Histories of computing / by Michael Sean Mahoney ; edited and with an introduction by Thomas Haigh.
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TextPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011Description: 250 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN: 9780674055681 (alk. paper); 0674055683 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Computer science -- History | Software engineering -- History | Computers -- HistoryDDC classification: 004 LOC classification: QA76.17 | .M34 2011| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Unexpected connections, powerful precedents, and big questions: the work of Michael Sean Mahoney on the history of computing / Thomas Haigh -- Shaping the history of computers. -- The history of computing in the history of technology -- What makes history? -- Issues in the history of computing -- The histories of computing(s) -- Constructing a history for software. -- Software: the self-programming machine -- Extracts from The roots of software engineering -- Finding a history for software engineering -- Boys' toys and women's work: feminism engages software -- The structures of computation. -- Computing and mathematics at Princeton in the 1950s -- Computer science: the search for a mathematical theory -- Extracts from Computers and mathematics: the search for a discipline of computer science -- The structures of computation and the mathematical structure of nature -- Extracts from Software as science, science as software -- Éloge: Michael Sean Mahoney, 1939-2008 / Jed Z. Buchwald and D. Graham Burnett.
Thirteen of Mahoney's essays and papers covering historiography, software engineering, and theoretical computer science.
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