The technical and social history of software engineering
"Capers Jones has accumulated the most comprehensive data on every aspect of software engineering, and has performed the most scientific analysis on this data. Now, Capers performs yet another invaluable service to our industry, by documenting, for the first time, its long and fascinating histo...
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Upper Saddle River, NJ
Addison-Wesley
2014
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Table of Contents:
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Prelude: Computing from ancient times to the modern era
- 1930 to 1939: The foundations of digital computing
- 1940 to 1949: Computing during World War II and the postwar era
- 1950 to 1959: Starting the ascent of digital computers and software
- 1960 to 1969: The rise of business computers and business software
- 1970 to 1979: Computers and software begin creating wealth
- 1980 to 1989: The rise of personal computers and personal software
- 1990 to 1999: Expansion of the World Wide Web and the rise of the dot-coms
- 2000 to 2009: The rise of social networks and economic crises
- 2010 to 2019: Clouds, crowds, blogs, big data, and predictive analytics
- Modern software problems
- A brief history of cybercrime and cyberwarfare