Book ID: CBB517749535

A New History of Modern Computing: How the Computer Became Universal. (2021)

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Over the past fifty years, the computer has been transformed from a hulking scientific supertool and data processing workhorse, remote from the experiences of ordinary people, to a diverse family of devices that billions rely on to play games, shop, stream music and movies, communicate, and count their steps. In A New History of Modern Computing, Thomas Haigh and Paul Ceruzzi trace these changes. A comprehensive reimagining of Ceruzzi's A History of Modern Computing, this new volume uses each chapter to recount one such transformation, describing how a particular community of users and producers remade the computer into something new.Haigh and Ceruzzi ground their accounts of these computing revolutions in the longer and deeper history of computing technology. They begin with the story of the 1945 ENIAC computer, which introduced the vocabulary of “programs” and “programming,” and proceed through email, pocket calculators, personal computers, the World Wide Web, videogames, smart phones, and our current world of computers everywhere—in phones, cars, appliances, watches, and more. Finally, they consider the Tesla Model S as an object that simultaneously embodies many strands of computing.

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Review Victor Petrov (2023) Review of "A New History of Modern Computing: How the Computer Became Universal.". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 219-220). unapi

Review Martina Heßler (April 2022) Review of "A New History of Modern Computing: How the Computer Became Universal.". Technology and Culture (pp. 580-581). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Coeckelbergh, Mark
Jessa Lingel
Wiltshire, Alex
Alan F. Blackwell
Ethem Alpaydın
Stewart, Andrew J.
Concepts
Technology and society
Computers and computing
Technology, general histories
Computer networks
Artificial intelligence
Machine learning
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
Modern
Places
Africa, Sub-Sahara
Netherlands
France
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