The Computer Revolution in Canada
Subtitle: Building National Technological Competence (History of Computing)
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: October 1, 2001
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass.
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 419
ISBN-13: 9780262220644
Subjects: Computing and Information Technology; Hi-tech manufacturing industries; History of specific subjects; Information technology industries; Microcomputers; Computers; Computers - General Information; Science/Mathematics; Canada - General; History; Technology / Social Aspects; Data Processing - General; Hardware - Personal Computers - General; Canada; Electronic Data Processing
First sentence: In December 1945, ENIAC, the first fully functional digital electronic computer, was put into operation.
Table of contents: title: Canadian Military Enterprise and the University; title: The Navy's Pursuit of Self-Reliance in Digital Electronics; title: Complexity and the Military Imperative to Miniaturize; title: Civilian Public Enterprise Encourages Domestic R & D in Digital Electronics; title: The Effort to Create a Canadian Computer Industry; title: The Sperry Gyroscope Company of Canada and Computer Numerical Control; title: The Dilemma of "Buying" Mandated Subsidiaries: The Case of the Control Data Corporation