A Brief History of Computing

• Main Author: O'Regan, Gerard (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London, 2012.
• Edition: 2nd ed. 2012.
• Subjects: Computer science.; History.; Computers.; Popular works.; Computer Science.; History of Computing.; Popular Science, general.; History of Science.

The history of computing has its origins at the outset of civilization, and the need for increasingly sophisticated calculations has grown as towns and communities evolved. This lively and fascinating text traces the key developments in computation – from 3000 B.C. to the present day – in an easy-to...

Table of Contents:

• Computing in Early Civilisations
• What is a Computer?- Early Computers
• Developments in the 1950s to 1970s
• Revolutions in the 1980s and 1990s
• IBM
• Technology Companies
• The Internet Revolution
• History of Programming Languages
• History of Software Engineering
• People in Computing
• Foundations (Boole and Babbage)
• Claude Shannon
• Alan Turing
• Artificial Intelligence.