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Product Identifiers

PublisherNorton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.

ISBN-100393314715

ISBN-139780393314717

eBay Product ID (ePID)149215

Product Key Features

Number of Pages364 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameEngines of the Mind : the Evolution of the Computer from Mainframes to Microprocessors

Publication Year1996

SubjectHistory

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaComputers

AuthorJoel N. Shurkin

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.1 in

Item Weight16.4 Oz

Item Length0.8 in

Item Width0.6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN96-155205

Dewey Edition20

Reviews[G]raphically illustrates how rapidly mankind is plunging ahead technologically, for better or worse, in the last half of the twentieth century.

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal004/.09

SynopsisNow, in a lively and evenhanded account, Joel Shurkin introduces us to the often-feuding players and the discoveries that made the computer possible-from the first models to the creation of the chip and beyond. Here is the first full account of an invention that changed the world. For this new paperback edition, Shurkin has added an epilogue and a new chapter on the latest milestones in the ongoing computer revolution., When John Mauchly and Presper Eckert developed the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (E.N.I.A.C.) at the University of Pennsylvania during World War II, their intention was to aid artillerymen in aiming their guns. Since then, in the past fifty years, E.N.I.A.C. and its offspring have changed the way we go about both business and science. Along with the transistor, the computer has brought about transformation on a scale unmatched since the industrial revolution. Now, in a lively and evenhanded account, Joel Shurkin introduces us to the often-feuding players and the discoveries that made the computer possible-from the first models to the creation of the chip and beyond. Here is the first full account of an invention that changed the world. For this new paperback edition, Shurkin has added an epilogue and a new chapter on the latest milestones in the ongoing computer revolution., When John Mauchly and Presper Eckert developed the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC) at the University of Pennsylvania during World War II, their intention was to aid artillerymen in aiming their guns. Since then, in the past fifty years, ENIAC and its offspring have changed the way we go about both business and science. Along with the transistor, the computer has brought about transformation on a scale unmatched since the industrial revolution. Now, in a lively and evenhanded account, Joel Shurkin introduces us to the often-feuding players and the discoveries that made the computer possible-from the first models to the creation of the chip and beyond. Here is the first full account of an invention that changed the world. For this new paperback edition, Shurkin has added an epilogue and a new chapter on the latest milestones in the ongoing computer revolution.

LC Classification NumberQA76.17.S49 1996