Author: Steven Levy Publisher: O'Reilly Media ISBN: 1449393802 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 430
Book Description
This 25th anniversary edition of Steven Levy's classic book traces the exploits of the computer revolution's original hackers -- those brilliant and eccentric nerds from the late 1950s through the early '80s who took risks, bent the rules, and pushed the world in a radical new direction. With updated material from noteworthy hackers such as Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Richard Stallman, and Steve Wozniak, Hackers is a fascinating story that begins in early computer research labs and leads to the first home computers. Levy profiles the imaginative brainiacs who found clever and unorthodox solutions to computer engineering problems. They had a shared sense of values, known as "the hacker ethic," that still thrives today. Hackers captures a seminal period in recent history when underground activities blazed a trail for today's digital world, from MIT students finagling access to clunky computer-card machines to the DIY culture that spawned the Altair and the Apple II.
Author: Edmund Callis Berkeley Publisher: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday ISBN: Category : Information storage and retrieval systems Languages : en Pages : 274
Author: Benjamin B. Wells Publisher: Nova Publishers ISBN: 9781560724988 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 196
Book Description
This timely book examines the computer revolution as it relates to each of its main areas of application. The author presents a well-honed analysis of the expectations and realisations of this extraordinary device. Revolutions seldom proceed according to a preset plan and the computer revolution is no exception. This book is essential reading for gaining an understanding of where they are now and where they may be expected to be tomorrow. Contents includes: Preface; Revolutionary Promises; The Quest for Machines that Think, Learn and Teach; Computers in the Classroom; Computers in the Classroom: Educators' Approaches; Computers and Intuition; The Romance of Computers; Educational Software; Computer Games; The Electronic Classroom; Computers for Research; Armageddon: The Year 2000; and Conclusions.
Author: David A. Grier Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 0470080353 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 50
Book Description
Based on author David A. Grier's column "In Our Time," which runs monthly in Computer magazine, Too Soon To Tell presents a collection of essays skillfully written about the computer age, an era that began February 1946. Examining ideas that are both contemporary and timeless, these chronological essays examine the revolutionary nature of the computer, the relation between machines and human institutions, and the connections between fathers and sons to provide general readers with a picture of a specific technology that attempted to rebuild human institutions in its own image.
Author: Zenon W. Pylyshyn Publisher: Intellect Books ISBN: 9780893913694 Category : Electronic data processing Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
This is a completely revised and updated edition of this text designed to introduce students to the historical, intellectual and social context of computers. Although the majority of the chapters in this edition are new, the original criteria for selecting essays has been retained. The text retains the historical pieces and adds new material on artifical intelligence, the human-computer interface, the intellectual importance of computing, and the social imapct of computer technology.
Author: Steven Levy
Author: Zenon W. Pylyshyn
Author: Aaron Sloman
Author: John M. Dunn
Author: Edmund Callis Berkeley
Author: Benjamin B. Wells
Author: Edmund C. Berkeley
Author: David A. Grier
Author: Theodor H. Nelson
Author: Zenon W. Pylyshyn