A Brief History of Computing
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From the reviews of the second edition:
"The book under review . provides a succint (about 250 pages) reference book to computing topics (ranging from history to people to basic concepts). . In its succint presentation the book has several strengths: It deals with pioneers (like Zuse) and historical issues . . The book aims at the general reader or student with some general mathematical background knowledge and some experience with computers who needs a short offline encyclopedia." (Manuel Bremer, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1244, 2012)
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Dr. Gerard O'Regan is a CMMI software process improvement consultant at SQC Consulting, and a visiting lecturer at Limkokwing University of Creative Technology, Malaysia. He is the author of the Springer titles Introduction to Software Process Improvement , Mathematical Approaches to Software Quality and A Practical Approach to Software Quality .
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Computing in Early Civilisations.- What is a Computer?- Early Computers.- Developments in the 1950s to 1970s.- Revolutions in the 1980s and 1990s.- IBM.- Technology Companies.- The Internet Revolution.- History of Programming Languages.- History of Software Engineering.- People in Computing.- Foundations (Boole and Babbage).- Claude Shannon.- Alan Turing.- Artificial Intelligence.
