Akera Atsushi (12 results)
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Condition: Very Good. 1st. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.
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Seller: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.Better World Books
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Language: English
Published by Oxford University Press, Inc., New York, NY, U.S.A., 2002
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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Computers and their origins have a fascination both for scholars and for ordinary readers, but much of the existing literature on the history of computing is too specialized to interest the general reader. This collection is broad in scope, offering an autho…ritative and up-to-date introduction to the history of computing. It gives an overview of two centuries in the history of information processing and detailed coverage of a number of more recent topics, including PC software, user interfaces, and the Internet. By integrating the technical, business, and policy aspects of the history of computing, the authors explain how and why computers were created, and how they were shaped by the intent of their creators. All of the contributors are experts in their fields, writing clearly and avoiding jargon to make this book accessible to a wide range of general readers, students, historians and computer professionals. As new, first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} NF3.
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Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.Books From California
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Language: English
Published by Oxford University Press, 2002. 9780195140255, 2002
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1st edn 1st printing. 8vo. Original black lettered red cloth (top corner of upper board lightly bumped - otherwise Fine), dustwrapper (Fine). Pp. xi + 228, illus with b&w photos in text (no inscriptions).
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Published by MIT Press, 2008
Series: Inside Technology, Book 6 of 63. Book 6 of 63 - Inside Technology
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Seller: Southampton Books, Sag Harbor, NY, U.S.A.Southampton Books
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Paperback. Condition: Like New. FIRST THUS. First Edition Thus, 2nd Printing. Published by MIT Press, 2008. Octavo. Paperback. Book is like new with publisher mark to bottom page ends. Great copy of this engaging history title.100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Ple…ase email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.
Language: English
Published by The MIT Press, 2008
Series: Inside Technology, Book 6 of 63. Book 6 of 63 - Inside Technology
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Seller: Galisteo Consulting Group Books, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.Galisteo Consulting Group Books
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Softcover. Condition: Very Good. A foundational text on the evolution of military strategy and diplomatic statecraft. Useful for placing current geopolitical shifts within a broader historical and theoretical context. Used - very good. Ships from the USA. During the Cold War, the field of computing advanced rapidly within a comp…lex institutional context. In Calculating a Natural World, Atsushi Akera describes the complicated interplay of academic, commercial, and government and military interests that produced a burst of scientific discovery and technological innovation in 1940s and 1950s America. This was the era of big machines--the computers that made the reputations of IBM and of many academic laboratories--and Akera uses the computer as a historical window on the emerging infrastructure of American scientific and engineering research. The military-industrial complex is often spoken of as a coherent and unified power, but Akera argues that it was the tensions as much as the convergences among military, business, and academic forces that fueled scientific and technological advances.Akera's study is unique in its integration of a history of postwar computing--usually told in terms of either business or hardware--and a mapping of an "ecology of knowledge" represented by the emerging institutional infrastructure for computing. For example, Akera sees John Mauchly's early work on computers as a product of his peripatetic career--his journey through different institutional ecologies--and John von Neumann's work as emerging from the convergence of physics and applied mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study. Akera also looks at the ways in which the institutional contexts of the National Bureau of Standards and MIT's Project Whirlwind pulled research in diverging directions, and he examines IBM's dominance from the perspectives of both business and users. Finally, Akera compares the academic computing centers at MIT and the University of Michigan, tracing the tensions on those campuses over whether computers were a service facility, a commercial technology, or a subject of research.
Published by Oxford University Press, New York, 2002
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Seller: 32.1 Rare Books + Ephemera, IOBA, ESA, Princeton, NJ, U.S.A.32.1 Rare Books + Ephemera, IOBA, ESA
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Near Fine. dj. First Edition. 228 pp., Index. Well-received volume on computing history. Near Fine with a few small areas of page wrinkling on a couple of pages in a Fine dust jacket.
From 0 to 1: An Authoritative History of Modern Computing Akera, Atsushi and Nebeker, Frederick
From 0 to 1: An Authoritative History of Modern Computing Akera, Atsushi and Nebeker, Frederick
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Seller: Aragon Books Canada, OTTAWA, ON, CanadaAragon Books Canada
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Language: English
Published by Mit Pr, 2006
Series: Inside Technology, Book 6 of 63. Book 6 of 63 - Inside Technology
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Seller: Phatpocket Limited, Waltham Abbey, HERTS, United KingdomPhatpocket Limited
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Condition: Good. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library, so some stamps and wear, but in good overall condition. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.
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Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, United KingdomRevaluation Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 228 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.
