Preface Acknowledgments Biographical Dictionary Appendix A: Individuals Listed by Date of Birth Appendix B: Individuals Listed by Profession Index
JAMES W. CORTADA is Senior Marketin Programs Administrator for the IBM Corporation.
?[A] tour-de-force appearing as a three-volume work....[T]hese
volumes are especially useful for tracing computer
development....This is an excellent "first reference"
source.?-Communication Booknotes Quarterly
?Although Cortada's three volumes are interrelated and are meant to
be used together, LC has regrettably classed them separately. Taken
together, the volumes offer access to more than 400 entries on all
aspects of data processing. They chronicle the history of those
individuals and organizations that have contributed to the
evolution of data processing over the past two decades, and jointly
form a reference work that has no present parallel in the applied
sciences. The introduction is a thorough history of the computer
age. Biographies contains entries for people who made significant
contributions to the industry from its infancy to the present. This
is the first biographical collection to include both scientists and
industrialists important to the development of computing. Although
most of those included have been active in the 20th century, there
are entries for important earlier contributors (e.g., John Napier,
1550-1617 and Blaise Pascal, 1623-1666). Among those listed are
scientists, industrialists, developers, government officials, and
business people, all inventors in their own way. A baby boomer can
claim to have seen the computer industry virtually in its
entirety--the development and evolution of components and products,
the shifts in labor markets, developments in trade, marketing, and
specifications. Cortada has pulled together a large amount of
information to provide a concise history of data processing.
References are contained in endnotes to articles rather than in
general bibliographies; indexing is well done, and cross-references
are relevant and useful. An important set, enlightening and a
pleasure to read, that belongs in all libraries that collect on any
aspect ofdata processing.?-Choice
"�A� tour-de-force appearing as a three-volume work....�T�hese
volumes are especially useful for tracing computer
development....This is an excellent "first reference"
source."-Communication Booknotes Quarterly
"[A] tour-de-force appearing as a three-volume work....[T]hese
volumes are especially useful for tracing computer
development....This is an excellent "first reference"
source."-Communication Booknotes Quarterly
"Although Cortada's three volumes are interrelated and are meant to
be used together, LC has regrettably classed them separately. Taken
together, the volumes offer access to more than 400 entries on all
aspects of data processing. They chronicle the history of those
individuals and organizations that have contributed to the
evolution of data processing over the past two decades, and jointly
form a reference work that has no present parallel in the applied
sciences. The introduction is a thorough history of the computer
age. Biographies contains entries for people who made significant
contributions to the industry from its infancy to the present. This
is the first biographical collection to include both scientists and
industrialists important to the development of computing. Although
most of those included have been active in the 20th century, there
are entries for important earlier contributors (e.g., John Napier,
1550-1617 and Blaise Pascal, 1623-1666). Among those listed are
scientists, industrialists, developers, government officials, and
business people, all inventors in their own way. A baby boomer can
claim to have seen the computer industry virtually in its
entirety--the development and evolution of components and products,
the shifts in labor markets, developments in trade, marketing, and
specifications. Cortada has pulled together a large amount of
information to provide a concise history of data processing.
References are contained in endnotes to articles rather than in
general bibliographies; indexing is well done, and cross-references
are relevant and useful. An important set, enlightening and a
pleasure to read, that belongs in all libraries that collect on any
aspect ofdata processing."-Choice
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