[Air-L] History of Computers

[Joly MacFie]

I am just reading Tom Wheeler's From Gutenberg to Google
<https://books.google.com/books/about/From_Gutenberg_to_Google.html?id=rd57F8IjyF0C&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button#v=onepage&q&f=false>.
While a history of networks and their impact, rather than computing, it
does cover many aspects, and is extremely well written.

Might work as "more reading".

joly

On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 8:32 PM Xanat Meza via Air-L <
air-l at listserv.aoir.org> wrote:

> Hello,
> this one has a sociological perspective on the history of computers:
> Agar, J. (2003), The government machine: A revolutionary history of the
> computer, MIT press
> Xanat V. Meza
>
> Ph.D. candidate - Kansei, Behavioral and Brain SciencesUniversity of
> Tsukuba
> M.A. Media and Communication
> Yeungnam University
> B.D. Graphic Communication Design
> Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana
>
>
>     El sábado, 23 de marzo de 2019 4:36:53 a. m. GMT+9, Shulman, Stu <
> stu at texifter.com> escribió:
>
>  The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood
> <
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Information:_A_History,_a_Theory,_a_Flood
> >
> James Gleick
>
> For sure, the most important book/audiobook I have ever read (about 6
> times).
>
> ~Stu
>
> On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 3:32 PM Meg Leta Jones <Meg.Jones at georgetown.edu>
> wrote:
>
> > Try Computer: A History of the Information Machine by Martin
> Campbell-Kelly
> > and William Aspray
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 22, 2019, 3:17 PM Peter Timusk <peterotimusk at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Yes, there is a good 1980s book from MIT Press that I like for this.
> > >
> > >  the Computer Comes of Age
> > > The People, the Hardware, and the Software
> > >
> > > By René Moreau
> > >
> > > Translated by J. Howlett
> > >
> > >
> > > https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/computer-comes-age
> > >
> > >
> > > On Fri, Mar 22, 2019, 15:11 Adriana de Souza e Silva, <
> aasilva at ncsu.edu>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > I’m looking for a text (book, article, a few chapters) that tells the
> > > > history of computers, starting from Charles Babbage and Ada
> Lovelace’s
> > > > Analytical Engine to present days. This is for a 200-level
> > undergraduate
> > > > class, so I’m trying to summarize the topic as much as possible, to
> > give
> > > > students a general overview in a couple of classes.
> > > >
> > > > Any suggestions?
> > > > _________________________
> > > > Adriana de Souza e Silva
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> > > > Department of Communication
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