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John Markoff

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Book, Viking Penguin, 2005

Description

While there have been several histories of the personal computer, well-known technology writer John Markoff has created the first ever to spotlight the unique political and cultural forces that gave rise to this revolutionary technology. Based on interviews with all the major surviving players, Markoff vividly captures the lives and times of those who laid the groundwork for the PC revolution, introducing the reader to such colorful characters as Fred Moore, a teenage antiwar protester who went on to ignite the computer industry, and Cap?n Crunch, who wrote the first word processing software for the IBM PC (EZ Writer) in prison, became a millionaire, and ended up homeless. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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Microcomputers · History · Computers and civilization · Nineteen sixties · Markoff, John

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LOCATION	CALL #	STATUS
(UPPER LEVEL)	QA76.17 .M37 2005	AVAILABLE

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Jeffrey R. Yost

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Book, Greenwood Press, 2005

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• TABLE OF CONTENTS

Description

Originally a military and scientific computational tool of a small number of government, scientific, and corporate elites in the late 1940s, the computer has evolved significantly in less than 70 years to become a revolutionary technology and the basis for one the largest industries in America. From punched cards and tabulating machines to the first digital computer companies in the early 1950s, Yost clearly describes how the concept of the computer was born in the late 1800s but did not evolve into the personal computer until the late 1970s and 1980s. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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Computer industry · United States · History · Yost, Jeffrey R

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(LOWER LEVEL)	HD9696.2.U62 Y67 2005	AVAILABLE

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by the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications, National Research Council

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Book, National Academy Press, 1992

Description

Systems integration--the enterprise-wide integration of computer applications--offers an enormous opportunity for U.S. firms to capitalize on their strengths in such areas as complex software, networking, and management. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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Computer industry · United States · Competition, International · National Research Council (U.S.). Computer Science and Telecommunications Board

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(LOWER LEVEL)	HD9696.C63 U52123 1992	AVAILABLE

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by the Computer Science and Technology Board , Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Resources, National Research Council

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Book, National Academy Press, 1990

Description

This book warns that retaining U.S. preeminence in computing at the beginning of the next century will require long-term planning, leadership, and collective will that cannot be attained with a business-as-usual approach by industry or government. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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Computer industry · Government policy · United States · Competition, International · National Research Council (U.S.). Computer Science and Technology Board

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(LOWER LEVEL)	HD9696.C63 U5212 1990	AVAILABLE

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by Thomas G. Sanders

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Book, Universities Field Staff International, 1987

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Computer industry · Brazil · Sanders, Thomas Griffin, 1932- · Universities Field Staff International

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LOCATION	CALL #	STATUS
OVERSIZE (UPPER)	HC187 .S328 1987	AVAILABLE

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Book, Computer Industry Almanac, 1987

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Computer industry · Periodicals

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REFERENCE (MAIN)	HD9696.A1 C65  1990	AVAILABLE

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[by] Y. S. Hu. Foreword by Christopher Layton

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Book, Praeger, 1973

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Investments, American · Europe · Automobile industry and trade · Computer industry · Hu, Y. S

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(LOWER LEVEL)	HG5422 .H8	AVAILABLE

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Stephen T. McClellan

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Book, Wiley, 1983

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Computer industry · McClellan, Stephen T

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(LOWER LEVEL)	HD9696.C62 M4 1983	AVAILABLE

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Michael Knee

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Book, Libraries Unlimited, 2006

Description

As computers have infiltrated virtually every facet of our lives, so has computer science influenced nearly every academic subject in science, engineering, medicine, social science, the arts and humanities. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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Computer science literature · Bibliography · Computer science · Knee, Michael

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(UPPER LEVEL)	QA76 .K56 2006|	AVAILABLE

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Clifford Stoll

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Book, 1st Anchor Books ed, Anchor Books, 2000

Description

In High-Tech Heretic, Clifford Stoll questions the relentless drumbeat for "computer literacy" by educators and the computer industry, particularly since most people just use computers for word processing and games--and computers become outmoded or obsolete much sooner than new textbooks or a good teacher. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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Computer-assisted instruction · Computers and civilization · Internet in education · Stoll, Clifford

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(LOWER LEVEL)	LB1028.5 .S77	AVAILABLE

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Jan Goldberg ; revised by Mark Rowh

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Book, 2nd ed, VGM Career Books, 2003

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• CONTRIBUTOR BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
• PUBLISHER DESCRIPTION

Description

Readers learn to explore their options, target an ideal career, present a major as an asset to a job, perfect a job search, and follow through and get results. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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Computer science · Vocational guidance · Juvenile literature · Computer industry · Employment · Goldberg, Jan · Rowh, Mark

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(UPPER LEVEL)	QA76.25 .G62 2003	AVAILABLE

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edited by Atsushi Akera & Frederik Nebeker

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Book, Oxford University Press, 2002

Description

Computers and their origins have a fascination both for scholars and for ordinary readers, but much of the existing literature on the history of computing is too specialized to interest the general reader. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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Computers · Computer software · Akera, Atsushi · Nebeker, Frederik

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(UPPER LEVEL)	QA76.5 .C724 2002	AVAILABLE

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Owen W. Linzmayer

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Book, No Starch Press, 1999

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Apple Computer, Inc. · History · Computer industry · United States · Linzmayer, Owen W

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(LOWER LEVEL)	HD9696.2.U64 A674 1999	AVAILABLE

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Michael Dell with Catherine Fredman

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Book, 1st ed, HarperBusiness, 1999

Description

From starting a successful business to pioneering computer sales and service over the Internet, Dell shares his perspectives on: Why it's infinitely better for any business starting out to have too little capital, rather than too much How studying your customers--not your competition--will give you a greater competitive edge Why it can be life-threatening to your company to pursue too many good ideas--or to grow too fast Why it's essential to run a P&L on every area of your business Why your people prose a greater threat to the health of your business than your competition does How you can exploit your competition's weakness by exposing its greatest strength How integrating your business virtually can make the difference between being quick--and being dead Revealing nothing less than a new model for doing business in the information age, Direct From Dell is both an extraordinary business success story and a manifesto for revolutionizing any industry. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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Dell Computer Corp. · History · Computer industry · United States · Dell, Michael, 1965- · Fredman, Catherine

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(LOWER LEVEL)	HD9696.2.U64 D45 1999	AVAILABLE

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Peter Evans

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Book, Princeton University Press, 1995

Description

Evans's years of comparative research on the successes and failures of state involvement in the process of industrialization have here been crafted into a persuasive and entertaining work, which demonstrates that successful state action requires an understanding of its own limits, a realistic relationship to the global economy, and the combination of coherent internal organization and close links to society that Evans called "embedded autonomy." (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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Computer industry · Government policy · Brazil · India · Korea (South) · Industrial policy · Evans, Peter B., 1944-

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(LOWER LEVEL)	HD9696.C63 B7345 1995	AVAILABLE

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