Origins and Foundations of Computing - In Cooperation with Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum (Hardcover, 2010 ed.)

The Heinz Nixdorf Museum Forum (HNF) is the world's largest c- puter museum and is dedicated to portraying the past, present and future of information technology. In the "Year of Informatics 2006" the HNF was particularly keen to examine the history of this still quite young discipline. The short-lived nature of information technologies means that individuals, inventions, devices, institutes and companies"age" more rapidly than in many other specialties. And in the nature of things the group of computer pioneers from the early days is growing smaller all the time. To supplement a planned new exhibit on "Software and Inform- ics" at the HNF, the idea arose of recording the history of informatics in an accompanying publication. Mysearchforsuitablesourcesandauthorsveryquickly cameupwith the right answer, the very rst name in Germany: Friedrich L. Bauer, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the TU in Munich, one of the - thers of informatics in Germany and for decades the indefatigable author of the"Historical Notes" column of the journal Informatik Spektrum. Friedrich L. Bauer was already the author of two works on the history of informatics, published in different decades and in different books. Both of them are notable for their knowledgeable, extremely comp- hensive and yet compact style. My obvious course was to motivate this author to amalgamate, supplement and illustrate his previous work.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag
Country of origin:	Germany
Release date:	November 2009
First published:	2010
Contributors:	Heinz Nixdorf Museums Forum
Authors:	Friedrich L. Bauer
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 9mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	142
Edition:	2010 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-3-642-02991-2
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Popular science Books > Computing & IT > Computer hardware & operating systems > General Books > Computing & IT > Computer programming > General Books > Professional & Technical > Electronics & communications engineering > Electronics engineering > General Books > History > General Promotions
LSN:	3-642-02991-4
Barcode:	9783642029912

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