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The difference engine: Charles Babbage and the quest to build the first computer
Swade D., Viking Press, New York, NY, 2001. 342 pp. Type: Book (9780670910205)
In July 1991, the world celebrated (about six months early) the bicentennial of the birth of Charles Babbage with a conference at the University of Cambridge and a spectacular exhibit opening at the Science Museum in South Kensington, ...
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Parsing Nonlinear Languages
Tucci M., Vitiello G., Costagliola G. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 20(9): 720-739, 1994. Type: Article
The subject of this paper is actually a generator of icon-oriented visual languages--the Visual Language Generator (VLG) system, which features a grammatical formalism for nonlinear languages and multidimensional languages. Th...
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Sep 1 1995 |
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Essentials of programming languages
Friedman D. (ed), Haynes C., Wand M., MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1992. Type: Book (9780262061452)
Hal Abelson’s foreword suggests that not only is this textbook different, it will change the landscape of programming language courses. In many ways, it is different. We have seen a progression of approaches to the study o...
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Feb 1 1994 |
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Innovating for failure: government policy and the early British computer industry
Hendry J., MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1989. Type: Book (9780262081870)
Hendry has provided a case study of the interaction between a well-meaning governmental agency and the industry it was supposed to develop--which clearly shows how the objectives of a government and the goals of an industry ca...
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Feb 1 1991 |
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Davis M. Type: Article
Martin Davis’s thesis implies that the design of early computers was based much more on logical reasoning than previous authors have proposed. Concentrating on the contributions to logic made by Alan Turing and John von Neuma...
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Feb 1 1989 |
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Generating language-based environments
Reps T., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 1984. Type: Book (9789780262181150)
This volume is the second in the annual series started by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and The MIT Press in 1982. It is the winner of the 1983 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award. . . ....
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Mar 1 1985 |
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Software portability and standards
Dahlstrand I., John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, NY, 1984. Type: Book (9789780470200834)
When I undertook to review this textbook, I had anticipated that the major theme could have been restated as “using standard to enhance software portability,” but this is not the case. Instead, the author reviews o...
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Feb 1 1985 |
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