Exploring the Early Digital

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Haigh, Thomas (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: History of Computing,
• Subjects: Computers.; Technology-History.; Communication.; Humanities-Digital libraries.; History.; History of Computing.; History of Technology.; Media and Communication.; Digital Humanities.; History of Science.

Changes in the present challenge us to reinterpret the past, but historians have not yet come to grips with the convergence of computing, media, and communications technology. Today these things are inextricably intertwined, in technologies such as the smartphone and internet, in convergent industri...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Inventing an Analog Past and a Digital Future in Computing
• 3. Forgotten Machines: The Need for a New Master Narrative
• 4. Calvin Mooers, Zatocoding, and Early Research on Information Re-trieval
• 5. Switching the engineer's mind set to Boolean. Applying Shannon's algebra to control circuits and digital computing (1938-1958)
• 6. The ENIAC Display: Insignia of a Digital Praxeology
• 7. The Evolution of Digital Computing Practice on the Cambridge University EDSAC, 1949-1951
• 8. The Media of Programming
• 9. Foregrounding the Background: Business, Economics, Labor, and Government Policy as Shaping Forces in Early Digital Computing His-tory
• 10. "The Man with a Micro-calculator:" Digital Modernity and Late Soviet Computing Practices.