Beyond calculation
Subtitle: the next fifty years of computing
By: Peter J. Denning, Robert M. Metcalfe ; foreword by James Burke.
Contributors: Metcalfe, Robert M., 1946-
Publisher: Copernicus
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
Subjects: Electronic data processing.; Computers.
Description: Jacket: "Twenty-four of the world's leading experts tell us about the future of computers in business, in science, and in our lives ... Paul W. Abrahams -- Franz L. Alt -- Gordon Bell -- John Seely Brown -- James Burke -- Vinton G. Cerf -- Donald D. Chamberlin -- Peter J. Denning -- Edsger W. Dijkstra -- Larry Druffel -- Bob O. Evans -- Fernando Flores -- Bob Frankston -- David Gelernter -- James N. Gray -- Richard W. Hamming -- William J. Mitchell -- Abbe Mowshowitz -- Donald A. Norman -- Oliver Strimpel -- Dennis Tsichritzis -- Sherry Turkle -- Mark Weiser -- Terry Winograd."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.