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100	1		_aCeruzzi, Paul E. _eauthor
245	1	0	_aComputing : _bA Concise History / _cPaul E. Ceruzzi.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bMIT Press, _c2012.
264		4	_c©2012.
300			_a1 online resource (221 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aMIT Press Essential Knowledge Ser.
505	0		_aIntro -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. The Digital Age -- 2. The First Computers, 1935-1945 -- 3. The Stored Program Principle -- 4. The Chip and Silicon Valley -- 5. The Microprocessor -- 6. The Internet and the World Wide Web -- 7. Conclusion -- Notes -- Glossary -- Further Reading -- Bibliography -- Index.
520			_aA compact and accessible history, from punch cards and calculators to UNIVAC and ENIAC, the personal computer, Silicon Valley, and the Internet. The history of computing could be told as the story of hardware and software, or the story of the Internet, or the story of "smart" hand-held devices, with subplots involving IBM, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, and Twitter. In this concise and accessible account of the invention and development of digital technology, computer historian Paul Ceruzzi offers a broader and more useful perspective. He identifies four major threads that run throughout all of computing's technological development: digitization--the coding of information, computation, and control in binary form, ones and zeros; the convergence of multiple streams of techniques, devices, and machines, yielding more than the sum of their parts; the steady advance of electronic technology, as characterized famously by "Moore's Law"; and the human-machine interface. Ceruzzi guides us through computing history, telling how a Bell Labs mathematician coined the word "digital" in 1942 (to describe a high-speed method of calculating used in anti-aircraft devices), and recounting the development of the punch card (for use in the 1890 U.S. Census). He describes the ENIAC, built for scientific and military applications; the UNIVAC, the first general purpose computer; and ARPANET, the Internet's precursor. Ceruzzi's account traces the world-changing evolution of the computer from a room-size ensemble of machinery to a "minicomputer" to a desktop computer to a pocket-sized smart phone. He describes the development of the silicon chip, which could store ever-increasing amounts of data and enabled ever-decreasing device size. He visits that hotbed of innovation, Silicon Valley, and brings the story up to the present with the Internet, the World Wide Web, and social networking.
588			_aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590			_aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2021. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650		0	_aComputer science _979104 _xHistory
655		4	_aElectronic books.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aCeruzzi, Paul E. _tComputing _dCambridge : MIT Press,c2012 _z9780262517676
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830		0	_aMIT Press Essential Knowledge Ser.
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