The Innovation in Computing Companion A Compendium of Select, Pivotal Inventions
Topics and features: Describes the development of Babbage’s computing machines, Leibniz’s binary arithmetic, Boole’s symbolic logic, and Von Neumann architecture Reviews a range of historical analog and digital computers, significant mainframes and minicomputers, and pioneering home and personal com...
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2018 |
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Table of Contents:
- Background
- ABC Computer
- Ada Programming Language
- Agile Methodology
- Amdahl 470 and 580
- Analytic and Difference Engines
- Apple II and Macintosh
- Intelligence and Applications
- Atari Video Games
- Automated Teller Machine
- AXE System
- Binary Number System
- Boolean Algebra and Digital Computing
- C and C++ Programming Languages
- Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems
- CMMI and Software Process Improvement
- Colossus and Code Breaking at Bletchley Park
- Commodore PET and 64
- COBOL and Compilers
- Databases
- DEC PDP 11 and VAX 11/780 Minicomputers
- Digital Photography
- EDVAC and ENIAC Computers
- Eliza Program
- Email Communication
- E-Commerce
- Formal Methods
- GPS System
- Graphical User Interface and Human Computer Interaction
- Harvard Mark I Computer
- Hollerith’s Tabulating Machine and the birth of IBM
- Integrated Circuits
- Internet
- Iridium System
- Java Programming Language
- LEO Computers
- Manchester Baby and Mark I Computers
- Microprocessor
- Mobile Phone
- Mouse
- Player and Digital Music
- MS/DOS Operating System
- Office Software
- Open Source Software
- Object-Oriented Paradigm
- Personal and Home Computers
- Robotics
- Smartphones and Social Media
- Software Inspections
- Software Lifecycles
- The System/360 Revolution
- Transistor
- UNIX Operating System
- Von Neumann Architecture
- WiFi Technology
- World Wide Web
- and Z4 Computers
- Epilogue