This book covers modern computing from the development of the first electronic digital computer through the dot-com crash. The author concentrates on five key moments of transition: the transformation ...
On Oct. 3, 1950, three scientists at Bell Labs in New Jersey received a U.S. patent for what would become one of the most important inventions of the 20th century — the transistor. John Bardeen, ...
Computing before the computer / Michael Williams -- Information processing before the computer, 1865-1950 / James W. Cortada -- The new electronic technology / Brian Randell -- Calculating machines / ...
Dreaming In Code is an excellent read as well, for more recent computing history. If you're familiar with professional software dev, it reads as a "haha oh yeah I've been there"; if you're not, it ...
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