Histories of Computing
Published on 20. June 2011
260 pages
978-0-674-27498-3 (ISBN)
Description
Michael Sean Mahoney was one of the first scholars to take seriously the challenges posed by information technology to our understanding of the twentieth century. Thomas Haigh collects thirteen of his essays and papers in a landmark work that will interest computer professionals as well as historians of technology and science.
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Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, Mass
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Edition type
Digital original
ISBN-13
978-0-674-27498-3 (9780674274983)
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Michael Sean Mahoney | Thomas Haigh
Histories of Computing
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06/2011
Harvard University Press
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Content
Cover Title Page Copyright Contents List of Figures Unexpected Connections, Powerful Pre ce dents, and Big Questions: The Work of Michael Sean Mahoney on the History of Computing PART ONE. Shaping the History of Computing 1. The History of Computing in the History of Technology 2. What Makes History? 3. Issues in the History of Computing 4. The Histories of Computing(s) PART TWO. Constructing a History for Software 5. Software: The Self- Programming Machine 6. Extracts from The Roots of Software Engineering 7. Finding a History for Software Engineering 8. Boys' Toys and Women's Work: Feminism Engages Software PART THREE. The Structures of Computation 9. Computing and Mathematics at Prince ton in the 1950s 10. Computer Science: The Search for a Mathematical Theory 11. Extracts from Computers and Mathematics: The Search for a Discipline of Computer Science 12. The Structures of Computation and the Mathematical Structure of Nature 13. Extracts from Software as Science- Science as Software Eloge: Michael Sean Mahoney, 1939- 2008 Notes Acknowledgments Index
