A New History of Modern Computing - Thomas Haigh Paul E Ceruzzi Kartoniert (TB)

How the computer became universal.Over the past fifty years the computer has been transformed from a hulking scientific supertool and data processing workhorse remote from the experiences of ordinary people to a diverse family of devices that billions rely on to play games shop stream music and movies communicate and count their steps. In A New History of Modern Computing Thomas Haigh and Paul Ceruzzi trace these changes. A comprehensive reimagining of Ceruzzi's A History of Modern Computing this new volume uses each chapter to recount one such transformation describing how a particu lar community of users and producers remade the computer into something new.Haigh and Ceruzzi ground their accounts of these computing revolutions in the longer and deeper history of computing technology. They begin with the story of the 1945 ENIAC computer which introduced the vocabulary of programs and programming and proceed through email pocket calculators personal computers the World Wide Web videogames smart phones and our current world of computers everywhere--in phones cars appliances watches and more. Finally they consider the Tesla Model S as an object that simultaneously embodies many strands of computing.