Search results for “[Subject: computers-technology]”

• Author(s): Jon Agar • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Computer ScienceAn examination of technology and politics in the evolution of the British "government machine."In The Government Machine, Jon Agar traces the me...

• Author(s): Emerson W. Pugh • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Hardware - Mainframes & MinicomputersIBM's 360 and Early 370 Systems describes the creation of this remarkable system and the developments it ...

• Author(s): Donald MacKenzie • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Computer ScienceMost aspects of our private and social lives--our safety, the integrity of the financial system, the functioning of utilities and other s...

• Author(s): Thierry Poibeau • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • Subject: Computer Science and Information Technology • BISAC: Artificial Intelligence - Natural Language ProcessingA concise, nontechnical overview of the develo...

• Author(s): Raymond S. Nickerson • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Interactive & MultimediaIndustry veteran Raymond Nickerson provides an extensive introduction to the information technology revolution that is tr...

• Author(s): Kai A. Olsen • Publisher: Scarecrow Press • Publisher Imprint: Scarecrow Press • BISAC: Information TechnologyHow Information Technology Is Conquering the World focuses on the interface between the technologies and the real world in ...

• Author(s): Paul E. Ceruzzi • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: History

• Author(s): Howard Rheingold • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Social AspectsIn a highly engaging style, Rheingold tells the story of what he calls the patriarchs, pioneers, and infonauts of the computer, focusing in...

• Author(s): Jonathan Allen | Frank Thomson Leighton • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Logic DesignThe field of VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) is concerned with the design, production, and use of highly complex i...

• Author(s): Arlindo Oliveira • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Intelligence (AI) & SemanticsHow developments in science and technology may enable the emergence of purely digital minds--intelligent machines equal ...

• Author(s): Nathan L. Ensmenger • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: HistoryThe contentious history of the computer programmers who developed the software that made the computer revolution possible.This is a book about ...

• Author(s): Leo Anthony G. Celi • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Public HealthKey concepts, frameworks, examples, and lessons learned in designing and implementing health information and communication techno...

• Author(s): Gerald J. Popek • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Computer ScienceLOCUS, a distributed version of the popular operating system Unix, provides an excellent solution. It makes a collection of computers, whe...

• Author(s): Patrik Svensson | David Theo Goldberg • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Social AspectsScholars from a range of disciplines offer an expansive vision of the intersections between new information technologi...

• Author(s): Jerry L. Potter | Dennis B. Gannon • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Computer ScienceThe development of parallel processing, with the attendant technology of advanced software engineering, VLSI circuits, ...

• Author(s): Yasmin B. Kafai • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Teaching - Subjects - Science & TechnologyWhy every child needs to learn to code: the shift from “computational thinking” to computational par...

• Author(s): Julien Mailland | Kevin Driscoll • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Internet - GeneralThe first scholarly book in English on Minitel, the pioneering French computer network, offers a history of a technical...

• Author(s): Thomas H. Cormen • Publisher: Mit Press • Publisher Imprint: Mit Press • BISAC: Programming - AlgorithmsFor anyone who has ever wondered how computers solve problems, an engagingly written guide for nonexperts to the basics of comput...

• Author(s): Michael E. Hobart | Zachary S. Schiffman • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: HistoryA grand intellectual history from clay tablets to Bill Gates.Selected by Choice ...

• Author(s): Meredith Broussard • Publisher: Mit Press • Publisher Imprint: Mit Press • BISAC: Artificial Intelligence - GeneralA software developer's misadventures in computer programming, machine learning, and artificial intelligence reveal why...

• Author(s): Rebecca Slayton • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Military ScienceHow differing assessments of risk by physicists and computer scientists have influenced public debate over nuclear defense. In a rapidly c...

• Author(s): S. Joshi • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Industrial EngineeringWith the approach of the 21st century, and the current trends in manufacturing, the role of computer-controlled flexible manufacturing an int...

• Author(s): Zabet Patterson • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: HistoryHow the S-C 4020--a mainframe peripheral intended to produce scientific visualizations--shaped a series of early computer art projects that emerged...

• Author(s): David L. Ferro | Eric G. Swedin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Science Fiction & Fantasy The prevalence of science fiction readership among those who create and program ...

• Author(s): Thomas Sterling • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Programming Languages - GeneralComprehensive guides to the latest Beowulf tools and methodologies. Beowulf clusters, which exploit mass-market PC hardware...