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   A new history of modern computing
Haigh T., Ceruzzi P., MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2021. 544 pp.  Type: Book (978-2-625429-00-8), Reviews: (2 of 2)

Whether this book achieves biblical status as a paradigm of the history of modern computing rests with the reader. However, I can say with confidence that if you are a computing historian, a graduate student with a dissertation to complete, or an ...
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Sep 12 2023  
   A new history of modern computing
Haigh T., Ceruzzi P., MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2021. 544 pp.  Type: Book (978-2-625429-00-8), Reviews: (1 of 2)

When Ceruzzi’s earlier work [1] was first published, in 1998, mobile phones were just phones and not at all “smart,” the Internet was still largely a curiosity, and most of the entrepreneurs and founders of today’s Internet...
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Mar 31 2022  
  Exploring the early digital
Haigh T., Springer International Publishing, New York, NY, 2019. 243 pp.  Type: Book (978-3-030021-51-1)

Early digital is the theme proffered here as an alternative to computers, or even the larger framework of computing, to understand computer history during the formative period of digitizing information. The work is in line with a host ...
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Feb 7 2020  
  Hey Google, what’s a moonshot?: How Silicon Valley mocks Apollo
Haigh T. Communications of the ACM 62(1): 24-30, 2019.  Type: Article

Each generation faces its own challenges, which are not only about current potential but are also a sign of the time. Defeating them is a part of the existing paradigm. Today, we are primarily focused on the development of information ...
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Feb 28 2019  
  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  

 
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