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Punched cards (second edition)

Robert CASEY, James PERRY, Madeline BERRY, Alien KENT | 11/07/2010 | Usages et pratiques

1958 - Rheinhold Publishing Corporation - 697 pages - EN INTRODUCTION Allen Kent and James W. Perry Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio AND Robert S. Casey W. A. Sheaffer Pen Co., Fort Madison, Iowa Methods and systems for expediting the recall and correlation of...

1958, EN

Men of science in America

Bernard JAFFE | 04/04/2010 | Histoire

1944 - Overseas Edition, Inc - 502 pages - EN This book paints a broad picture of the growth of science in the United States in terras of the lives of the scientists themselves. It starts with Thomas Har-riot, who came to America in 1588 with Raleigh's expédition, and who, in addition to his...

1944, EN

Fire in the valley

Paul FREIBERGER et Michael SWAINE | 27/02/2010 | Histoire

1984 - 0-88134-121-5 - Osborne/McGraw-Hill - 288 pages - EN In the early 1970s the personal computer was just a wild dream shared by a small group of computer enthusiasts in an area south of San Francisco now called Silicon Valley. Working after-hours in basements and warehouses, computer...

1984, EN

From compass to computers

W. A. Atherton | 27/02/2010 | Histoire

1984 - 0-911-30249-2 - San Francisco Press - 337 pages - EN This book presents to electrical and electronics engineers, technicians, and students (or anyone interested in the development of technology) an easily digestible account of the development of their discipline. This history is known...

1984, EN

Few Good Men from Univac (A)

David E. LUNDSTROM | 27/02/2010 | Histoire

1987 - MIT Press - 0-262-12120-4 - 227 pages - EN "I fail to understand why we have lost our industry leadership position by letting someone else offer the world's most powerful computer," IBM's president Thomas J. Watson noted in a memo after Control Data had unveiled its 6600 system. Sparked by a...

1987, EN

Automatic Data Processing Conference

Robert N. ANTHONY | 21/02/2010 | Usages et pratiques

1956 - Harvard University - 194 pages - EN Actes de la conférence organisée à Harvard les 8 et 9 septembre 1955 sur les débuts des outils de traitement des données. Illustré de schémas et de quelques photos en noir et blanc des matériels de cette époque. Origine : Collection Robert Ligonnière

1955, EN

Handbook of fiber optics

Helmut F. WOLF | 06/02/2010 | Matériel

1979 - Garland - 0-8240-7054-2 - 545 pages - EN Here is a practical thoroughly readable guide to the understanding and uses of fiber optics communications. It comprehensively reviews the most important theoretical and practical features of fibers, sources, detectors, and other basic components,...

1975, EN

Stretching Man's Mind : a History of Data Processing

Margaret HARMON | 06/02/2010 | Histoire

1975 - Mason / Charter -0-88405-282-6 - 239 pages - EN Computers increasingly influence and regulate our lives and businesses. And yet most of us feel unable to understand the theory and operation of this powerful and important new tool. STRETCHING MAN'S MIND: A HISTORY OF DATA PROCESSING...

1975, EN

and tomorrow... the world?

Rex MALIK | 06/02/2010 | Histoire

1975 - Millington - 0-86000-043-5 - 496 pages - EN Based on thousands of IBM internal documents, senior management committee minutes, depositions given in evidence, court transcripts and the author's experience of covering the computer industry for more than twenty years, this book is a...

1975, EN, ibm

Inventors at work

Kenneth A. BROWN | 31/01/2010 | Histoire

1988 - Microsoft Press - 1-55615-042-3 - 388 pages - EN INVENTORS AT WORK is a collection of sixteen engaging interviews with some of the most notable inventors of our time, from professional R and D specialists such as NASA's Maxime Faget, Hughes Aircraft's Harold Rosen, and Xerox's Bob Gundlach...

1988, EN

Little Kingdom (The)

Michael MORITZ | 31/01/2010 | Histoire

1984 - William Morrow and Company Apple Computer, Inc., is Silicon Valley's most precocious child. Started in 1976 by two college dropouts, the young, personal-computer company now has yearly sales of more than $1 billion! It reached the Fortune 500 more quickly than any other company, recorded one...

1984, apple, EN

World of the computer (The)

John DIEBOLD | 31/01/2010 | Histoire

1973 - Random House - 0-394-47150-4 - 458 pages - EN The computer is entering the fourth generation of its history, but it still remains a mystery for most people. It is a constant influence on our lives, having radically altered not only how we do things but also in a large part what we do. In an...

1973, EN

Georg Scheutz and the first printing calculator

Uta C. MERZBACH | 31/01/2010 | Histoire

1977 - Smithsonian Insitution Press - 74 pages - EN ABSTRACT Merzbach, Uta G. Georg Scheutz and the First Printing Calculator. Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology, number 36, 74 pages, 35 figures, 1977.— The Swedish publisher Georg Scheutz (1785—1873) was a man who combined literary,...

1977, EN

Primer on PASCAL (A)

Richard Conway, David Gries, E. Carl Zimmerman | 22/01/2010 | Logiciels et programmation

1976 - Winthrop Publishers - 0-87626-694-4 - 433 pages - EN A Primer On PASCAL offers students a working knowledge of PASCAL in the context of an elementary first encounter with computing. The book teaches a simple but adequate subset of PASCAL i making communication with the computer easier and...

1976, EN, Pascal

Information theory and its engineering applications

D.A. Bell | 31/12/2009 | Logiciels et programmation

1957 - Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons - 174 pages - EN INTRODUCTORY—BINARY DIGIT MEASURE OF INFORMATION What is this "information theory"? Perhaps the best answer is to summarize the specific results which it has produced in the last decade— (i) "Information is the negative of entropy." This...

1957, EN

Being digital

Nicholas NEGROPONTE | 31/12/2009 | Usages et pratiques

1995 - Vintage Books - 0-679-76290-6 - 255 pages - EN The book you are holding is probably obsolete: it consists of atoms, which are bulky and cumbersome to transport. And, increasingly, the dominant units of human interaction are bits —"the DNA of information" that has made possible everything...

1995, EN

Human use of human beings (The)

Norbert WIENER | 31/12/2009 | Usages et pratiques

1954 - Doubleday Anchor Books - 200 pages - EN The new science of Cybernetics which Professor Wiener and his colleagues à M.I.T. have developped has had a market influence on theoris of communication and control not only in mathematics, engineering, and electronics, where it began, but in such...

1954, EN

From dits to bits

Herman LUKOFF | 31/12/2009 | Histoire

1979 - Robotics Press - 89661-002-0 - 219 pages - EN Here is an account that will, once and for all, put to rest the widely held myth that computers must have been invented by individuals who themselves were basically automatons. In FROM DITS TO BITS, the reader is given a very personal look...

1979, EN

Bit by Bit

Stan Augarten | 31/12/2009 | Histoire

1984 - Ticknor & Fields - 0-89919-302-1 - 323 pages - EN Just forty years ago, there wasn't a single computer in the world. Today, there are millions, and they touch the lives of every one of us. Like most revolutionary inventions, the computer was the culmination of a long chain of...

1984, EN

Dilbert Future (The)

Scott Adams | 31/12/2009 | Usages et pratiques

1997 - Harper Business - 0-88730-866-X - 258 pages - EN WARNING: MORE STUPIDITY AHEAD If your personal crystal ball gets foggy, you'd better buy at least two copies of The Dilbert Future . . . and maybe a few extra copies for your friends. Just kidding. One copy will do just fine. In The...

1997, Dilbert, EN, humour