Popular Now Oce Only Simple Manual Devices Such As The Abacus Have Helped People Do Calculations Since Ancient Times At The Beginning Of The Industrial Revolution Some Mechanical Devices Were Created To Automate Long Tedious Tasks Such As Laying Out Patterns For Looms More Complex Electric Machines Perfected Analog Calculations In The Early 20th Century The First Digital Electronic Calculating Machines Were Developed During World War Ii The Invention Of The Semiconductor Transistor In The Late 1940s Was Followed By The Silicon Based Mosfet Mos Transistor In The Late 1950s And Monolithic Integrated Circuit Chips Leading To The Microprocessor And Microcomputer Revolutions In The 1970s Since Then Computers Have Grown Exponentially In Speed Power And Versatility With Transistor Speeds Increasing At An Exponential Rate As Predicted By Moore S Law Leading To The Digital Revolution From The Late 20th Century To The Early 21st
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The Real North Korea
In The Real North Korea, Lankov substitutes cold, clear analysis for the overheated rhetoric surrounding this opaque police state. Based on vast expertise, this book reveals how average North Koreans live, how their leaders rule, and how both survive.
When Computers Were Human
Author: David Alan Grier
language: en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date: 2007-09-16
Before Palm Pilots and iPods, PCs and laptops, the term "computer" referred to the people who did scientific calculations by hand. These workers were neither calculating geniuses nor idiot savants but knowledgeable people who, in other circumstances, might have become scientists in their own right. When Computers Were Human represents the first in-depth account of this little-known, 200-year epoch in the history of science and technology. Beginning with the story of his own grandmother, who was trained as a human computer, David Alan Grier provides a poignant introduction to the wider world of women and men who did the hard computational labor of science. His grandmother's casual remark, "I wish I'd used my calculus," hinted at a career deferred and an education forgotten, a secret life unappreciated; like many highly educated women of her generation, she studied to become a human computer because nothing else would offer her a place in the scientific world. The book begins with the return of Halley's comet in 1758 and the effort of three French astronomers to compute its orbit. It ends four cycles later, with a UNIVAC electronic computer projecting the 1986 orbit. In between, Grier tells us about the surveyors of the French Revolution, describes the calculating machines of Charles Babbage, and guides the reader through the Great Depression to marvel at the giant computing room of the Works Progress Administration. When Computers Were Human is the sad but lyrical story of workers who gladly did the hard labor of research calculation in the hope that they might be part of the scientific community. In the end, they were rewarded by a new electronic machine that took the place and the name of those who were, once, the computers.
Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY BILL GATES In this warm, insightful portrait of the Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965, we see the wisdom, humour and curiosity of Richard Feynman through a series of conversations with his friend Ralph Leighton. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965, Richard Feynman was one of the world's greatest theoretical physicists, but he was also a man who fell, often jumped, into adventure. An artist, safecracker, practical joker and storyteller, Feynman's life was a series of combustible combinations made possible by his unique mixture of high intelligence, unquenchable curiosity and eternal scepticism. Over a period of years, Feynman's conversations with his friend Ralph Leighton were first taped and then set down as they appear here, little changed from their spoken form, giving a wise, funny, passionate and totally honest self-portrait of one of the greatest men of our age.