Smarter than their machines: oral histories of pioneers in interactive computing

"The oral histories of the pioneers of interactive computing have much to offer today's leaders in business, industry, and academia on how to get complex things done. After all, industry, government, and academia working together created the computer industry, which led to the Internet as...

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1. Verfasser: Cullinane, John (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: [New York] Association for Computing Machinery [2015]
[San Rafael, California] M&C
Ausgabe:First edition
Schriftenreihe:ACM books #4
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Zusammenfassung:"The oral histories of the pioneers of interactive computing have much to offer today's leaders in business, industry, and academia on how to get complex things done. After all, industry, government, and academia working together created the computer industry, which led to the Internet as we know it today. To do so, the pioneers had to get around the various "systems" of the day that are always impediments to implementing new ideas. In their case, it was the voice dominated communications industry. For example, packet switching was invented to get around it. This was key to allowing incompatible computers to "talk" to each other across academia, and later industry, which would be the key to the Internet. Cullinane Corporation, the computer industry's first successfil software products company, benefitted from this technology as it focused on database software as the foundation for interactive computer systems for industry, government, and academia. As such, this book is a personal walk through the history that led to interactive computing as John Cullinane witnessed it and participated in it. He has the help of the oral histories of some key pioneers, and others. Also, he organized and introduces it in a way that illustrates the close interaction of the various individuals and organizations involved in te evolution of interactive computing. These oral histories, including John's, were drawn from the archives of over 300 such histories located at the Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota"... Back cover
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 204 Seiten) illustrations
ISBN:9781627055512
DOI:10.1145/2663015

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