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Computer technology is pervasive in the modern world, its role
ever more important as it becomes embedded in a myriad of physical
systems and disciplinary ways of thinking. The late Michael Sean
Mahoney was a pioneer scholar of the history of computing, one of
the first established historians of science to take seriously the
challenges and opportunities posed by information technology to our
understanding of the twentieth century.
Mahoney s work ranged widely, from logic and the theory of
computation to the development of software and applications as
craft-work. But it was always informed by a unique perspective
derived from his distinguished work on the history of medieval
mathematics and experimental practice during the Scientific
Revolution. His writings offered a new angle on very recent events
and ideas and bridged the gaps between academic historians and
computer scientists. Indeed, he came to believe that the field was
irreducibly pluralistic and that there could be only "histories" of
computing.
In this collection, Thomas Haigh presents thirteen of Mahoney s
essays and papers organized across three categories:
historiography, software engineering, and theoretical computer
science. His introduction surveys Mahoney s work to trace the
development of key themes, illuminate connections among different
areas of his research, and put his contributions into context. The
volume also includes an essay on Mahoney by his former students Jed
Z. Buchwald and D. Graham Burnett. The result is a landmark work,
of interest to computer professionals as well as historians of
technology and science.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
When we think of the Internet, we generally think of Amazon,
Google, Hotmail, Napster, MySpace, and other sites for buying
products, searching for information, downloading entertainment,
chatting with friends, or posting photographs. In the academic
literature about the Internet, however, these uses are rarely
covered. The Internet and American Business fills this gap, picking
up where most scholarly histories of the Internet leave off--with
the commercialization of the Internet established and its effect on
traditional business a fact of life. These essays, describing
challenges successfully met by some companies and failures to adapt
by others, are a first attempt to understand a dynamic and exciting
period of American business history. Tracing the impact of the
commercialized Internet since 1995 on American business and
society, the book describes new business models, new companies and
adjustments by established companies, the rise of e-commerce, and
community building; it considers dot-com busts and difficulties
encountered by traditional industries; and it discusses such newly
created problems as copyright violations associated with music
file-sharing and the proliferation of Internet pornography.
ContributorsAtsushi Akera, William Aspray, Randal A. Beam, Martin
Campbell-Kelly, Paul E. Ceruzzi, James W. Cortada, Wolfgang Coy,
Blaise Cronin, Nathan Ensmenger, Daniel D. Garcia-Swartz, Brent
Goldfarb, Shane Greenstein, Thomas Haigh, Ward Hanson, David
Kirsch, Christine Ogan, Jeffrey R. Yost William Aspray is Rudy
Professor of Informatics at Indiana University in Bloomington. He
is the editor (with J. McGrath Cohoon) of Women and Information
Technology: Research on Underrepresentation (MIT Press, 2006 Paul
E. Ceruzzi is Curator of the National Air and Space Museum,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC. He is the author of A
History of Modern Computing (second edition, MIT Press, 2003) and
Internet Alley: High Technology in Tysons Corner, 1945-2005 (MIT
Press, 2008)
Changes in the present challenge us to reinterpret the past, but
historians have not yet come to grips with the convergence of
computing, media, and communications technology. Today these things
are inextricably intertwined, in technologies such as the
smartphone and internet, in convergent industries, and in social
practices. Yet they remain three distinct historical subfields,
tilled by different groups of scholars using different tools. We
often call this conglomeration "the digital," recognizing its deep
connection to the technology of digital computing. Unfortunately,
interdisciplinary studies of digital practices, digital methods, or
digital humanities have rarely been informed by deep engagement
with the history of computing.Contributors to this volume have come
together to reexamine an apparently familiar era in the history of
computing through new lenses, exploring early digital computing and
engineering practice as digital phenomena rather than as engines of
mathematics and logic. Most focus on the period 1945 to 1960, the
era in which the first electronic digital computers were created
and the computer industry began to develop. Because digitality is
first and foremost a way of reading objects and encoding
information within them, we are foregrounding topics that have
until now been viewed as peripheral in the history of computing:
betting odds calculators, card file systems, program and data
storage, programmable calculators, and digital circuit design
practices. Reconceptualizing the "history of computing" as study of
the "early digital" decenters the stored program computer,
repositioning it as one of many digital technologies.
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