Dream Machine: Story of the Computer - Softcover

Palfreman, Jon; Swade, Doron

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0563369922 ISBN 13: 9780563369929

Verlag: BBC Books, 1993

Inhaltsangabe

Provides a history of the computer and its industry, discussing such topics as the rise of the Apple Computer and research done on artificial intelligence

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Reseña del editor

The Dream Machine is the story of the development of the computer and the remarkable people behind it. It is hard to interpret a revolution when you are in the midst of one, but this book is an attempt to do just that. The Dream Machine explores the computer age from the earliest attempts to represent numbers and mechanize calculation; from these modest beginnings emerged a dream of a general-purpose machine unlike anything the world had ever known before.

Biografía del autor

JON PALFREMAN, PhD, is the KEZI Distinguished Professor of Broadcast Journalism at the University of Oregon. He is an Emmy, Dupont, and Peabody Awardwinning journalist, and the recipient of the Victor Cohn Prize for Excellence in Medical Science Reporting. He is a three-time winner of an AAAS Science Journalism Award and a three-time winner of the NASW Science in Society Journalism Award. Palfreman is the author of The Case of the Frozen Addicts and The Dream Machine. He lives in Lexington, Massachusetts.

Doron Swade, assistant director and head of collections at the Science Museum in London, is an engineer, historian of technology, and a leading authority on the life and work of Charles Babbage.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: BBC Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1993
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0563369922
• ISBN 13: 9780563369929
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 105
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Universal Music Group Gmbh; https://www.universalmusic.com/; ; Winterhuder Weg 27; Hamburg; 22085; Deutschland