Transforming Computer Technology
Subtitle: Information Processing for the Pentagon, 1962-1986 (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: February 29, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780801863691
Subjects: American history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Central government policies; General Theory of Computing; Impact of computing & IT on society; c 1960 to c 1970; c 1970 to c 1980; c 1980 to c 1990; Information Technology; Computers; Computers - General Information; Computer Books: General; USA; History; Science / History
First sentence: We need at the outset to distinguish this book from an earlier report we wrote on the history of IPTO, A History of the Information Processing Techniques Office of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Minneapolis, Minn.: Charles Babbage Institute, 1992), researched and written under a contract issued by the Department of Defense (NASA-Ames Research Grant NAG 2-532, subcontract USC/PO 473764).