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It Began with Babbage
Author | : Subrata Dasgupta |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2014-03 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780199309412 |
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A complete and accessible history of computer science, beginning with Charles Babbage in 1819.
It Began with Babbage
Author | : Subrata Dasgupta |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2014-01-07 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 9780199309429 |
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As a field, computer science occupies a unique scientific space, in that its subject matter can exist in both physical and abstract realms. An artifact such as software is both tangible and not, and must be classified as something in between, or "liminal." The study and production of liminal artifacts allows for creative possibilities that are, and have been, possible only in computer science. In It Began with Babbage, computer scientist and writer Subrata Dasgupta examines the distinct history of computer science in terms of its creative innovations, reaching back to Charles Babbage in 1819. Since all artifacts of computer science are conceived with a use in mind, the computer scientist is not concerned with the natural laws that govern disciplines like physics or chemistry; instead, the field is more concerned with the concept of purpose. This requirement lends itself to a type of creative thinking that, as Dasgupta shows us, has exhibited itself throughout the history of computer science. More than any other, computer science is the science of the artificial, and has a unique history to accompany its unique focus. The book traces a path from Babbage's Difference Engine in the early 19th century to the end of the 1960s by when a new academic discipline named "computer science" had come into being. Along the way we meet characters like Babbage and Ada Lovelace, Turing and von Neumann, Shannon and Chomsky, and a host of other people from a variety of backgrounds who collectively created this new science of the artificial. And in the end, we see how and why computer science acquired a nature and history all of its own.
The Difference Engine
Author | : Doron Swade |
Publsiher | : Penguin Group |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : UOM:39015058280457 |
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"Drawing on previously unused archival material, The Difference Engine is a tale of both Babbage's nineteenth-century quest to build a calculating engine and its twentieth-century sequel. For in 1991, Babbage's vision was finally realized, at least in part, by the completion at the Science Museum in London of the first full-sized Babbage engine, finished in time for the 200th anniversary of Babbage's birth. The two quests are mutually illuminating and are recounted here by the then Curator of Computing, Doron Swade - one of the main protagonists of the successful resumption of Babbage's extraordinary work."--BOOK JACKET.
Charles Babbage
Author | : Neil Champion,Charles Babbage |
Publsiher | : Heinemann Educational Books |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1575723670 |
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Examines the life and contributions of the English mathematician and inventor, whose work with calculating machines caused him to be called the father of the modern computer.
The Second Age of Computer Science
Author | : Subrata Dasgupta |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 9780190843861 |
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Between the genesis of computer science in the 1960s and the advent of the World Wide Web around 1990, computer science evolved in significant ways. The author has termed this period the "second age of computer science." This book describes its evolution in the form of several interconnected parallel histories.
Charles Babbage
Author | : Bruce Collier,James MacLachlan |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 129 |
Release | : 2000-09-28 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780195142877 |
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Traces the life and work of the man whose nineteenth century inventions led to the development of the computer.
The Difference Engine
Author | : William Gibson |
Publsiher | : Spectra |
Total Pages | : 514 |
Release | : 2011-07-26 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780440423621 |
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The 20th anniversary edition of the classic steampunk novel With new commentary by the authors 1855: The Industrial Revolution is in full swing, powered by steam-driven cybernetic Engines. Charles Babbage perfects his Analytical Engine, and the computer age arrives a century ahead of its time. Three extraordinary characters race toward a rendezvous with the future: Sybil Gerard—fallen woman, politician’s tart, daughter of a Luddite agitator; Edward “Leviathan” Mallory—explorer and paleontologist; Laurence Oliphant—diplomat, mystic, and spy. Their adventure begins with the discovery of a box of punched Engine cards of unknown origin and purpose. Cards someone wants badly enough to kill for. Part detective story, part historical thriller, The Difference Engine took the science fiction community by storm when it was first published twenty years ago. This special anniversary edition features an Introduction by Cory Doctorow and a collaborative essay from the authors looking back on their creation. Provocative, compelling, intensely imagined, this novel is poised to impress a whole new generation.
Charles Babbage
Author | : Anthony Hyman |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0691023778 |
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A biography of inventor and mathematician Charles Babbage.