Beyond Calculation: The Next Fifty Years of Computing

Denning, Peter J.; Metcalfe, Robert M.

ISBN 10: 0387949321 / ISBN 13: 9780387949321

Editore: New York, NY, Copernicus Books / Springer Verlag, 1997, 1997

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• Titolo: Beyond Calculation: The Next Fifty Years of Computing
• Editore: New York, NY, Copernicus Books / Springer Verlag, 1997
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0387949321
• ISBN 13: 9780387949321
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Edizione: First Edition.
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: Dust Jacket Included

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Riassunto

In March 1997, the Association for Computing Machinery celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the electronic computer. Computers are everywhere: in our cars, our homes, our supermarkets, at the office, and at the local hospital. But as the contributors to this volume make clear, the scientific, social and economic impact of computers is only now beginning to be felt. These sixteen invited essays on the future of computing take on a dazzling variety of topics, with opinions from such experts as Gordon Bell, Sherry Turkle, Edsger W. Dijkstra, Paul Abraham, Donald Norman, Franz Alt, and David Gelernter. This brilliantly eclectic collection will fascinate everybody with an interest in computers and where they are leading us.

L'autore

Robert Metcalfe is the inventor of the Ethernet technology and founder of the 3Com corporation. He is currently vice-president, technology at IDG and executive correspondent for Infoworld, where he writes a column that reaches over 500,000 readers worldwide. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Harvard. Peter J. Denning is associate dean for computing and chair of the Computer Science Department in the School of Information Technology and Engineering at George Mason University. He was formerly the founding director of the Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science at the NASA Ames Research Center, and the president of the Association for Computing Machinery 1980-82.