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A compact and accessible history of computing—from punch cards and calculators to UNIVAC and ENIAC, the personal computer, Silicon Valley, and the Internet—for experts and non-experts alike

In an accessible style, computer historian Paul Ceruzzi offers a broad though detailed history of computing, from the first use of the word “digital” in 1942 to the development of punch cards and the first general purpose computer, to the internet, Silicon Valley, and smartphones and social networking.

Ceruzzi identifies 4 major threads that run throughout all of computing's technological development:

• Digitization: the coding of information, computation, and control in binary form
• The convergence of multiple streams of techniques, devices, and machines
• The steady advance of electronic technology, as characterized famously by “Moore's Law”
• Human-machine interface

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      Publisher: MIT Press
      Publication Date: 6/15/2012 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780262517676, 978-0262517676
      ISBN10: 0262517671
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A compact and accessible history of computing—from punch cards and calculators to UNIVAC and ENIAC, the personal computer, Silicon Valley, and the Internet—for experts and non-experts alike

      In an accessible style, computer historian Paul Ceruzzi offers a broad though detailed history of computing, from the first use of the word “digital” in 1942 to the development of punch cards and the first general purpose computer, to the internet, Silicon Valley, and smartphones and social networking.

      Ceruzzi identifies 4 major threads that run throughout all of computing's technological development:

      • Digitization: the coding of information, computation, and control in binary form
      • The convergence of multiple streams of techniques, devices, and machines
      • The steady advance of electronic technology, as characterized famously by “Moore's Law”
      • Human-machine interface

      The

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