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Reviews about "Systems (K.2...)":
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Technology in the political landscape
McDonald C. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 32(2): 87-88, 2010. Type: Article
McDonald has written an interesting article that primarily traces the development of videotex, which was a success in France but not in the US, and the contributing factors for both outcomes. However, the author takes a very wide defin...
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Jan 20 2011 |
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Kleinrock on nomadic computing
Ubiquity 6(25): 1-1, 2005. Type: Article
This interview with Leonard Kleinrock is split into two equally sized parts. The first part covers the history and roots of packet-switching networks and Kleinrock’s involvement in the field in the late 1950s and 1960s. The i...
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Nov 18 2005 |
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Prefiguring cyberculture: an intellectual history
Tofts D., Jonson A., Cavallaro A., The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2004. 328 pp. Type: Book (9780262701082)
The premise of this work is that we are who we are as humans because of the limitless social apparatus of technology, primarily the computer network. The interwoven nature of the human-computer interface has made it impossible to disti...
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Nov 17 2005 |
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Interview: James Gosling
Allman E. Queue 2(5): 24-33, 2004. Type: Article
James Gosling is a great Java evangelist, who gives many interviews and conference talks. As the primary creator of Java, and with a purely technical, as opposed to marketing, focus, he is always worth reading or hearing. Eric Allman, ...
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Jun 8 2005 |
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The digital hand: how computers changed the work of American manufacturing, transportation, and retail industries
Cortada J., Oxford University Press, 2003. Type: Book (9780195165883)
In 1776, Adam Smith published An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations. In that seminal book on economics, he described the “invisible hand” of self-interest, guiding the economy of a na...
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Dec 28 2004 |
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Jacquard’s Web: how a hand-loom led to the birth of the information age
Essinger J., Oxford University Press, 2004. Type: Book (9780192805775)
Many would consider essential characteristics of what we commonly refer to as modern computers to include storage of programs in memory, digital rather than analog storage and computation, and general purpose computations (apart from f...
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Dec 6 2004 |
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Past and future of information systems
Andersen K., Vendelo M., Butterworth-Heinemann, Newton, MA, 2004. 288 pp. Type: Book (9780750661416)
The authors of this book help the reader understand the technological, organizational, social, and economic factors that influence the success of new information systems (IS). Using a variety of approaches from the social sciences, man...
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Sep 27 2004 |
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The computer project at the Naval Ordnance Laboratory
Mooers C. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 23(2): 51-67, 2001. Type: Article
Associated notes provided by the author’s daughter describe this paper as a memoir, and that is accurate. Mooers recounts his involvement with the Naval Ordnance Laboratory (NOL) computer project. His thesis, though, is that ...
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Apr 17 2002 |
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Inventing Systems Engineering
Aris J. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 22(3): 4-15, 2000. Type: Article
The content of this excellent paper is well described by its abstract:...
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Jan 1 2001 |
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Project Mercury’s Man-in-Space Real-Time Computer System: "You Have a Go, at Least Seven Orbits"
Gass S. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 21(4): 37-48, 1999. Type: Article
Gass combines a portion of his autobiography with a technical history of the computer system that supported the early manned space missions of Project Mercury. He not only describes his growth from an entry-level position in mathematic...
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Feb 1 2000 |
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