Perspectives on the Computer RevolutionThis is a completely revised and updated edition of this text designed to introduce students to the historical, intellectual and social context of computers. Although the majority of the chapters in this edition are new, the original criteria for selecting essays has been retained. The text retains the historical pieces and adds new material on artifical intelligence, the human-computer interface, the intellectual importance of computing, and the social imapct of computer technology. |
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Excellent compilation of papers from the for-fathers of the computer sciences and more. I read the 1970 edition and I fully recommend it if you want to have revealing insight into this revolution,
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Very interesting, and insightful. Pieces together a lot of lose concepts that intertwine the computer revolution. It does get down to the nitty gritty on certain operational concepts. This is good.
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Contents
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Thinking Machines and Intelligence | 65 |
The Fourth Discontinuity 1967 | 71 |
Computing Machinery and Intelligence 1950 | 85 |
Symbols and Search 1976 | 109 |
Industrial Robots on the Line 1982 | 317 |
Where Workers Craft New Technology 1985 | 341 |
What is Office Automation? 1980 | 351 |
Personal Computers and Education 1980 1984 | 369 |
Suggestions for Further ReadingSection IV | 397 |
Social Dimensions of Computing | 401 |
The Destruction of Machines in Erewhon 1872 | 407 |
The Technological Society 1954 | 415 |
What is Artificial Intelligence? Extract from | 135 |
Algorithms 1960 | 203 |
Computers Knowledge and the Human Mind 1987 | 223 |
Notes and Suggestions for further ReadingSection II | 239 |
The Trouble with UNIX 1981 | 249 |
Designing the Star User Interface 1982 | 261 |
Training Wheels in a User Interface 1984 | 285 |
The Pioneering Work of Douglas C Engelbart 1987 | 301 |
Suggestions for Further ReadingSection III | 307 |
On the Impact of the Computer on Society 1972 | 431 |
What Computers Mean for Man and Society 1977 | 445 |
Theoretical Perspectives in Social Analyses | 459 |
Engineers and the Work that People Do 1981 | 519 |
Suggestions for further ReadingSection V | 529 |
The Computer and the Poet 1966 | 535 |
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