Isbn: 9781591020349 - who invented the computer?: the legal battle that changed computing history (11 risultati)

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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. 1st printing. Prior owner's typed inventory label on front flyleaf, otherwise a tight, clean copy. 463pp. Introduction by Douglas Hofstadter. In a very nice jacket. Size: 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: fine. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. First printing. Hardcover. 463 pp. with bibliography, index. In 1973, Federal District Judge Earl R. Larson issued a ruling in a patent case that was to have profound and long-lasting implications for the then-dawning computer revolution. Against expectations, the judge ruled against Sperry Rand Corp, which claimed to hold the patent for the first computer---dubbed ENIAC--- and was demanding huge royalties on all electronic data-processing sales by Honeywell and other large competitors. The judge found that in fact ENIAC was not the first computer but was derived from an obscure computer---called the ABC--which had developed in the late thirties by a largely unknown Iowa State University professor. This work cenetrs in detail on this crucial trial.…

8vo. 463pp., notes, biblio, index. Introduction by Douglas Hofstadter. In 1973, Federal District Judge Earl R. Larson issued a ruling in a patent case that was to have profound and long-lasting implications for the dawning computer revolution. Against all expectations, the judge ruled against Sperry Rand Corporation, thus opening the field for the innovations that made the digital age what it is today. But this is about more than a court case. From the foreword: "Typically, in the case of a revolutionary innovation that comes to pervade society, most of us have a knee-jerk reaction to the question 'Who invented it?' This book is about the hidden social pressures to create a 'mythic hero' figure for the discovery of the computer. The cast of characters in this story is filled with vivid and very real personalities. Some are oddballs, and some are squares; some are honest, some are dishonest, and some are opportunists floating halfway in between. It is a genuine drama, written with flair and a supreme attempt at objectivity." Boards in dust jacket. Light shelfwear. Very good.…

Condizione: Sehr gut. 415 pp. Fresh and clean copy in good condition. - Contents: A. Nothing but the Truth - Mauchly on the Stand - Mauchly in Deposition - Atanasoff as Witness - Mauchly before Atanasoff - Larson from the Bench - Who invented the computer? - B. The Court of Public Opinion - Breaking into Print - Other Voices - Lines in the Sand - The Matter of von Neumann - A Happy Convergence - The Public Eye - C. Closing Argument - As It Happened - Wrap-Up - Chronology of Key Events - References by Chapter ISBN 9781591020349 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 810 Hardcover with original dustjacket.…

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