1 option
Histories of computing / Michael Sean Mahoney ; edited and with an introduction by Thomas Haigh.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mahoney, Michael S. (Michael Sean)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Computer science--History.
- Computer science.
- Software engineering--History.
- Software engineering.
- Computers--History.
- Computers.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 250 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011.
- Summary:
- Thirteen of Mahoney's essays and papers covering historiography, software engineering, and theoretical computer science.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674055681
- 0674055683
- OCLC:
- 676725415
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.