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It has been upon the shoulders of giants that the modern world has been forged.  This accessible compendium presents an insight into the great minds responsible for the technology which has transformed our lives. Each pioneer is introduced with a brief biography, followed by a concise account of their key contributions to their discipline. The selection covers a broad spread of historical and contemporary figures from theoreticians to entrepreneurs, highlighting the richness of the field of computing.  Topics and features: describes the lives and machines built by Hermann Hollerith, Vannevar Bush, Howard Aiken, John Atanasoff, Tommy Flowers, John Mauchly, and Konrad Zuse; examines the contributions made by Claude Shannon, John Von Neumann, Alan Turing, and Sir Frederick Williams; reviews such pioneers of commercial computing as John Backus, Fred Brooks, Gordon Moore, William Shockley, Vint Cerf, Don Estridge, Gary Kildall, and Tim Berners-Lee; surveys pivotal software engineers, including Robert Floyd, C.A.R Hoare, Dines Bjorner, Edger Dijkstra, Tom DeMarco, Michael Fagan, Watt Humphries, Ivor Jacobson, David Parnas, and Ed Yourdan; discusses important characters in theoretical com

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Author

O’Regan, Gerard

Publisher

Springer London, Limited

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781447162261

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Computer Science, Science, Mathematics