This book covers modern computing from the development of the first electronic digital computer through the dot-com crash. The author concentrates on five key moments of transition: the transformation ...
On Oct. 3, 1950, three scientists at Bell Labs in New Jersey received a U.S. patent for what would become one of the most important inventions of the 20th century — the transistor. John Bardeen, ...
Inventing the computer -- The computer becomes a scientific supertool -- The computer becomes a data processing device -- The computer becomes a real-time control system -- The computer becomes an ...
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