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A brief history of computing / Gerard O'Regan.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: London ; New York : Springer, ©2012.Edition: 2nd edDescription: xxiii, 264 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
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  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781447123583
  • 1447123581
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 004.09 23/swe
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-259) and index.

Computing in Early Civilisations -- What Is a Computer? -- Early Computers -- Developments in the 1950s-1970s -- Revolutions in the 1980s and 1990s -- IBM -- Technology Companies -- The Internet Revolution -- History of Programming Languages -- History of Software Engineering -- People in Computing -- Foundations (Boole and Babbage) -- Claude Shannon -- Alan Turing -- Artificial Intelligence