In the Beginning 2.0
Personal Recollections of Software Pioneers
Published on 7. December 2020
Book
Hardback
690 pages
978-0-9772133-6-8 (ISBN)
Description
A guided tour by software pioneer Robert L. Glass through early computing and software engineering, 1940s-1990s. First-hand accounts of the people and innovations that made our age possible. Three female pioneers added for this new edition.
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Language
English
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 37 mm
Weight
794 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-9772133-6-8 (9780977213368)
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Robert L. Glass meandered the halls of computing and software for over 45 years, beginning in 1954. He is proud to say he was not only a software pioneer but a space applications pioneer, having spent his early years doing software applications and system software for U.S. aerospace companies. After a transition into academic life, he was on the faculty of the pioneering software engineering graduate program at Seattle University and spent a year trying to fit a practitioner's background and knowledge into the academic-oriented Software Engineering Institute. His proudest moments were receiving an honorary PhD from Linkoping University in Sweden in 1995 and being named an ACM Fellow in 1999.