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In March 1997, the Association for Computing Machinery will celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the electronic computer. To understand what an extraordinary fifty years the computer has had, you need only look around you--probably no farther than your desk. Computers are everywhere: in our cars, our homes, our supermarkets, at the phone company office, and at your local hospital. But as the contributors to this volume make clear, the scientific, social and economic impact of computers is only beginning to be felt. These sixteen invited essays on the future of computing take on a dazzling variety of topics, with opinions from such experts as Gordon Bell, Sherry Turkle, Edsger W. Dijkstra, Paul Abraham, Donald Norman, Franz Alt, and David Gelernter. This brilliantly eclectic collection, commissioned to celebrate a major milestone in an ongoing technological revolution, will fascinate anybody with an interest in computers and where they're taking us.
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Coming Revolution
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Computers and Human Identity
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Business and Innovation
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Beyond Calculation
Book Subtitle: The Next Fifty Years of Computing
Authors: Peter J. Denning, Robert M. Metcalfe
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0685-9
Publisher: Copernicus New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1997
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-387-98588-6Published: 25 September 1998
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4612-0685-9Published: 06 December 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 313
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations
Topics: Computer Science, general