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Paquette, Marc
Intelerad Medical Systems Incorporated
Montreal, Canada
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Now the chips are down: the BBC Micro
Gazzard A., The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2016. 224 pp. Type: Book (978-0-262034-03-6)
The BBC launched its Computer Literacy Project in 1982. This was one of the UK government’s initiatives to repair the country’s economic and political problems in the 1970s and 1980s. The BBC broadcast television an...
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Apr 26 2016 |
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 Peripheral vision: Bell Labs, the S-C 4020, and the origins of computer art
Patterson Z., The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2015. 152 pp. Type: Book (978-0-262029-52-0)
The Stromberg-Carlson 4020 microfilm recorder was a large, expensive computer peripheral. It combined digital tape storage, a cathode ray tube capable of vector graphics and crude character rendering, and a film camera. It was invented...
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Dec 1 2015 |
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Actually, Turing did not invent the computer
Haigh T. Communications of the ACM 57(1): 36-41, 2014. Type: Article
Haigh offers arguments that counter the promotion of Alan Turing as the inventor of the digital computer. The root of this claim from Turing’s promoters is his 1936 paper, “On computable numbers, with an application...
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Apr 2 2014 |
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Beginning C for Arduino: learn C programming for the Arduino
Purdum J., Apress, Berkeley, CA, 2012. 280 pp. Type: Book (978-1-430247-76-0)
This book ignores the hardware side of Arduino hacking to concentrate on the software side. In the introduction, the author explains that this is intentional: most other books on Arduino don’t cover this important aspect suff...
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Sep 11 2013 |
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Reflections on the history of computing: preserving memories and sharing stories
Tatnall A., Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated, New York, NY, 2012. 407 pp. Type: Book (978-3-642338-98-4)
Everyone knows the stories of the earliest digital computers and their inventors. The ENIAC, the Colossus, the Z3, and others share the distinction of being the earliest, but these machines are only the beginning....
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Feb 26 2013 |
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Once upon a pocket: programmable calculators from the late 1970s and early 1980s and the social networks around them
Ristanović D., Protić J. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 34(3): 55-66, 2012. Type: Article
This paper describes the ascendance of programmable scientific calculators in the late 1970s and early 1980s. These calculators made up a new class of computing devices: they were portable enough to fit in a (large) pocket and inexpens...
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Jan 16 2013 |
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Learn electronics with Arduino
Wilcher D., Apress, Berkeley, CA, 2012. 280 pp. Type: Book (978-1-430242-66-6)
While the title includes “Arduino,” this book is more loyal to the “electronics” part of the title. There is no shallow end in this swimming pool. The first chapter, ostensibly an introduction, i...
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Oct 24 2012 |
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Arduino and Kinect projects: design, build, blow their minds
Melgar E., Diez C., Apress, Berkeley, CA, 2012. 416 pp. Type: Book (978-1-430241-67-6)
The first three chapters of this book introduce Arduino, Kinect, and Processing. It is not included in the title, but Processing has a prominent role in this book. The Arduino integrated development environment (IDE) is based on Proces...
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Jun 14 2012 |
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Adopting open source software: a practical guide
Fitzgerald B., Kesan J., Russo B., Shaikh M., Succi G., The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2011. 192 pp. Type: Book (978-0-262516-35-8)
Five case studies of government organizations that have made a transition from proprietary, commercial software to open-source software are described in this book. Each of these organizations has its own reasons for implementing these ...
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May 17 2012 |
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Developing with Google App Engine
Ciurana E., Apress, Berkeley, CA, 2009. 164 pp. Type: Book (9781430218319)
Google App Engine is Google’s answer to cloud computing, where applications are served from remote computing services that can be inexpensively and seamlessly scaled for availability, performance, and capacity....
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