Isbn: 9780262032629 - howard aiken: portrait of a computer pioneer (history of computing) (4 Ergebnisse)

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, Hardcover/Pappeinband. Zustand: Sehr gut. 329 Seiten Fresh and clean hardcover copy - former library copy - in good condition. Contents - Preface - Acknowledgments - The Names ''ASCC'' and ''Mark I'' - Introduction to a Pioneer - Early Life and Education - A Harvard Graduate Student - First Steps Toward a New Type of Calculating Machine - An Unsuccessful Attempt to Get the Machine Built - Seeking Support from IBM - The Proposal for an Automatic Calculating Machine - Aiken's Background in Computing and Knowledge of Babbage's Machines - Planning and Beginning the Construction of the Machine - How to Perform Multiplication and Division by Machine - Construction of the Machine - Installing the ASCC/Mark I in Cambridge and Transferring It to the Navy - Aiken at the Naval Mine Warfare School - The Dedication - The Aftermath - Some Features of Mark I - Programming and Staffing, Wartime Operation, and the Implosion Computations - The Mystery of the Number 23 - Tables of Bessel Functions - Aiken's Harvard Program in Computer Science - Later Relations between Aiken and IBM - Aiken at Harvard, 1945--1961 - Life in the Comp Lab - Retirement from Harvard - Businessman and Consultant - A Summing Up - A The Harvard News Release - B Aiken's Talk at the Dedication - C Aiken's Memorandum Describing the Harvard Computation Laboratory - D The Stored Program and the Binary Number System - E Aiken's Three Later Machines - F How Many Computers Are Needed? - G The NSF Computer Tree - H Who Invented the Computer? Was Mark I a Computer? - I The Harvard Computation Laboratory during the 1950s ISBN 9780262032629 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 765.…

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