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  ENIAC in action: making and remaking the modern computer
Haigh T., Priestley M., Rope C., The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2016. 360 pp.  Type: Book (978-0-262033-98-5), Reviews: (4 of 4)

The history of the first Monte Carlo computer simulations was what got me interested in this book in the first place. Once I started reading it, I discovered how little I knew of the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC)...
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Sep 14 2016  
  ENIAC in action: making and remaking the modern computer
Haigh T., Priestley M., Rope C., The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2016. 360 pp.  Type: Book (978-0-262033-98-5), Reviews: (3 of 4)

In this volume, the actions surrounding ENIAC are important in understanding the making and remaking of the modern computer. As such, this is not simply a history per se but it features the circumstances, personalities, and ways in whi...
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Jul 28 2016  
  ENIAC in action: making and remaking the modern computer
Haigh T., Priestley M., Rope C., The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2016. 360 pp.  Type: Book (978-0-262033-98-5), Reviews: (2 of 4)

Who invented the digital computer? When I was in school, there was a simple answer: the computer was invented by Eckert and Mauchly, the creators of ENIAC. Lawsuits and scholarship have cast a shadow over this simple answer. Should Tur...
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Jun 29 2016  
  ENIAC in action: making and remaking the modern computer
Haigh T., Priestley M., Rope C., The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2016. 360 pp.  Type: Book (978-0-262033-98-5), Reviews: (1 of 4)

If you have ever wondered why a central processing unit’s (CPU’s) register is called an accumulator, consider ENIAC’s 20 accumulators. Each (rack-sized) one could store eight decimal digits. Working simila...
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May 25 2016  
  A science of operations: machines, logic and the invention of programming
Priestley M., Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated, New York, NY, 2011. 350 pp.  Type: Book

Priestley makes an important distinction in his book: that of unpacking programming from the hardware, which is an intriguing twist for the history of computing. This work will be of interest to programmers and computer scientists, as ...
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Nov 15 2011  

   
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