History of Computer Devices in Russia
Contributors: Georg Trogemann (Editor); Alexander Y. Nitussov (Editor); Wolfgang Ernst (Editor); Alexander  Y. Nitussov (Translator)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: GWV-Vieweg
Published: September 10, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9783528057572
Subjects: Computing and Information Technology; History; Computers; Computer Science (General); Programming - Software Development; Computers - General Information; Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union; Computer Books: General; Russia; Computers / General; Information Technology; Russia (Federation); Computer Science; Electronic data processing; Electronic digital computers
First sentence: The genealogy of the computer and computing sciences as associated with names such as Charles Babbage, Alan Turing, Norbert Wiener, Heinz v. Foerster, Claude Shannon and John v. Neumann has been the object of an impressive number of media-archaeological publications in the German-speaking and Anglo-American areas, but in general the historiography of computing is - even a decennium after the fall of the Iron Curtain - still blind in respect to Eastern Europe.