Transforming Computer Technology: Information Processing for the Pentagon, 1962-1986 - Brossura

Norberg, Arthur L. L.

 
9780801863691: Transforming Computer Technology: Information Processing for the Pentagon, 1962-1986
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ISBN 10: 0801863694 ISBN 13: 9780801863691
Casa editrice: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000

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Winner of the Association of American Publishers Professional and Scholarly Publishing Award for Computer Science

Over the course of several decades, the Pentagon's Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO) helped transform computing from a cumbersome enterprise based on batch processing to the instantly interactive, graphically rich, highly intelligent computing of today. With the purpose of improving command and control systems for the military, IPTO researchers strengthened time-sharing, laid the groundwork for graphics and parallel processing, contributed to the study of artificial intelligence, and developed the wide-area network that came to be known as the Internet. Transforming Computer Technology examines these and other developments at the Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency in its heyday between 1962 and 1986. The authors show how Pentagon programs affected significant developments in both computer science and engineering. They analyze the management of the office, the origins and growth of important IPTO programs, and the interaction of the staff with the R & D community. They pay special attention to IPTO's role in executing research at the leading edge of computing and networking and in working with the military to transfer that research into practical use. And they show how, by the 1990s, the research results had been assimilated into systems both for the military and for civilian society.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Arthur L. Norberg and Judy E. O'Neill are the former director and associate director of the Charles Babbage Institute (CBI), Center for the History of Information Processing, University of Minnesota.

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Editore
Johns Hopkins University Press
Data di pubblicazione
2000
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0801863694
ISBN 13 
9780801863691
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
380
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
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9780801851520: Transforming Computer Technology: Information Processing for the Pentagon, 1962-1986

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  0801851521 ISBN 13:  9780801851520
Casa editrice: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, 1996
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