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Edmund Berkeley and the Social Responsibility of Computer Professionals (Hardcover)
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Edmund Berkeley and the Social Responsibility of Computer Professionals (Hardcover)
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Edmund C. Berkeley (1909 - 1988) was a mathematician, insurance
actuary, inventor, publisher, and a founder of the Association for
Computing Machinery (ACM). His book Giant Brains or Machines That
Think (1949) was the first explanation of computers for a general
readership. His journal Computers and Automation (1951-1973) was
the first journal for computer professionals. In the 1950s,
Berkeley developed mail-order kits for small, personal computers
such as Simple Simon and the Braniac. In an era when computer
development was on a scale barely affordable by universities or
government agencies, Berkeley took a different approach and sold
simple computer kits to average Americans. He believed that digital
computers, using mechanized reasoning based on symbolic logic,
could help people make more rational decisions. The result of this
improved reasoning would be better social conditions and fewer
large-scale wars. Although Berkeley's populist notions of computer
development in the public interest did not prevail, the events of
his life exemplify the human side of ongoing debates concerning the
social responsibility of computer professionals. This biography of
Edmund Berkeley, based on primary sources gathered over 15 years of
archival research, provides a lens to understand social and
political decisions surrounding early computer development, and the
consequences of these decisions in our 21st century lives.
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