Smarter than their machines : oral histories of pioneers in interactive computing / John Cullinane.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cullinane, John, author.

Series:

ACM books ; #4.

ACM books ; #4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computer scientists--Interviews.

Computer scientists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 204 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

[New York] : Association for Computing Machinery ; [San Rafael, California] : Morgan & Claypool, 2015.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Contents:

1. Two entrepreneurs with the same idea : Herbert W. Robinson (CEIR), Sam Wyly (University Computing Company)

2. Two computer designers who thought big : Richard Bloch (Honeywell 800, 400, 200), Gene Amdahl (IBM System/360)

3. Timesharing in academia and ARPA : J.C.R. Licklider, Ivan Sutherland

4. Packet switching and ARPANET : Lawrence G. Roberts, Robert Kahn

Photographs

5. Artificial intelligence and changes at MIT and DARPA : Marvin L. Minsky, Michael Dertouzos

6. Creating something great in unusual places : Joseph F. Traub (Carnegie Mellon, Columbia University)

7. Creating the industry's first successful software products company : John Cullinane

8. Summary

Author's biography.

Notes:

Title from PDF title page (viewed on April 28, 2015).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781627055512

OCLC:

908155835

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.