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A broad and detailed account of von Neumann's many contributions to computing.
Geoffrey D. Austrian,
Herman Hollerith: Forgotten Giant of
Information Processing, Columbia University Press, 1982. ISBN:
0231051468.
A lively biography that tells the story of Hollerith, a pioneer in the
data processing industry. He invented the punched card tabulating machine.
The first full-scale examination of the Atanasoff Berry Computer and the academic environment in which Atanasoff and Berry worked.
A frank and candid story of Thomas J. Watson, creator, builder and long-time head of International Business Machines, who has had a profound and continuing effect on American business and American life.
This is the story of the first electronic computer. The authors presented astonishing technological originality of Atanasoff's invention.
Babbage tells the lively story of his youthful escapades, his friendship with outstanding European figures such as Biot and Humboldt, and the dominating obsession of his life - the creation of a machine that would forever remove the mistakes and wasted effort inevitable in any extensive arithmetical calculations.
Offers a clear and entertaining introduction to Aiken, a major figure in the early digital era best known for his first machine, the IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator.
The fascinating behind-the-scenes story of how the Apple miracle happened.
A portrait of the brilliant mathematician who invented the device which deciphered the German military code, "Enigma," and which played a key role in the Allied victory over the Nazis.
This book discusses the career of Charles Babbage (1791-1881), British advocate of the systematic use of science in industry and creator of machines that were precursors of the modern computer.
Contains selected unabridged chapters from Passages from the Life of a Philosopher by Charles Babbage and selected unabridged essays from Babbage's Calculating Engines.
A first full-length portrait of Ken Olsen, founder of the Digital Equipment Corporation and one of the most successful entrepreneur in the history of American business.
An unauthorized and officially disapproved, yet conscientious and lively account of Tom Watson, the creator of IBM.
A fascinating and dramatic story about Augusta Ada Byron, the interpreter of the designs for the first modern computer and the inventor o the science of computer programming.
Swade is the acknowledged expert on Babbage's life and work. This book is a fascinating account of Babbage's quest to realize his vision of an automatic computing machine. Babbage was a gentleman philosopher and a tireless inventor. Unfortunately research and development in the early 19th century hindered his machine. However, Swade also tells the story of the 20th century quest by the Science Museum in London to build a working Babbage engine in time for the bicentenary of his birth, a project which Swade himself led.
In the course of sixty years, Thomas J. Watson Sr. and Thomas J. Watson Jr. together built the colossus that is IBM, one of the largest and most profitable business enterprise of the earth. Here is an eloquent first-person account of a family drama that changed the face of American business.
An autobiography of Maurice Wilkes, leading scientist in the development of the modern digital computer.
An insider's account of the rise to power and the fall from grace of Steve Jobs, cofounder of Apple Computer, Inc.