epub |eng | 2012-07-25 | Author:Lars Nielsen [Nielsen, Lars]

9 Bring on the Clones "A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila." - Mitch ...

epub |eng | | Author:Gerard O'Regan

9.4 Object-Oriented Languages Object-oriented programming is a paradigm shift in programming. The traditional view of programming is that a program is a collection of functions or a list of instructions ...

epub |eng | 2015-03-10 | Author:Marshall, Stephen

The UNIVAC Solid-State Despite IBM’s achievements in transistor technology and the huge financial investment made by the company in solid-state devices, the first computer manufacturer to enter the market with ...

epub |eng | 2003-04-29 | Author:Mindell, David A. [Mindell, David A.]

Fig. 7.2. Vannevar Bush’s “antiaircraft problem”: schematic of antiaircraft-system elements from a promotion for Western Electric’s M-9 electrical gun director ca. 1944. Enemy plane (1) is spotted and followed by ...

epub |eng | 2017-04-14 | Author:Dennis Tenen [Tenen, Dennis]

PROGRAMMABLE MEDIA To begin, we need some background on telegraphy. The turn of the twentieth century was a pivotal period in the history of letters. It saw the languages of ...

epub |eng | 2018-03-16 | Author:Mel Croucher & Robin Evans

With nods to Robin’s heroes Donald McGill and Leo Baxendale. 127 : SUMMER SPECIAL : cover date September 1998 Mel comes up with a new format, completely based on word-play. ...

epub |eng | | Author:Aristotle Tympas

5.2 “A Perfect Poem: The Most Lovely Exposition of Mathematics in Simple Form” The leadership of General Electric ’s Charles Proteus Steinmetz and Harvard-MIT’s Arthur Edwin Kennelly during the first ...

epub |eng | | Author:Paul Gannon

chapter seventeen Fish Dialects Bletchley Park was a particularly unmilitary institution. In many ways, it was more like a university or a commercial research laboratory than a unit of the ...

epub |eng | 2016-11-28 | Author:Jones, Matthew L.

Practice and Politics in Embodying Theoretical Knowledge Choosing the shape and number of teeth for gears was a central locus in the eighteenth century for the assertion of scientific authority ...

epub, azw3, mobi |eng | | Author:Gordon Corera

CHAPTER TWELVE BRITAIN AND THE CYBER SPIES There was ‘jubilation’ as the message winged its way from northern India to New York. It was short and simple: ‘Hello from Dharamsala’ ...

epub |eng | 2013-04-22 | Author:Schmidt, Eric & Cohen, Jared [Schmidt, Eric]

Sudden access to technology does not in and of itself enable radicalized individuals to become cyber terrorists. There is a technical skills barrier that, to date, has forestalled an explosion ...

epub |eng | 2010-05-30 | Author:Steven Levy [Levy, Steven]

Ken and Jay would be talking about the intricacies of some aspect of programming language—like trying to figure out, when somebody says “List by customer,” what that really means. Does ...

epub |eng | 2013-07-09 | Author:Martin Campbell-Kelly; William Aspray; Nathan Ensmenger; Jeffrey R. Yost [Yost, Martin Campbell-Kelly; William Aspray; Nathan Ensmenger; Jeffrey R.]

THE SOFTWARE CRISIS The emergence of a software contracting industry helped alleviate one of the most immediate challenges associated with programming computers—namely, finding enough experienced programmers to do the work. ...

mobi |eng | 2000-11-29 | Author:Paul Freiberger & Michael Swaine [Swaine, Paul Freiberger and Michael]

Then, too, they could see that it might be a commercial success. So Cooper built and Kildall programmed, and they came up with their astrology machine, which would stand in ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2000-06-01 | Author:Tracy Kidder [Kidder, Tracy]

THE WONDERFUL MICROMACHINES To almost everything they touched, the Microteam attached their prefix. The office that four of them shared, sitting virtually knee to knee, had a sign on the ...