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	Browse All Reviews > Computing Milieux (K) > History of Computing (K.2) > People (K.2...)     Options: All Media Types Journals Proceedings Div Books Whole Books Other Date Reviewed Title Author Publisher Published Date Descending Ascending     1-10 of 32 Reviews about "People (K.2...)": Date Reviewed    Edsger Wybe Dijkstra: his life, work, and legacy Apt K., Hoare T., ACM, New York, NY, 2022. 576 pp.  Type: Book (9781450397735) Tony Hoare nicely summarizes E. W. Dijkstra’s place in computing in chapter 25, “Forty Years with Edsger”:... Jun 10 2024   Idea makers: personal perspectives on the lives & ideas of some notable people Wolfram S., Wolfram Media Inc., Champaign, IL, 2016. 250 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-579550-03-5) We all know Stephen Wolfram as the creator of Mathematica. In this short book, he gives us his perspective on a number of people who have had an impact on computer science and, of course, on Wolfram. The size of these discussions is hi... Aug 23 2017   Female innovators at work: women on top of tech Newnham D., Apress, New York, NY, 2016. 216 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-484223-63-5) Newnham, founder of the Junto Network and other endeavors, has collected 20 interviews with women who have successful careers in technology and innovation. If you are looking for role models and inspiration, this is an excellent book.<... Jul 12 2017   Intertwingled: the work and influence of Ted Nelson Dechow D., Struppa D., Springer International Publishing, New York, NY, 2015. 150 pp.  Type: Book (978-3-319169-24-8) Over 40 years ago (1974), the computing world got a glimpse of the future with the publication of a very peculiar book--really two books in one, bound back-to-back with each side showing its front cover. It was author Ted Nels... Apr 29 2016   Lovelace & Babbage and the creation of the 1843 ‘notes’ Füegi J., Francis J. ACM Inroads 6(3): 78-86, 2015.  Type: Article This paper is a fascinating expansion of research into the history of computation that appeared in the documentary film To Dream Tomorrow, created by the paper’s two authors. Specifically, the authors look at documenta... Apr 19 2016   Giants of computing: a compendium of select, pivotal pioneers O’Regan G., Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated, London, UK, 2013. 298 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-447153-39-9) I found it quite difficult to give a “micro” review of this excellent book. The author has given us a mini-biography of 59 “giants” of computing, with a brief account of their major achievements.... Oct 29 2013    Pluralism in software engineering: Turing Award winner Peter Naur explains Daylight E., De Grave K., Lonely Scholar, Heverlee, Belgium, 2011. 134 pp.  Type: Book (978-9-491386-00-8) This book presents the transcript of an interesting, thought-provoking, and perhaps controversial interview with Peter Naur, conducted and very well prepared by Edgar G. Daylight. The interview included comments by Naur in response to ... Oct 22 2012   Robert Recorde: Tudor polymath, expositor and practitioner of computation Williams J., Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated, New York, NY, 2011. 288 pp.  Type: Book (978-0-857298-61-4) Robert Recorde was an English mathematician who lived in the first part of the 16th century. Since his work predates most computing devices, Recorde belongs in the history of computing only in the very broadest sense, that is, if we in... Mar 8 2012   Rainbow of computer science: dedicated to Hermann Maurer on the occasion of his 70th birthday (LNCS 6570) Calude C., Rozenberg G., Salomaa A. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2011.  Type: Divisible Book In the tradition of all Festschriften, this volume in tribute to Hermann Maurer collects short contributions on a variety of topics of particular relevance to the honoree. Given the diversity of Maurer’s published work, these... Dec 5 2011    Marshall McLuhan: You know nothing of my work! Coupland D., Atlas Books, New York, NY, 2010. 224 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-935633-16-7) When I found Coupland’s biography of Marshall McLuhan listed as an available book for self-assignment, I jumped at the chance to review it. (I had already started reading a copy of McLuhan’s 1964 book [1], which I f... Sep 30 2011       Display 510152550100 per page
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