In the Beginning
Subtitle: Personal Recollections of Software Pioneers (Perspectives)
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Computer Society Pr
Published: November 30, 1997
Place of publication: Washington; Brussels; Tokyo
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780818679995
Subjects: History of engineering & technology; Impact of computing & IT on society; Software engineering; Software Development; Computers; Computers - General Information; Computer Books: General; History; Computers / General; Programming - Software Development; Computer software; Development; Electronic data processing per; Electronic data processing personnel
Table of contents: title: Life before software : a few reminiscences / David Myers; title: Software reflections : a pioneer's view of the history of the field / Robert L. Glass; title: Reflections on a software life / Watts S. Humphrey; title: How I watched in pain as IBM outsmarted UNIVAC / Norman F. Scneidewind; title: An early application generator and other recollections / Barry Boehm; title: View from below / Robert N. Britcher; title: Almost thirty years as a change agent / Donald J. Reifer; title: Leo, the first business computer : a personal experience / Frank Land; title: Compu-THEN : before megabytes / Ben G. Matley; title: Four anecdotes / Harold Joseph Highland; title: The prolonged metamorphosis of a software engineer / Robert L. Baber; title: Autobiographical snippets / John M. Bennett; title: Closing the circle / Bruce I. Blum; title: Before memory was virtual / Peter J. Denning; title: Growing up with software tools / Raymond C. Houghton