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"Before Palm Pilots and iPods, PCs and laptops, the term "computer" referred to the people who did scientific calculations by hand. These workers were neither calculating geniuses nor idiot savants but knowledgeable people who, in other circumstances, might have become scientists in t...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "Before Palm Pilots and iPods, PCs and laptops, the term "computer" referred to the people who did scientific calculations by hand. These workers were neither calculating geniuses nor idiot savants but knowledgeable people who, in other circumstances, might have become scientists in their own right. When Computers Were Human represents the first in-depth account of this little-known, 200-year epoch in the history of science and technology." "Beginning with the story of his own grandmother, who was trained as a human computer, David Alan Grier provides an introduction to the wider world of women and men who did the hard computational labor of science." "When Computers Were Human is the sad but lyrical story of workers who gladly did the hard labor of research calculation in the hope that they might be part of the scientific community. In the end, they were rewarded by a new electronic machine that took the place and the name of those who were, once, the computers."--Jacket. |
| Beschreibung: | Originally published: 2005. |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (viii, 411 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-400) and index. |
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| title_full_unstemmed | When computers were human / David Alan Grier. |
| title_short | When computers were human / |
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| topic_facet | Calculators History. Science Mathematics History. Numerical calculations Methodology History. Calculatrices Histoire. Sciences Mathématiques Histoire. Calculs numériques Méthodologie Histoire. MATHEMATICS Essays. MATHEMATICS Pre-Calculus. MATHEMATICS Reference. COMPUTERS History. Calculators Science Mathematics History |
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