How productivity culture and technology became emblematic of the American economic system in pre- and postwar Germany. The concept of productivity originated in a statistical measure of output per w
A history of one of the most influential American companies of the last century.For decades, IBM shaped the way the world did business. IBM products were in every large organization, and IBM corporate
How Britain lost its early dominance in computing by systematically discriminating against its most qualified workers: women.In 1944, Britain led the world in electronic computing. By 1974, the Britis
The history of the first programmable electronic computer, from its conception, construction, and use to its afterlife as a part of computing folklore.Conceived in 1943, completed in 1945, and decommi
The computer services industry has worldwide annual revenues of nearly a trillion dollars and employs millions of workers, but is often overshadowed by the hardware and software products industries. I
Today, women earn a relatively low percentage of computer science degrees and hold proportionately few technical computing jobs. Meanwhile, the stereotype of the male "computer geek" seems to be every
In the 1980s, there was a revolution with far-reaching consequences -- a revolution to restore software freedom. In the early 1980s, after decades of making source code available with programs, most p
In 1944, Britain led the world in electronic computing. By 1974, the British computer industry was all but extinct. What happened in the intervening thirty years holds lessons for all postindustrial s
In The Government Machine, Jon Agar traces the mechanization of government work in the United Kingdom from the nineteenth to the early twenty-first century. He argues tha
Conceived in 1943, completed in 1945, and decommissioned in 1955, ENIAC (the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) was the first general-purpose programmable electronic computer. But ENIAC was
The rise of the Indian information technology industry is a remarkable economic success story. Software and services exports from India amounted to less than $100 million in 1990, and today come close
Today, women earn a relatively low percentage of computer science degrees and holdproportionately few technical computing jobs. Meanwhile, the stereotype of the male "computergeek" seems to be everywh
This is a book about the computer revolution of the mid-twentieth century and thepeople who made it possible. Unlike most histories of computing, it is not a book about machines,inventors, or entrepre
"This book provides the most holistic approach to the history of the development of programming and computer systems so far written. By embedding this history in a sociological and political context,
No company of the twentieth century achieved greater success and engendered moreadmiration, respect, envy, fear, and hatred than IBM. Building IBM tells the story of that company-- how it was formed,
The effect of a commercialized Internet on American business, from the boom ine-commerce and adjustments by bricks-and-mortar businesses to file-sharing and communitybuilding.
Between 1946 and 1957 computing went from a preliminary, developmental stage to morewidespread use accompanied by the beginnings of the digital computer industry. During this crucialdecade, spurred by
This engaging history 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 t
Chronicles the software history's rise from its beginnings in the 1950s to America's fourth largest industrial sector, describing the different kinds of software, products, and markets that developed
After World War II, other major industrialized nations responded to the technological and industrial hegemony of the United States by developing their own design and manufacturing competence in digita
John von Neumann (1903-1957) was unquestionably one of the most brilliant scientistsof the twentieth century. He made major contributions to quantum mechanics and mathematical physicsand in 1943 began
Uses excerpts from letters, memoirs, and documents to recreate the life of Ada Byron, daughter of the English poet, and discusses her contributions to mathematics and her friendships with the leading
This is the story of an extraordinary effort by the U.S. Department of Defense to hasten the advent of "machines that think." From 1983 to 1993, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
How data gathered from national conscriptions in pre–World War I Europe influenced understandings of population fitness and redefined society as a collective body.In pre–World War I Europe, individual
In The Genealogy of a Gene, Myles Jackson uses the story of the CCR5 gene to investigate the interrelationships among science, technology, and society. Mapping the varied "genealogy" of CCR5 -- intel
At the end of the nineteenth century, acoustics was a science of musical sounds; the musically trained ear was the ultimate reference. Just a few decades into the twentie
In the 1950s and the 1960s, U.S. administrations were determined to prevent Western European countries from developing independent national nuclear weapons programs. To d
This book examines the wide range of scientific and social arenas in which the concept of inheritance gained relevance in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centurie
During World War II, the Allied military forces faced severe problems integrating equipment, tactics, and logistics into successful combat operations. To help confront these problems, scientists and e
In The Genealogy of a Gene, Myles Jackson uses the story of the CCR5 gene to investigate the interrelationships among science, technology, and society. Mapping the varied "genealogy"
The Cold War period saw a dramatic expansion of state-funded science and technologyresearch. Government and military patronage shaped Cold War technoscientific practices, imposingmethods that were pro
The Cold War period saw a dramatic expansion of state-funded science and technologyresearch. Government and military patronage shaped Cold War technoscientific practices, imposingmethods that were pro
In this book, Lino Camprubi argues that science and technology were at the verycenter of the building of Franco's Spain. Previous histories of early Francoist science andtechnology have described scie
Emil du Bois-Reymond is the most important forgotten intellectual of the nineteenthcentury. In his own time (1818--1896) du Bois-Reymond grew famous in his native Germany and beyondfor his groundbreak
In the middle of the nineteenth century, German and Austrian concertgoers began tohear new rhythms and harmonies as non-Western musical ensembles began to make their way to Europeancities and classica
In Progressive Enlightenment, Leslie Tomory examines the originsof the gaslight industry, from invention to consolidation as a large integrated urban network.Tomory argues that gas was the first integ
For much of the first half of the twentieth century, meteorology was more art thanscience, dependent on an individual forecaster's lifetime of local experience. In Weatherby the Numbers, Kristine Harp
Quantum chemistry--a discipline that is not quite physics, not quite chemistry, andnot quite applied mathematics--emerged as a field of study in the 1920s. It was referred to by suchterms as mathemati
