"A History of Modern Computing" (Repost)
"A History of Modern Computing"
Publisher: The MIT Press | 2003 | 459 pages | ISBN: 0262532034 | PDF | 5,1 MB
Publisher: The MIT Press | 2003 | 459 pages | ISBN: 0262532034 | PDF | 5,1 MB
Computers were invented to ‘‘compute’’: to solve ‘‘complex mathematical problems,’’ as the dictionary still defines that word.1 They still do that, but that is not why we are living in an ‘‘Information Age.’’ That reflects other things that computers do: store and retrieve data, manage networks of communications, process text, generate and manipulate images and sounds, fly air and space craft, and so on. Deep inside a computer are circuits that do those things by transforming them into a mathematical language.