Histories of Computing / / Michael Sean Mahoney; ed. by Thomas Haigh.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
• VerfasserIn: Mahoney, Michael Sean,
• MitwirkendeR: Buchwald, Jed Z.,; Burnett, D. Graham,; Haigh, Thomas,
• HerausgeberIn: Haigh, Thomas,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (260 p.)

Computer technology is pervasive in the modern world, its role ever more important as it becomes embedded in a myriad of physical systems and disciplinary ways of thinking. The late Michael Sean Mahoney was a pioneer scholar of the history of computing, one of the first established historians of sci...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• List of Figures
• Unexpected Connections, Powerful Precedents, and Big Questions: The Work of Michael Sean Mahoney on the History of Computing
• PART ONE Shaping the History of Computing
• 1 The History of Computing in the History of Technology
• 2 What Makes History?
• 3 Issues in the History of Computing
• 4 The Histories of Computing(s)
• PART TWO Constructing a History for Software
• 5 Software: The Self- Programming Machine
• 6 Extracts from The Roots of Software Engineering
• 7 Finding a History for Software Engineering
• 8 Boys’ Toys and Women’s Work: Feminism Engages Software
• PART THREE The Structures of Computation
• 9 Computing and Mathematics at Prince ton in the 1950s
• 10 Computer Science: The Search for a Mathematical Theory
• 11 Extracts from Computers and Mathematics: The Search for a Discipline of Computer Science
• 12 The Structures of Computation and the Mathematical Structure of Nature
• 13 Extracts from Software as Science— Science as Software
• Éloge: Michael Sean Mahoney, 1939– 2008
• Notes
• Acknowledgments
• Index