[Air-L] History of Computers

Corinne Cath corinnecath at gmail.com
Mon Mar 25 09:36:21 PDT 2019


These four:

Janet Abbate 2000 - https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/inventing-internet
Dave Clark 2019 - https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/designing-internet
Charlton McIlwain forthcoming - Black Software*: The Internet & Racial
Justice, From the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter*.
Mar Hicks 2017 - https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/programmed-inequality

On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 3:27 PM Cristina Lopez <clopez at umn.edu> wrote:

> Bob Johnstone, Never Mind the Laptops
> <https://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/bookdetail.aspx?bookid=SKU-000019395>
> is
> about laptop programs in schools, and he writes extensively about the
> history of computers and other "learning machines" in schools from the late
> 50s through the early 2000s.
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> *Cristina Lopez, Ph.D.*
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> On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 5:59 AM C.H. <chainsawtiney at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created
> > the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson (2015-10-06)
> >
> > Not a textbook but a good read.
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 8:11 PM 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
> > > University Faculty Scholar
> > > Professor
> > > Department of Communication
> > > http://www.souzaesilva.com
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Corinne Cath - Speth
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