Extrait de la préface Marshall C. Yovits

i[This volume comprises the Proceedings of the Symposium on Large-Capacity Memory Techniques lor Computing Systems sponsored by the Information Systems Branch of the Office of Naval Research, May 23-25, 1961. The meetin...

Premier rapport annuel de la société Hewlett-Packard, qui est cotée sur les marchés financiers en 1957. La société réalise alors un chiffre d'affaires de 28 millions de dollars et un bénéfice de 2,4 millions de dollars.

i[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 recorde...

i[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 hi...

i[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, compute...

i[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 know...

i["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 b...

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

i[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...

i[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 PROCESSIN...

i[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...

i[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 Gundlac...

i[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, recorde...

i[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 a...

i[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...

i[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 an...

i[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 mean...

i[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 everythin...

i[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 suc...

i[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 loo...