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Smarter than their machines : oral histories of pioneers in interactive computing / John Cullinane.

By: Material type: TextSeries: ACM books ; #4.Publisher: [New York] : Association for Computing Machinery ; [San Rafael, California] : Morgan & Claypool, 2015Edition: First editionDescription: 1 PDF (xii, 204 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • electronic
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781627055512
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 004.0922 23
LOC classification:
  • QA76.2.A2 C857 2015
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Also available in print.
Contents:
1. Two entrepreneurs with the same idea : Herbert W. Robinson (CEIR), Sam Wyly (University Computing Company) -- 2. Two computer designers who thought big : Richard Bloch (Honeywell 800, 400, 200), Gene Amdahl (IBM System/360) -- 3. Timesharing in academia and ARPA : J.C.R. Licklider, Ivan Sutherland -- 4. Packet switching and ARPANET : Lawrence G. Roberts, Robert Kahn -- Photographs -- 5. Artificial intelligence and changes at MIT and DARPA : Marvin L. Minsky, Michael Dertouzos -- 6. Creating something great in unusual places : Joseph F. Traub (Carnegie Mellon, Columbia University) -- 7. Creating the industry's first successful software products company : John Cullinane -- 8. Summary -- Author's biography.
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1. Two entrepreneurs with the same idea : Herbert W. Robinson (CEIR), Sam Wyly (University Computing Company) -- 2. Two computer designers who thought big : Richard Bloch (Honeywell 800, 400, 200), Gene Amdahl (IBM System/360) -- 3. Timesharing in academia and ARPA : J.C.R. Licklider, Ivan Sutherland -- 4. Packet switching and ARPANET : Lawrence G. Roberts, Robert Kahn -- Photographs -- 5. Artificial intelligence and changes at MIT and DARPA : Marvin L. Minsky, Michael Dertouzos -- 6. Creating something great in unusual places : Joseph F. Traub (Carnegie Mellon, Columbia University) -- 7. Creating the industry's first successful software products company : John Cullinane -- 8. Summary -- Author's biography.

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