A New History of Modern Computing by Thomas Haigh

A New History of Modern Computing by Thomas Haigh

How the computer became universal.

Over the past fifty years, the computer has been transformed from a hulking scientific supertool and data processing workhorse, remote from the experiences of ordinary people, to a diverse family of devices that billions rely on to play games, shop, stream music and movies, communicate, and count their steps. In A New History of Modern Computing, Thomas Haigh and Paul Ceruzzi trace these changes. A comprehensive reimagining of Ceruzzi's A History of Modern Computing, this new volume uses each chapter to recount one such transformation, describing how a particular community of users and producers remade the computer into something new.

Haigh and Ceruzzi ground their accounts of these computing revolutions in the longer and deeper history of computing technology. They begin with the story of the 1945 ENIAC computer, which introduced the vocabulary of "programs" and "programming," and proceed through email, pocket calculators, personal computers, the World Wide Web, videogames, smart phones, and our current world of computers everywhere--in phones, cars, appliances, watches, and more. Finally, they consider the Tesla Model S as an object that simultaneously embodies many strands of computing.

Paul E. Ceruzzi is a curator of the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum. He is the author of a number of publications, including Computing: A Brief History, A History of Modern Computing, and Internet Alley: High Technology in Tysons Corner, 1945-2005, all published by the MIT Press.

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ISBN 13	9780262542906
ISBN 10	0262542900
Title	A New History of Modern Computing
Author	Thomas Haigh
Series	History Of Computing
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	MIT Press Ltd
Year published	2021-09-14
Number of pages	536
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