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A New History of Modern Computing

A New History of Modern Computing

Haigh, Thomas
Ceruzzi, Paul E.

Paperback

Series: History of Computing

Technology & EngineeringGeneral Computers

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ISBN10: 0262542900
ISBN13: 9780262542906
Publisher: Mit Pr
Published: Sep 14 2021
Pages: 544
Weight: 2.35
Height: 1.40 Width: 6.80 Depth: 9.90
Language: English
How the computer became universal.

Over the past fifty years, the computer has been transformed from a hulking scientific supertool and data processing workhorse, remote from the experiences of ordinary people, to a diverse family of devices that billions rely on to play games, shop, stream music and movies, communicate, and count their steps. In A New History of Modern Computing, Thomas Haigh and Paul Ceruzzi trace these changes. A comprehensive reimagining of Ceruzzi's A History of Modern Computing, this new volume uses each chapter to recount one such transformation, describing how a particular community of users and producers remade the computer into something new.

Haigh and Ceruzzi ground their accounts of these computing revolutions in the longer and deeper history of computing technology. They begin with the story of the 1945 ENIAC computer, which introduced the vocabulary of programs and programming, and proceed through email, pocket calculators, personal computers, the World Wide Web, videogames, smart phones, and our current world of computers everywhere--in phones, cars, appliances, watches, and more. Finally, they consider the Tesla Model S as an object that simultaneously embodies many strands of computing.

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