Authors: Richard F. Bellaver.
Paperback, 396 pages
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Publication Date: 2006-09-15


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    I teach a graduate course called the History and Culture of the Information and Communications Industry. This book is a result of that course. It shows how the world has moved from primitive means of communication to the integrated multi-media situation we are in today. Its concentration is on the fields of journalism, telecommunications, broadcasting, and computing. Emphasis is placed on the leaders of the areas of interest and the political and cultural surroundings that encouraged or discouraged growth of the industry. One of the leaders mentioned is that lucky fellow Johann Gutenberg. Gutenberg certainly built a press that used movable type, but he became famous because of an early confluence of technology. At the time of his work good cheap paper became available from Italy, and longer lasting inks were developed in India. The technology of printing took off because quality and economy came together. We also are lucky that we know so much about Gutenberg because the Germans had such a good legal record keeping system in the sixteenth century and Mr. G. had so many run-ins with the law. Four hundred years later the confluence of satellite broadcasting and color printing techniques enabled another printing leader, Allen Neuharth, to produce a national newspaper called USA Today. This book mentions several lucky incidents or "what ifs" in the computer industry. For example, where would Microsoft be if Gary Kildall of Digital Research Corp. hadn't taken off to fly his airplane when the IBMers came to invite him to build the operating system for their new PC? Or before that, what if Charles Ramlett Flint had reconsidered hiring a convicted felon to run the Computing-Tabulating Recording Company when he brought on Thomas Watson Sr. who turned it into IBM? Or before that, what if Charles Babbage had and the money and the machinery to do the fine grinding work on the Analytical Engine. Politics, especially represented by the US Government, have...

Authors: Louise Proddow.
Paperback, 229 pages
Publisher: Hodder Headline
Publication Date: 2000-06-01


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Authors: Knud Holmboe.
Paperback, 281 pages
Publisher: G P Putnam's Sons
Publication Date: 1994-12
Edition: 2nd

Authors: Julia L. Wilkinson.
Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: 1st Books Library
Publication Date: 2001-04-01


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    We see stories everywhere these days about the “instant millionaires” the Internet industry created. But nowhere is there a first-person true-life account of what it was like to be an employee of the company at the epicenter of the world of interactive communications from the very early days.

Through the eyes of an industry insider, who programmed AOL’s hugely popular “People Connection” chat area, the reader learns how the lives of many people changed dramatically in a few short years.

As we follow the author’s “I was there” account of being hired at Quantum Computer Services (which became AOL) in 1988, and navigating this strange new world, the reader gets the “true inside story” of AOL’s eccentric founding father, Bill von Meister, and how Steve Case was really hired. Through interviews with numerous AOL employees, industry pundits, and users themselves, we explore the world of online community and how it has affected people’s lives.

My Life at AOL strives to give a balanced account of the world online. Although the book touches on some of the most egregious online cases of cyber crime and intrigue, it sheds light on the many benefits of this new medium as well. The reader will come away with a sense of the history and impact of the Internet revolution as seen from a personal perspective. (And hopefully chuckle at a few crazy anecdotes)....

Authors: Souleiman Valiev.
Paperback, 700 pages
Publisher: Authorhouse
Publication Date: 2003-09

Authors: Benjamin Woolley.
Hardcover, 416 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Publication Date: 2000-12-01
Edition: 1st

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    Known in her own day as an enchantress of numbers, Ada Byron, Lady Lovelace, daughter of the poet Lord Byron, was one of the most fascinating women of the 19th century. In collaboration with Charles Babbage, inventor of the mechanical thinking machine that anticipated by more than a century the invention of the computer, Ada devised a method of using punchcards to calculate Bernoulli numbers, and thus became the mother of computer programming. It was in her honor that, in 1980, the U.S. Department of Defense named its computer language Ada.

In this critically acclaimed biography, author Benjamin Woolley portrays Ada Byron's life as the embodiment of the schism between the worlds of Romanticism and scientific rationalism. He describes how Ada's efforts to bridge these opposites with a poetical science was the driving force behind one of the most remarkable careers of the Victorian Age. A brilliant chronicle of an extraordinary life in math and science and an enthralling rumination on the death of Romanticism and the birth of the Machine Age, The Bride of Science offers thought-provoking insights into the seemingly irreconcilable opposition between art and science that continues to haunt us today....

Authors: Leslie S. Hiraoka.
Hardcover, 240 pages
Publisher: Quorum Books
Publication Date: 2000-10-30


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    The globalization of the motor vehicle industry--specifically, cars and light trucks--has engendered new forms of competition and cooperation with less regard for national boundaries than ever before. The DaimlerChrysler merger, the GM-Toyota joint venture, the Renault equity stake in Nissan, the Ford takeover of Mazda, Jaguar, and Volvo cars, and direct foreign investments in Mexico, Mercosur (Mercado Comun del Sur), China, and India--developments like these are almost impossible to keep up with. Hiraoka, a prize-winning analyst of manufacturing excellence in the automotive industry, surveys them and their causes and presents a clarifying picture with thoroughness and depth. Hiraoka's explanation of the various factors contributing to globalization of the motor vehicle industry provides the background information necessary to gain perspective on recent events. These developments include e-commerce networks, alliances with local and far-flung parts suppliers, low-cost mass production and distribution systems, the launching of hybrid products in mature economies, and the buildup of capacity in emerging markets. His analysis ranges widely, delving into managerial reactions to regional free-trade blocks, currency crises, government shifts away from central planning and trade protectionism, the vicissitudes of business cycles in emerging markets, and the juxtaposition of Japan's prolonged recession and the booming American motor vehicle market. Corporate decision-makers, labor leaders, policy analysts, researchers, students, and industry observers will benefit from understanding the global characteristics of today's motor vehicle industry....

Authors: Paula K. Byers.
Hardcover, pages
Publisher: Gale Group
Publication Date: 1998-11
Edition: Cdr

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    Presents brief biographical sketches which provide vital statistics as well as information on the importance of the person listed....

Authors:
Kindle Edition, 143 pages
Publisher: Springer
Publication Date: 1998-12-11
Edition: 1

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    Fünf Informatikpioniere aus Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz, die die Entwicklung ihres Fachs durch Impulse und Kritik entscheidend geprägt haben, erzählen ihr Leben vor dem Hintergrund der entstehenden Informatik. Der frühe Bau elektronischer Rechenanlagen wird dabei ebenso angesprochen wie das Entstehen von Programmiersprachen oder die Etablierung der Disziplin. In den Gesprächen geht es weniger darum, außergewöhnliche Ereignisse oder Biographien herauszustellen, als vielmehr die Informatik in die Zeitgeschichte und die Lebensumstände des einzelnen einzubetten. Es zeigt sich, daß bei aller Zufälligkeit der Situationen und Bedingtheit der Entscheidungen persönliche Orientierung und Initiative sowie soziale und fachliche Kompetenz ausschlaggebend für den einschneidenden Fortschritt waren. Fachleute und Laien, Nutzer und Kritiker des Computers werden bei der aufschlußreichen und zugleich unterhaltsamen Lektüre Anregungen zum Überdenken eigener und gängiger Positionen finden....

Authors: JOEL SELDIN.
Hardcover, 121 pages
Publisher: COWARD-MCCANN,INC NY
Publication Date: 1965


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    ASTRODEALS, BOOK, AUTOMATION, THE CHALLENGE OF MEN AND MACHINES, CHALLENGE BOOKS, EYE WITNESS REPORTS, 1965 EDITION, Title: AUTOMATION, THE CHALLENGE OF MEN AND MACHINES, CHALLENGE BOOKS, EYE WITNESS REPORTS, 1965 EDITION, Binding: Hardcover Publication date: 1965...