Who Invented the Computer? The Legal Battle That Changed Computing History
Contributors: Douglas R. Hofstadter (Foreword)
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: January 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 415
ISBN-13: 9781591020349
Subjects: General Theory of Computing; Patents Law; History; Microcomputers; Law; Computers - General Information; Patents; Computer Books: General; Patent suits; Computer Science; United States; Computer & Internet; Computers
First sentence: It was Monday, November 8, 1971, five months into the trial of Case 4-67 Civil 138 pitting Honeywell against Sperry Rand in the matter of the ENIAC patent.