. Lohr maps out the...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953645036Author Don JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Don Gannon-JonesPublisher Don Gannon-JonesWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2013 2013 and CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2013 2013.Book InformationISBN 9780262528405Author Tom SitoFormat...

A deep dive into the political roots of advertising on the internet The contemporary internet's de facto business model is one of surveillance. Browser cookies follow us around the web, Amazon targets us with eerily prescient ads, Facebook and Google...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952809033Author Richard BejtlichFormat PaperbackPage Count 430Imprint Taosecurity LLCPublisher Taosecurity LLCWeight(grams) 494gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

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...

Inventing the PC details the invention and design of the MCM/70 computer and the prolonged struggle to bring it to market. Zbigniew Stachniak offers an insider's view of events on the front lines of pioneering work on personal computers. He shows what...

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 9780262549387Author Honghong TinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 456Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

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Modern information technology permeates and transforms our world-far more intensely than most of us realize. The book describes its origin, history, and essential drivers. It elaborates on the substantial importance the new world power of IT has gained...

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...