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	Browse All Reviews > Computing Milieux (K) > History of Computing (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 309 Reviews about "History of Computing (K.2)": Date Reviewed   Constructed truths: truth and knowledge in a post-truth world Zoglauer T., Springer International Publishing, Cham, Switzerland, 2023. 162 pp.  Type: Book (3658399414), Reviews: (2 of 2) Families gather during the holiday season, and heated discussions often erupt over politics and cultural values. This situation has become so frequent that it is standard fare in comedy sketches, jokes, and cartoons. It seems as though the opposin... Mar 11 2024   Constructed truths: truth and knowledge in a post-truth world Zoglauer T., Springer International Publishing, Cham, Switzerland, 2023. 162 pp.  Type: Book (3658399414), Reviews: (1 of 2) Many of us grew up used to having some news sources we could implicitly trust, such as well-positioned newspapers and radio or TV news programs. We knew they would only hire responsible journalists rather than risk diluting public trust and losing... Mar 6 2024    The maniac Labatut B., Penguin Press, Westminster, London, 2023. 368 pp.  Type: Book (9780593654477) At the confluence of physics, mathematics, and computing, in the middle of the 20th century, lived a community of unique and sometimes troubled geniuses whose work created today’s technological marvels and dangers. Einstein, of course, Hilbe... Jan 31 2024   What came first, math or computing? Vardi M. Communications of the ACM 66(11): 5-5, 2023.  Type: Article The intellectual debate on the emergence of mathematics and computing is long overdue. Did mathematicians create the field of computer science (CS), or have mathematics and CS coexisted for a long time? Vardi offers some succinct insights into thi... Dec 1 2023   Genius: theory, history and technique Manzocco R., Springer International Publishing, Cham, Switzerland, 2023. 182 pp.  Type: Book (9783031270918), Reviews: (2 of 2) Athletes spend a lot of time analyzing Olympic performances; scientists, engineers, and artists are also fascinated by “genius.” But what is a genius? How is one made? Can I be one, or can I at least raise my children to be geniuses? A... Oct 23 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: (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 ... Sep 12 2023    Genius: theory, history and technique Manzocco R., Springer International Publishing, Cham, Switzerland, 2023. 182 pp.  Type: Book (9783031270918), Reviews: (1 of 2) Most of us stand in awe of the great intellectual giants who exemplified, or even created, the character of the eras in which they lived. Newton, Einstein, Euler, J. S. Bach, Beethoven, Botticelli, Picasso, and Shakespeare are just a few of these ... Aug 11 2023    Fancy Bear goes phishing: the dark history of the Information Age, in five extraordinary hacks Shapiro S., Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, NY, 2023. 432 pp.  Type: Book (9780374601171) “Hacking” is the practice of gaining access to a computer system by methods other than the legitimate ones that it presents to the outside world or by compromising a legitimate method. For example, accessing a server connected to the I... Jul 14 2023    The story of proof: logic and the history of mathematics Stillwell J., PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS, Princeton, NJ, 2022. 456 pp.  Type: Book (0691234361), Reviews: (2 of 2) Years ago, several of my colleagues in the university’s mathematics department told me that many high school students no longer study classic plane geometry, the kind of instruction that emphasizes careful logic applied to axioms, postulates... Feb 23 2023    The story of proof: logic and the history of mathematics Stillwell J., PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS, Princeton, NJ, 2022. 456 pp.  Type: Book (0691234361), Reviews: (1 of 2) The present book is aimed at a general mathematical audience. My third Stillwell book, it follows Elements of mathematics and Reverse mathematics [1,2] and maintains these predecessors’ high standards in content, sequence, and ... Jan 18 2023       Display 510152550100 per page
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