The First Computers
Subtitle: History and Architectures
By: edited by Raul Rojas and Ulf Hashagen
Contributors: Raúl Rojas (Editor); Ulf Hashagen (Editor)
Edition: New Ed edition
Series: History of computing
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: August 7, 2002
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass.
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 471
ISBN-13: 9780262681377
Subjects: Computer architecture & logic design; History of engineering & technology; History of specific subjects; Computers; Technology & Industrial Arts; Computer Books: General; Automation; General; History; Science / History; Computer Architecture - General; Computer Engineering
Table of contents: title: A preview of things to come : some remarks on the first generation of computers / Michael R. Williams; title: The structures of computation / Michael S. Mahoney; title: Reconstructions, historical and otherwise : the challenge of high-tech artifacts / Robert W. Seidel; title: A classification scheme for program controlled calculators / Andreas Brennecke; title: Hardware components and computer design / Harry D. Huskey; title: Reconstruction of the Atanasoff-Berry computer / John Gustafson; title: Howard Aiken and the dawn of the computer age / I. Bernard Cohen; title: The ENIAC : history, operation, and reconstruction in VLSI / Jan Van der Spiegel ... [et al.]; title: The Institute for Advanced Study computer : a case study in the application of concepts from the history of technology / William Aspray; title: "Nothing new since von Neumann" : a historian looks at computer architecture, 1945-1995 / Paul Ceruzzi; title: The DEHOMAG D11 tabulator : a milestone in the history of data processing / Friedrich W. Kistermann; title: The architecture of Konrad Zuse's early computing machines / Raúl Rojas; title: Konrad Zuse's Z4 : architecture, programming, and modificatios at the ETH Zurich / Ambros P. Speiser; title: The plankalkül of Konrad Zuse revisited / Friedrich L. Bauer; title: The G1 and the Göttingen family of digital computers / Wilhelm Hopmann; title: Konrad Zuse and industrial manufacturing of electronic computers in Germany / Hartmut Petzold; title: Helmut Hoelzer : inventor of the electronic analog computer / Thomas Lange; title: The colossus of Bletchley Park : the German cipher system / Anthony E. Sale; title: The Manchester Mark 1 computers / R.B.E. Napper; title: Rebuilding the first Manchester computer / Christopher P. Burton; title: The Atlas computer / Frank H. Sumner; title: Past into present : the EDSAC simulator / Martin Campbell-Kelly; title: The first Japanese computers and their software simulators / Seichi Okoma; title: The parametron computer PC-1 and its initial input routine / Eiiti Wada