When Computers Were Human / / David Alan Grier.
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 o...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013] ©2005 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (424 p.) :; 50 halftones. |
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