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Making Silicon Valley :innovation and the growth of high tech, 1930-1970
In Making Silicon Valley, Christophe Lecuyer shows that the explosive growth of the personal computer industry in Silicon Valley was the culmination of decades of growth and innovation in the San Francisco-area electronics industry. Using the tools of science and technology studies, he explores the formation of Silicon Valley as an industrial district, from its beginnings as the home of a few r…
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- 1 online resource (407 pages) :illustrations.
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The LOCUS distributed system architecture
"Computer systems consisting of many machines will be the norm within a few years. However, making a collection of machines appear as a single, coherent system - in which the location of files, servers, programs, or users is invisible to users who do not wish to know - is a very difficult problem. LOCUS, a distributed version of the popular operating system Unix, provides an excellent solution.…
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- 0262288419
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- 1 online resource (xv, 148 pages) :illustrations.
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Leonardo's laptop :human needs and the new computing technologies
"Ben Shneiderman's book dramatically raises computer users' expectations of what they should get from technology. He opens their eyes to new possibilities and invites them to think freshly about future technology. He challenges developers to build products that better support human needs and that are usable at any bandwidth. Shneiderman proposes Leonardo da Vinci as an inspirational muse for th…
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- 9780262256988
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- 1 online resource (xi, 269 pages) :illustrations
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Microsound
A comprehensive presentation of the techniques and aesthetics of composition with sound particles.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262282444
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- 1 online resource (xii, 409 pages) :illustrations
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The Microelectronics revolution :the complete guide to the new technology and…
"The Microelectronics Revolution is a comprehensive guide to the silicon chip revolution and its impact on society. The distinguished contributors to this volume explain in turn the origins and nature of microelectronics, the characteristics of the burgeoning microchip industry and the increasing use of microprocessors in everyday products.The book details the impact of this new technology on s…
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- 0262256169
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 589 pages) :illustrations
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Metamodeling :a study of approximations in queueing models
"In recent years, many approximate methods have been developed for analyzing queueing models of complex computer systems. These ad hoc methods usually focus on specific aspects of system operation, and appear to be different from one another, making it difficult to see the underlying principles of model development, to understand the relationship between different models of the same system, or …
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- 9780262255561
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- 1 online resource (x, 262 pages) :illustrations.
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Protocol :how control exists after decentralization
How Control Exists after DecentralizationIs the Internet a vast arena of unrestricted communication and freely exchanged information or a regulated, highly structured virtual bureaucracy? In Protocol, Alexander Galloway argues that the founding principle of the Net is control, not freedom, and that the controlling power lies in the technical protocols that make network connections (and disconne…
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- 9780262273428
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- 1 online resource (xxvi, 260 pages) :illustrations.
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LISP 1.5 programmer's manual :the Computation Center and Research Laboratory …
Includes index.The manual describes LISP, a formal mathematical language. LISP differs from most programming languages in three important ways. The first way is in the nature of the data.The LISP language is designed primarily for symbolic data processing used for symbolic calculations in differential and integral calculus, electrical circuit theory, mathematical logic, game playing, and other …
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- 1 online resource (vi, 106 pages)
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Explorations in parallel distributed processing :a handbook of models, progra…
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262291279
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- 1 online resource (ix, 355 pages) :illustrations.
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The second self :computers and the human spirit
In The Second Self, Sherry Turkle looks at the computer not as a "tool," but as part of our social and psychological lives; she looks beyond how we use computer games and spreadsheets to explore how the computer affects our awareness of ourselves, of one another, and of our relationship with the world. "Technology," she writes, "catalyzes changes not only in what we do but in how we think." Fir…
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- 20th anniversary ed., 1st MIT Press ed.
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- 9780262257107
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- 1 online resource (xi, 372 pages)
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