Howard Aiken: Portrait of a Computer Pioneer (History of Computing) - Softcover

Cohen, I. Bernard

 
9780262531795: Howard Aiken: Portrait of a Computer Pioneer (History of Computing)
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ISBN 10: 0262531798 ISBN 13: 9780262531795
Publisher: MIT Press, 2000

Synopsis

Biography of Howard Aiken, a major figure of the early digital era, by a major historian of science who was also a colleague of Aiken's at Harvard.

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About the Authors

William Aspray is Bill and Lewis Suit Professor of Information Technologies in the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the coeditor of Women and Information Technology: Research on Underrepresentation (2006) and The Internet and American Business (2008), both published by the MIT Press.


Thomas J. Misa is ERA-Land Grant Professor of the History of Technology at the University of Minnesota, where he directs the Charles Babbage Institute. His books include Modernity and Technology (coedited with Philip Brey and Andrew Feenberg; MIT Press, 2003).

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Publisher
MIT Press
Publication date
2000
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0262531798
ISBN 13 
9780262531795
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
352

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