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A NEW HISTORY OF MODERN COMPUTING - THOMAS HAIG...

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 particular 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.

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