The World of the Computer
By: Edited by John Diebold
Edition: First edition
Publisher: Random House
Published: October 20, 1973
Place of publication: New York City, New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 457
Copyright date: 1972
Subjects: Electronic data processing.; Electronic digital computers.; Computers and civilization.
First sentence: The computer is entering its second quarter-century and its fourth generation.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
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Printing statement: "First Edition".
Table of contents: label: Introduction
title: John Diebold
pagenum: 3; label: I. The Computer Past Present and Future
pagenum: 19; label: Introduction to Section I
title: John Diebold
pagenum: 20; label: The Life of a Philosopher
title: Charles Babbage
pagenum: 26; label: The Analytical Engine
title: Jeremy Bernstein
pagenum: 35; label: Preliminary Discussion of the Logical Design of an Electronic Computing Instrument
title: Arthur W. Burkes, Herman H. Goldstine, John von Neumann
pagenum: 44; label: Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (U.S. Patent)
title: John Presper Eckert, Jr. and John W. Mauchly
pagenum: 83; label: Automation—The Advent of the Automatic Factory
title: John Diebold
pagenum: 86; label: II. Computers in Use
pagenum: 95; label: Introduction to Section II
title: John Diebold
pagenum: 96; label: The Long-Range Effect of the Computer
title: Frederic G. Withington
pagenum: 100; label: Unions, Employers and the Computer
title: Abraham J. Siegel
pagenum: 119; label: The Corporation: Will it be Managed by Machines?
title: Herbert A. Simon
pagenum: 128; label: Computers in State Government
title: Alvin Kaltman
pagenum: 158; label: Arrival of the Sale-Counter Computer
title: Ron Brown
pagenum: 171; label: The Little Railroad that Could
title: Charles G. Burck
pagenum: 179; label: Automated Highways: What is the Dream and How do We Reach it?
title: Siegfreid M. Breuning
pagenum: 187; label: Education Automation: Freeing the Scholar to Return to His Studies
title: R. Buckminster Fuller
pagenum: 196; label: Technology is Knocking at the Schoolhouse Door
title: Charles E. Silberman
pagenum: 203; label: How Three-Year-Olds Teach Themselves to Read and Write—and Love it
title: Maya Pines
pagenum: 225; label: The Computer’s Role in Health Service Research
title: G. Octo Barnett, Jerome H. Grossman, Robert A. Greenes
pagenum: 239; label: Medical Transition
title: Michael Crichton
pagenum: 246; label: Myoelectric Control
title: D.S. Halacy, Jr.
pagenum: 274; label: The Uses of Computers in Science
title: Anthony G. Oettinger
pagenum: 286; label: Computers in the Library: Project Intrex and its Planning Conference
title: Carl F.J. Overage and Joyce Harman, eds.
pagenum: 298; label: Computers and the Muse of Literature
title: Stephen M. Parrish
pagenum: 312; label: III. The Computer’s Impact on Society
pagenum: 325; label: Introduction to Section III
title: John Diebold
pagenum: 326; label: Machines and Societies
title: D.M. Mackay
pagenum: 329; label: Must Automation Bring Unemployment?
title: Paul Einzig
pagenum: 335; label: The Chalenge of Automation to Education for Human Values
title: Margaret Mead
pagenum: 345; label: Technology, Life and Leisure
title: Dennis Gabor
pagenum: 349; label: The Hard Road to Soft Automation
title: Tom Alexander
pagenum: 364; label: Data Banks and Dossiers
title: Carl Kaysen
pagenum: 379; label: The Wisdom of Man and the Wisdom of God
title: Kenneth E. Boulding
pagenum: 389; label: The Obsolescence of Man
title: Arthur C. Clarke
pagenum: 396; label: IV. Computers and the Intelligence Argument
pagenum: 412; label: Introduction to Section IV
title: John Diebold
pagenum: 413; label: The Many Faces of Intelligence
title: Donald G. Fink
pagenum: 415; label: Computer Machinery and Intelligence
title: Allan M. Turing
pagenum: 419; label: Tmitation of Man by Machine
title: Ulric Neisser
pagenum: 438; label: God and Golem, Inc.
title: Norbert Wiener
pagenum: 450