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A History of Computing Technology, 2nd Edition
This second edition of the popular reference and textbook outlines the historical developments in computing technology. The book describes historical aspects of calculation and concentrates on the physical devices used to aid people in their attempts at automating the arithmetic process.
A History of Computing Technology... | | Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?: Inside IBM's Historic Turnaround
In 1990, IBM had its most profitable year ever. By 1993, the computer industry had changed so rapidly the company was on its way to losing $16 billion and IBM was on a watch list for extinction -- victimized by its own lumbering size, an insular corporate culture, and the PC era IBM had itself helped invent.
Then Lou Gerstner was... | | The School of Doubt (Brill Studies in Skepticism)
The School of Doubt conducts a parallel philological and philosophical examination
of Cicero’s Academica, a work on Hellenistic epistemology written in
the first half of 45 bce. The treatise has a unique history, insofar as fragments
of two different versions are extant: the second of a two-volume first edition,
a dialogue... |
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Psychiatry and Decolonisation in Uganda (Mental Health in Historical Perspective)
This open access book investigates psychiatry in Uganda during the years of decolonisation. It examines the challenges facing a new generation of psychiatrists as they took over responsibility for psychiatry at the end of empire, and explores the ways psychiatric practices were tied to shifting political and development priorities, periods of... | | iPod & iTunes For Dummies, 3rd EditionImport music, create playlists, burn CDs, and more
Power up your iPod, fill it with tunes, even use it to manage your life
Nothing since the Walkman® has changed the music world like the iPod. But did you know your iPod can also keep your calendar, store photos, and wake you in time for... | | |
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Kinematic Self-Replicating MachinesThe principal goal of molecular nanotechnology (MNT) is to develop a manufacturing technology able to inexpensively manufacture most arrangements of atoms that are consistent with physical law. In terms of its precision, flexibility, and low cost, this will be the ultimate manufacturing technology in human history. Two central mechanisms have been... | | Creating and Digitizing Language Corpora, Volume 2: Diachronic DatabasesA range of electronic corpora has become increasingly accessible via the WWW and CD-ROM. This development coincided with improvements in the standards governing the collecting, encoding and archiving of such data. Less attention, however, has been paid to making other types of digital data available. This is especially true of that which one might... | | |
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