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This volume presents proceedings from the 19th IFIP World Computer Congress in Santiago, Chile. The proceedings of the World Computer Congress are a product of the gathering of 2,000 delegates from more than 70 countries to discuss a myriad of topics in the ICT domain. Of particular note, this marks the first time that a World Computer Congress has been held in a Latin American country.

Topics in this series include:

- The 4th International Conference on Theoretical Computer Science

- Education for the 21st Century- Impact of ICT and Digital Resources

- Mobile and Wireless Communication Networks

- Ad-Hoc Networking

- Network Control and Engineering for QoS, Security, and Mobility

- The Past and Future of Information Systems: 1976-2006 and Beyond

- History of Computing and Education

- Biologically Inspired Cooperative Computing

- Artificial Intelligence in Theory and Practice

- Applications in Artificial Intelligence

- Advanced Software Engineering: Expanding the Frontiers of Software

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Complementing the author's 1990 bibliography, this volume provides 2,500 new citations, covering all significant literature published since the late 1980s. It includes all aspects of the subject--biographies, company histories, industry studies, product descriptions, sociological studies, industry directories, and traditional monographic histories--and covers all periods from the beginnings to the personal computer. New to this volume is a chapter on the management of information processing operations, useful to both historians and managers of information technology. Together with the earlier bibliography, this work provides the most comprehensive bibliographic guide to the history of computers, computing, and the information processing industry. ... Read more

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The first conference of the UK branch of the Association of History and Computing brought together archivists, computer specialists and history teachers from all levels of education. This book contains a selection of the presentations from that meeting demonstrating the "state-of-the-art" in historical computing in the specific area of databases. The themes discussed include the nature of historical databases, their creation from historical sources, their analysis in research in political, urban and medical history, and their exploitation in teaching. The contributions are grouped in sections on sources, methods, teaching and research. The section on methods makes a contribution to the debate about classification and coding. The final essay situates the field of historical computing within the discipline of history. ... Read more

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After World War II, other major industrialized nations responded to the technological and industrial hegemony of the United States by developing their own design and manufacturing competence in digital electronic technology. In this book John Vardalas describes the quest for such competence in Canada, exploring the significant contributions of the civilian sector but emphasizing the role of the Canadian military in shaping radical technological change. As he shows, Canada’s determination to be an active participant in research and development work on advanced weapons systems, and in the testing of those weapons systems, was a cornerstone of Canadian technological development during the years 1945-1980. Vardalas presents case studies of such firms as Ferranti-Canada, Sperry Gyroscope of Canada, and Control Data of Canada. In contrast to the standard nationalist interpretation of Canadian subsidiaries of transnational corporations as passive agents, he shows them to have been remarkably innovative and explains how their aggressive programs to develop all-Canadian digital R&D and manufacturing capacities influenced technological development in the United States and in Great Britain. While underlining the unprecedented role of the military in the creation of peacetime scientific and technical skills, Vardalas also examines the role of government and university research programs, including Canada’s first computerized systems for mail sorting and airline reservations. Overall, he presents a nuanced account of how national economic, political, and corporate forces influenced the content, extent, and direction of digital innovation in Canada. ... Read more

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This volume presents proceedings from the 19th IFIP World Computer Congress in Santiago, Chile. The proceedings of the World Computer Congress are a product of the gathering of 2,000 delegates from more than 70 countries to discuss a myriad of topics in the ICT domain. Of particular note, this marks the first time that a World Computer Congress has been held in a Latin American country.

Topics in this series include:

• The 4th International Conference on Theoretical Computer Science
• Education for the 21st Century- Impact of ICT and Digital Resources
• Mobile and Wireless Communication Networks
• Ad-Hoc Networking
• Network Control and Engineering for QoS, Security, and Mobility
• The Past and Future of Information Systems: 1976-2006 and Beyond
• History of Computing and Education
• Biologically Inspired Cooperative Computing
• Artificial Intelligence in Theory and Practice
• Applications in Artificial Intelligence
• Advanced Software Engineering: Expanding the Frontiers of Software

For a complete list of the more than 300 titles in the IFIP Series, visit springer.com.

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Fudgeballs and Other Sweets
Back cover reads:
Princess, the poodle, had a perfectly glorious life, a dog's life in fact...
Until that annoying bulldog, Jake, moved in next door.
Jenny McNeill had a perfectly glorious life, a life every successful woman might dream of, until that irritating Dave Kasada moved next door. With his dog.
Then a baby was abandoned on her doorstep. And Jenny's biological clock began to tck loudly. And Dave began to look more and more appealing, and Jenny wasn't even going to think about what tricks the dogs were up to! She needed to concentrate on her candy business! Candy was good. Candy was her future. Candy, not sexy Dave, was what she should be thinking about!
But all the while she couldn't help thinking Dave looked awfully sweet and tempting...

If it's a dog's life, we should be so lucky!
This little book is a total hoot, especially when we're in the dog's pointof view.The imagry and humor in Fudgeballs is superbly done and one canbelieve this is actually the way dogs think.

As for the romance betweenDave and Jenny, and their misunderstanding, it was cleverly done and keptyou on your seat wondering when our hero and heroine were going to figureout who was supposedly moving.Given the subject, though, I think I gainedten pounds just reading about all that delicious fudge!

Gee...I wonderwhat bull-poodles really look like? -Lee Emory ... Read more

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Using Computers in History is designed to introduce students to historical computing through practical workshop exercise. Using examples such as the performance of the American and German economies in the 1930s, the working-class pattern of nineteenth-century emigration and the cotton industry, the authors explain and illustrate the range of computing possibilities available to the contemporary historian.
Using Computers in History:
* raises awareness of the use of the computer as an important tool for the historian
* includes spreadsheet exercises based around a range of historical data sets
* explores the use of databases and shows how to construct them
*prompts students to apply the skills they have learnt to a number of examples.

This new edition is updated throughout to take into consideration the latest technological developments, and includes a new chapter on using the Internet and its use as a tool for studying, researching and teaching history. Also included is an accessible introduction to quantitative methods. ... Read more

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A Good Writer's Reference
The book has 368 pages, almost entirely dates and three or four-line descriptions of key computer development events, plusfrequent photos and illustrations.

I bought this for my reference library since I write occasional articles on the history of technology in my consulting practice. It serves as a very useful reference, but very few would choose to read through the book.

Interesting stuff, if you can filter out the less important.
I learned a lot by going through all the "milestones" in thisbook. Unfortunately, there are a few errors. I was surprised to read thatDr. Spencer teaches computer science, as his explanations of some technicalnotions were a bit off the mark; perhaps this is just his attempt at makingthe material accessible to the "uninitiated". The book was notcarefully checked for typos, duplicate information, and even events thatappear in more than one year!

However, I still enjoyed reading the book.It did help me put some things in perspective. This might be a good on-lineproject, so that the reader could filter the time line to only include newmachine introductions, or salaries, or computer company revenues, orprocessor speeds, or whatever. ... Read more

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An international journal published in association with CHArt. ... Read more

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Webster's bibliographic and event-based timelines are comprehensive in scope, covering virtually all topics, geographic locations and people. They do so from a linguistic point of view, and in the case of this book, the focus is on "Micro-computers," including when used in literature (e.g. all authors that might have Micro-computers in their name). As such, this book represents the largest compilation of timeline events associated with Micro-computers when it is used in proper noun form. Webster's timelines cover bibliographic citations, patented inventions, as well as non-conventional and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities in usage. These furthermore cover all parts of speech (possessive, institutional usage, geographic usage) and contexts, including pop culture, the arts, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This "data dump" results in a comprehensive set of entries for a bibliographic and/or event-based timeline on the proper name Micro-computers, since editorial decisions to include or exclude events is purely a linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under "fair use" conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain. ... Read more

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Webster's bibliographic and event-based timelines are comprehensive in scope, covering virtually all topics, geographic locations and people. They do so from a linguistic point of view, and in the case of this book, the focus is on "Human-computer," including when used in literature (e.g. all authors that might have Human-computer in their name). As such, this book represents the largest compilation of timeline events associated with Human-computer when it is used in proper noun form. Webster's timelines cover bibliographic citations, patented inventions, as well as non-conventional and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities in usage. These furthermore cover all parts of speech (possessive, institutional usage, geographic usage) and contexts, including pop culture, the arts, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This "data dump" results in a comprehensive set of entries for a bibliographic and/or event-based timeline on the proper name Human-computer, since editorial decisions to include or exclude events is purely a linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under "fair use" conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain. ... Read more

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No other technology in history has changed human life so quickly andon such a vast scale as the computer. The ways people communicate, work, buy and sell, advertise, entertain themselves, commit crimes, vote, learn, worship, fall in love, make communities, spy, and wage war are all being transformed by the ongoing Computer Revolution. (20030501) ... Read more

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Webster's bibliographic and event-based timelines are comprehensive in scope, covering virtually all topics, geographic locations and people. They do so from a linguistic point of view, and in the case of this book, the focus is on "Computer-related," including when used in literature (e.g. all authors that might have Computer-related in their name). As such, this book represents the largest compilation of timeline events associated with Computer-related when it is used in proper noun form. Webster's timelines cover bibliographic citations, patented inventions, as well as non-conventional and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities in usage. These furthermore cover all parts of speech (possessive, institutional usage, geographic usage) and contexts, including pop culture, the arts, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This "data dump" results in a comprehensive set of entries for a bibliographic and/or event-based timeline on the proper name Computer-related, since editorial decisions to include or exclude events is purely a linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under "fair use" conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain. ... Read more

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This beautifully designed, finely produced, and extensively illustrated book describes a library of technical reports, books, pamphlets, ephemera, letters, typescripts, manuscripts, prints, photographs, blueprints, and medals on the history of computing, networking, and related aspects of telecommunications. The material it describes ranges chronologically from 1613 to about 1970. There are 1411 annotated entries.

Few of the bibliographies of scientific and technological classics consulted by twentieth-century science collectors included any representation of computing. Harrison Horblit’s One Hundred Books Famous in Science and Printing and the Mind of Man cited only the seventeenth century invention of logarithms by John Napier relative to the history of computing. Bern Dibner’s Heralds of Science also cited that and Napier’s Rabdologiae. En Français dans le texte ignored the topic of computing entirely. Hook and Norman’s catalogue of The Haskell F. Norman Library of Science and Medicine also included the writings of Napier and a few works by Charles Babbage. Haskell Norman’s One Hundred Books Famous in Medicine cited one computer-related reference. Morton’s Medical Bibliography, fifth edition, edited by Jeremy Norman, included a handful of references to computing in medicine. Dibner, Printing and the Mind of Man, and Hook and Norman also contained a few references to the telegraph and the telephone.

One reason why the traditional reference works for collectors of the history of science ignored computing is that most of these were written around the middle of the twentieth century before computing was pervasive. Dibner first published Heralds of Science in 1955. Horblit based his book on an exhibition at the Grolier Club held in 1958. The Printing and the Mind of Man exhibition was held in 1963. Though we published the catalogue of the Haskell F. Norman library in 1991, Dr. Norman began forming his library around 1955. In book selection he was profoundly influenced by the works just mentioned, and also by William Osler’s Bibliotheca Osleriana, posthumously published in 1929, but describing a library formed before Osler’s death in 1919. Another work equally influential on Dr. Norman was the catalogue of the library of Harvey Cushing. Virtually the only books relevant to computing in the Osler and Cushing libraries were also the writings of John Napier.

Collecting new subjects such as computing, networking and telecommunications involved collecting types of documents that had not typically been included in private libraries of rare science books. To describe a library that broke new paths, combining manuscripts, typescripts, and photographs with printed and duplicated material produced by a wide variety of methods, from traditional letterpress to mimeograph, blueprint, ditto, and photocopying, we found it necessary to employ a variety of bibliographical and organizational techniques that had not typically been combined in this way. These techniques included traditional descriptive bibliography, bio-bibliography, and what might be called descriptive or annotation techniques found in some catalogues of museum or rare book library exhibitions. Throughout the diversity of Origins of Cyberspace we created an elaborate system of cross-references that was only possible in a work of this complexity because the software maintained the integrity of the cross-references throughout the editorial process.

When we wrote this book the convergence of electronic media and computing technologies through the Internet had begun so recently that there had been no previous bibliographic effort to document this development for rare book collectors. Nor had there been documented efforts to collect the history of these subjects before the Internet was established. The only significant bibliographies of private collections of rare books concerning aspects of computing or telecommunications were the catalogues of the libraries of Sir Francis Ronalds and Latimer Clark, which were formed before the end of the nineteenth century. Both of these libraries collected the history of electricity, magnetism, and telegraphy. Yet convergence of electronic media through the Internet drew our attention to historical relationships between electronic media. One of the most basic was that telegraph networks were the first data networks for the communication of information. The Morse code may be viewed as the first widely used data code. Around the time that the world began to be fully wired for telegraphy, Hertz in 1887 theorized the possibility of wireless transmission. In 1895, having read Hertz’s work, Marconi invented wireless telegraphy, later called radio. Initially what was transmitted over radio was telegraph code.

The merging of wireless transmission and information processing was made about one hundred years after the invention of wireless telegraphy, when the Internet enabled computers to evolve into personal communication devices. For this to occur a complex series of technological advances had to take place, only the most basic of these could be briefly summarized here. The telephone, an analog device, had to be invented (1878), and telephone network technology had to evolve. The electronic digital computer had to be invented (1943–45), and computing technology had to develop for about fifty years. Data networks using telephone lines had to advance in parallel with computing, leading to the formation of of the first national network of mainframes, ARPANET, in 1969. This would eventually lead to development of the Internet in the 1980s. From their beginning in 1977, cellular telephone networks had to be developed. About fifty years after the invention of electronic digital computing, wireless handheld information processors with Internet connections had to be invented. Digital telephone networks had to be built in addition to traditional analog telephone networks, enabling the invention of wireless digital telephones with web browsers.

Through these, and many other necessary complex technical developments, such as increases in bandwidth and satellite communications, and a multitude of advances in software, overall features of the wired and wireless Internet could be traced back through the history of computing and telephone to telegraphy. It was a coincidence, and a remarkable demonstration of the extent to which these major fields had been ignored by collectors and descriptive bibliographers, that approximately one hundred years before this bibliography was written, the history of telegraphy had been the subject of the only two bibliographies of major private libraries that contained more than a few items relevant to the Origins of Cyberspace. It was also amazing, but most probably true, that prior to Origins of Cyberspace the only published catalogue of a private library that focused on subjects directly concerning the history of computing, rather than the history of mathematics, except for the auction catalogue of the Weinreb sale in 1999, was the auction catalogue of the library of Charles Babbage published in 1872.

81/2 x 11 inches. x, 670pp. mostly printed in two columns. 284 illustrations. Printed in two colors throughout on Fortune Matte 80 pound acid-free paper. Bound in heavy cloth with silver stamping. ISBN 0-930405-85-4. Edition limited to 500 copies. Price: $500. ... Read more

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Traces the history of computers from the earliest calculating machines to current stages of development with artificial intelligence. ... Read more