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In the 1970s, while their contemporaries were protesting the
computer as a tool of dehumanization and oppression, a motley
collection of college dropouts, hippies, and electronics fanatics
were engaged in something much more subversive. Obsessed with the
idea of getting computer power into their own hands, they launched
from their garages a hobbyist movement that grew into an industry,
and ultimately a social and technological revolution. What they did
was invent the personal computer: not just a new device, but a
watershed in the relationship between man and machine. This is
their story. Fire in the Valley is the definitive history of the
personal computer, drawn from interviews with the people who made
it happen, written by two veteran computer writers who were there
from the start. Working at InfoWorld in the early 1980s, Swaine and
Freiberger daily rubbed elbows with people like Steve Jobs and Bill
Gates when they were creating the personal computer revolution. A
rich story of colorful individuals, Fire in the Valley profiles
these unlikely revolutionaries and entrepreneurs, such as Ed
Roberts of MITS, Lee Felsenstein at Processor Technology, and Jack
Tramiel of Commodore, as well as Jobs and Gates in all the
innocence of their formative years. This completely revised and
expanded third edition brings the story to its completion,
chronicling the end of the personal computer revolution and the
beginning of the post-PC era. It covers the departure from the
stage of major players with the deaths of Steve Jobs and Douglas
Engelbart and the retirements of Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer; the
shift away from the PC to the cloud and portable devices; and what
the end of the PC era means for issues such as personal freedom and
power, and open source vs. proprietary software.
Explore functional programming and discover new ways of thinking
about code. You know you need to master functional programming, but
learning one functional language is only the start. In this book,
through articles drawn from PragPub magazine and articles written
specifically for this book, you'll explore functional thinking and
functional style and idioms across languages. Led by expert guides,
you'll discover the distinct strengths and approaches of Clojure,
Elixir, Haskell, Scala, and Swift and learn which best suits your
needs. Contributing authors: Rich Hickey, Stuart Halloway, Aaron
Bedra, Michael Bevilacqua-Linn, Venkat Subramaniam, Paul Callaghan,
Jose Valim, Dave Thomas, Natasha Murashev, Tony Hillerson, Josh
Chisholm, and Bruce Tate. Functional programming is on the rise
because it lets you write simpler, cleaner code, and its emphasis
on immutability makes it ideal for maximizing the benefits of
multiple cores and distributed solutions. So far nobody's invented
the perfect functional language - each has its unique strengths. In
Functional Programming: A PragPub Anthology, you'll investigate the
philosophies, tools, and idioms of five different functional
programming languages. See how Swift, the development language for
iOS, encourages you to build highly scalable apps using functional
techniques like map and reduce. Discover how Scala allows you to
transition gently but deeply into functional programming without
losing the benefits of the JVM, while with Lisp-based Clojure, you
can plunge fully into the functional style. Learn about advanced
functional concepts in Haskell, a pure functional language making
powerful use of the type system with type inference and type
classes. And see how functional programming is becoming more
elegant and friendly with Elixir, a new functional language built
on the powerful Erlang base.The industry has been embracing
functional programming more and more, driven by the need for
concurrency and parallelism. This collection of articles will lead
you to mastering the functional approach to problem solving. So put
on your explorer's hat and prepare to be surprised. The goal of
exploration is always discovery.What You Need: Familiarity with one
or more programming languages.
Few issues are as important to U.S. national security analysts as
China's military modernization, a process that has benefited
directly from the past two decades of dramatic economic expansion.
This book addresses the Chinese navy-the People's Liberation Army
Navy, or PLAN-the service that has most dramatically benefited from
increased defense funding.
Spurred by a perceived growing ballistic missile threat from within
the Asia-Pacific region and requests from the United States to
support research and development on components of a missile defense
system, the Japanese government decided in late 1998 and early 1999
to move forward with joint research and development with the United
States on ballistic missile defense (BMD). This book explores both
the benefits and potential problems of deploying a BMD system in
Japan. It examines the main policies and actions undertaken thus
far by Japan in the area of BMD, discusses several future
milestones and likely next steps, and identifies the major Japanese
individuals and organizations influencing future decisions on BMD.
It also assesses how such issues as alliance maintenance, cost,
feasibility, commercial incentives, and Chinese behavior are
addressed by key Japanese players. It finds that, to date, Japan
has undertaken no effort to develop or acquire a dedicated BMD
system nor has it assessed in any thorough or systematic manner the
larger political and strategic implications of a BMD system. More
importantly, no consensus has yet emerged in favor of the
development or deployment of a full-fledged BMD system in Japan.
The book concludes that Japan could gradually acquire many of the
elements of a BMD system while avoiding an explicit, formal
deployment decision. The development or deployment of a complete
BMD system with the United States, however, will likely pose many
challenges to the U.S.-Japan alliance.
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