A Brief History of Computing

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: O’Regan, Gerard (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London, 2008.
• Subjects: Computer science.; History.; Computers.; Popular works.; Computer Science.; Theory of Computation.; History of Computing.; History of Science.; Popular Science, general.

The history of computing has its origins at the outset of civilization. As towns and communities evolved there was a need for increasingly sophisticated calculations. This book traces the evolution of computation, from early civilisations 3000 B.C. to the latest key developments in modern times. Thi...

Table of Contents:

• From the contents. Early Civilisations
• The Babylonians
• The Egyptians
• The Greeks
• The Romans
• Foundations
• Boole
• Babbage
• Formalism
• Turing
• Shannon
• Von Neumann
• Hermann Zuse
• Computer Programming Languages
• Object-oriented Languages
• Functional Programming Languages
• Logic Programming Languages
• Syntax and Semantics
• Software Engineering
• What is Software Engineering?- Early Software Engineering
• Software Engineering Mathematics
• Formal Methods
• Software Inspections and Testing
• Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems
• Descartes
• Philosophy and AI
• Cognitive Psychology
• Linguistics
• Cybernetics
• Logic and AI
• Computability, Incompleteness and Decidability
• Robots
• Neural Networks
• Expert Systems
• The Internet Revolution
• The ARPANET
• TCP/IP
• Birth of the Internet
• Birth of the World-Wide-Web
• Dot Com Companies
• E-Software Development
• E-Commerce Security
• Famous Technology Companies
• Microsoft
• Motorola
• Apple Computers
• Oracle
• Siemens
• HP.