Computers and the World of the Future

Computers and the World of the Future
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Publisher : Cambridge, Mass. : M.I.T. Press, [1964, reprinted 1968]
Total Pages : 376
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015023111928
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Book Synopsis Computers and the World of the Future by : Martin Greenberger

Download or read book Computers and the World of the Future written by Martin Greenberger and published by Cambridge, Mass. : M.I.T. Press, [1964, reprinted 1968]. This book was released on 1964 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writers including Vannevar Bush and Herbert A. Simon discuss the impact of the computer in its first twenty years. Writers discuss the extraordinary growth of the computer in its first twenty years and its use in fields as diverse as medicine and economics, management and physics. Employed in areas once thought to be exclusively the province of the human mind, the computer rendered profound changes in the traditional ways and means of decision making. Contributors C.P. Snow, Walter A. Rosenblith, Norbert Wiener, Vannevar Bush, Herbert A. Simon, Howard W. Johnson, Marvin L. Minsky, Peter Elias, J. C. R. Licklider, Elting E. Morison, Philip M. Morse, Jay W. Forrester, Grace M. Hopper, Alan J. Perlis, John R. Pierce, Robert C. Sprague, Claude E. Shannon, Charles C. Holt, John G. Kemeny, Donald J. Marquis, Gene M. Amdahl, Sidney S. Alexander, Robert M. Fano, and others

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