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Discusses the inventors and scientists that contributed to the development of computers and more recently, personal computers. ... Read more

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Blatant Error
On page two the author states that the abacus was invented in China up to 5,000 years ago.That shows that the author is no authority in this area.The abacus originated in ancient Babylon about 5,000 years ago.The abacus did not get to China until about 800 years ago.In fact, it was the Europeans that taught the Chinese how to use an abacus.I stoped reading at page two.

text is too short?
Aimed at a primary school reader, Sherman offers a quick history of computing, with emphasis on the personal computer. Since the latter is likely what the reader is best acquainted with. For the reader, Sherman tries to convey how vastly and rapidly computers have improved. Something that the reader is probably too young to appreciate. After all, it's not clear that some readers know or fully appreciate that a current personal computer is equivalent to an entire large room of hardware from the 50s or 60s.

The text is rather short. Perhaps because of the intended age range of the reader? But maybe the text could have been lengthened. If only to talk more about recent popular usages on the PC. ... Read more

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A Good Writer's Reference
The book has 368 pages, almost entirely dates and three or four-line descriptions of key computer development events, plusfrequent photos and illustrations.

I bought this for my reference library since I write occasional articles on the history of technology in my consulting practice. It serves as a very useful reference, but very few would choose to read through the book.

Interesting stuff, if you can filter out the less important.
I learned a lot by going through all the "milestones" in thisbook. Unfortunately, there are a few errors. I was surprised to read thatDr. Spencer teaches computer science, as his explanations of some technicalnotions were a bit off the mark; perhaps this is just his attempt at makingthe material accessible to the "uninitiated". The book was notcarefully checked for typos, duplicate information, and even events thatappear in more than one year!

However, I still enjoyed reading the book.It did help me put some things in perspective. This might be a good on-lineproject, so that the reader could filter the time line to only include newmachine introductions, or salaries, or computer company revenues, orprocessor speeds, or whatever. ... Read more

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The first conference of the UK branch of the Association of History and Computing brought together archivists, computer specialists and history teachers from all levels of education. This book contains a selection of the presentations from that meeting demonstrating the "state-of-the-art" in historical computing in the specific area of databases. The themes discussed include the nature of historical databases, their creation from historical sources, their analysis in research in political, urban and medical history, and their exploitation in teaching. The contributions are grouped in sections on sources, methods, teaching and research. The section on methods makes a contribution to the debate about classification and coding. The final essay situates the field of historical computing within the discipline of history. ... Read more

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Webster's bibliographic and event-based timelines are comprehensive in scope, covering virtually all topics, geographic locations and people. They do so from a linguistic point of view, and in the case of this book, the focus is on "Computer-implemented," including when used in literature (e.g. all authors that might have Computer-implemented in their name). As such, this book represents the largest compilation of timeline events associated with Computer-implemented when it is used in proper noun form. Webster's timelines cover bibliographic citations, patented inventions, as well as non-conventional and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities in usage. These furthermore cover all parts of speech (possessive, institutional usage, geographic usage) and contexts, including pop culture, the arts, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This "data dump" results in a comprehensive set of entries for a bibliographic and/or event-based timeline on the proper name Computer-implemented, since editorial decisions to include or exclude events is purely a linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under "fair use" conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain. ... Read more

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Using Computers in History is designed to introduce students to historical computing through practical workshop exercise. Using examples such as the performance of the American and German economies in the 1930s, the working-class pattern of nineteenth-century emigration and the cotton industry, the authors explain and illustrate the range of computing possibilities available to the contemporary historian.
Using Computers in History:
* raises awareness of the use of the computer as an important tool for the historian
* includes spreadsheet exercises based around a range of historical data sets
* explores the use of databases and shows how to construct them
*prompts students to apply the skills they have learnt to a number of examples.

This new edition is updated throughout to take into consideration the latest technological developments, and includes a new chapter on using the Internet and its use as a tool for studying, researching and teaching history. Also included is an accessible introduction to quantitative methods. ... Read more

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An international journal published in association with CHArt. ... Read more

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Webster's bibliographic and event-based timelines are comprehensive in scope, covering virtually all topics, geographic locations and people. They do so from a linguistic point of view, and in the case of this book, the focus is on "Micro-computers," including when used in literature (e.g. all authors that might have Micro-computers in their name). As such, this book represents the largest compilation of timeline events associated with Micro-computers when it is used in proper noun form. Webster's timelines cover bibliographic citations, patented inventions, as well as non-conventional and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities in usage. These furthermore cover all parts of speech (possessive, institutional usage, geographic usage) and contexts, including pop culture, the arts, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This "data dump" results in a comprehensive set of entries for a bibliographic and/or event-based timeline on the proper name Micro-computers, since editorial decisions to include or exclude events is purely a linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under "fair use" conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain. ... Read more

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Complementing the author's 1990 bibliography, this volume provides 2,500 new citations, covering all significant literature published since the late 1980s. It includes all aspects of the subject--biographies, company histories, industry studies, product descriptions, sociological studies, industry directories, and traditional monographic histories--and covers all periods from the beginnings to the personal computer. New to this volume is a chapter on the management of information processing operations, useful to both historians and managers of information technology. Together with the earlier bibliography, this work provides the most comprehensive bibliographic guide to the history of computers, computing, and the information processing industry. ... Read more

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third IFIP Conference on the History of Computing and Education, held at the 20th World Computer Congress in Milano, Italy on September 7-10, 2008.

The IFIP series publishes state-of-the-art results in the sciences and technologies of information and communication. The scope of the series includes: foundations of computer science; software theory and practice; education; computer applications in technology; communication systems; systems modeling and optimization; information systems; computers and society; computer systems technology; security and protection in information processing systems; artificial intelligence; and human-computer interaction. Proceedings and post-proceedings of refereed international conferences in computer science and interdisciplinary fields are featured. These results often precede journal publication and represent the most current research. The principal aim of the IFIP series is to encourage education and the dissemination and exchange of information about all aspects of computing.

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No other technology in history has changed human life so quickly andon such a vast scale as the computer. The ways people communicate, work, buy and sell, advertise, entertain themselves, commit crimes, vote, learn, worship, fall in love, make communities, spy, and wage war are all being transformed by the ongoing Computer Revolution. (20030501) ... Read more

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Webster's bibliographic and event-based timelines are comprehensive in scope, covering virtually all topics, geographic locations and people. They do so from a linguistic point of view, and in the case of this book, the focus is on "Computer-related," including when used in literature (e.g. all authors that might have Computer-related in their name). As such, this book represents the largest compilation of timeline events associated with Computer-related when it is used in proper noun form. Webster's timelines cover bibliographic citations, patented inventions, as well as non-conventional and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities in usage. These furthermore cover all parts of speech (possessive, institutional usage, geographic usage) and contexts, including pop culture, the arts, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This "data dump" results in a comprehensive set of entries for a bibliographic and/or event-based timeline on the proper name Computer-related, since editorial decisions to include or exclude events is purely a linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under "fair use" conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain. ... Read more

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Traces the history of computers from the earliest calculating machines to current stages of development with artificial intelligence. ... Read more