History of Computing
This distinguished series has played a major role in defining scholarship in the history of computing. Hallmarks of the series are its technical detail and interpretation of primary source materials.
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Visions of a Digital Nation
Market and Monopoly in British Telecommunications
ISBN: 9780262546294
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 6, 2024
Why the privatization of British Telecom signaled a pivotal moment in the rise of neoliberalism, and how it was shaped by the longer development and digitalization of Britain's telecommunications infrastructure.
Balkan Cyberia
Cold War Computing, Bulgarian Modernization, and the Information Age behind the Iron Curtain
ISBN: 9780262545129
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: June 13, 2023
How Bulgaria transformed the computer industry behind the Iron Curtain—and the consequences of that transformation for a society that dreamt of a brighter future.
A New History of Modern Computing
A New History of Modern Computing
ISBN: 9780262542906
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 14, 2021
How the computer became universal.
Productivity Machines
German Appropriations of American Technology from Mass Production to Computer Automation
ISBN: 9780262537391
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 1, 2019
How productivity culture and technology became emblematic of the American economic system in pre- and postwar Germany.
Programmed Inequality
How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing
ISBN: 9780262535182
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 23, 2018
This “sobering tale of the real consequences of gender bias” explores how Britain lost its early dominance in computing by systematically discriminating against its most qualified workers: women. (Harvard Magazine)
Recoding Gender
Women's Changing Participation in Computing
ISBN: 9780262534536
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 8, 2017
The untold history of women and computing: how pioneering women succeeded in a field shaped by gender biases.
ENIAC in Action
Making and Remaking the Modern Computer
ISBN: 9780262535175
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 26, 2018
The history of the first programmable electronic computer, from its conception, construction, and use to its afterlife as a part of computing folklore.
Making IT Work
A History of the Computer Services Industry
ISBN: 9780262036726
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 6, 2017
The evolution of the multi-billion-dollar computer services industry, from consulting and programming to data analytics and cloud computing, with case studies of important companies.
Visions of a Digital Nation
Market and Monopoly in British Telecommunications
ISBN: 9780262546294
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 6, 2024
Why the privatization of British Telecom signaled a pivotal moment in the rise of neoliberalism, and how it was shaped by the longer development and digitalization of Britain's telecommunications infrastructure.
Balkan Cyberia
Cold War Computing, Bulgarian Modernization, and the Information Age behind the Iron Curtain
ISBN: 9780262545129
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: June 13, 2023
How Bulgaria transformed the computer industry behind the Iron Curtain—and the consequences of that transformation for a society that dreamt of a brighter future.
A New History of Modern Computing
A New History of Modern Computing
ISBN: 9780262542906
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 14, 2021
How the computer became universal.
Productivity Machines
German Appropriations of American Technology from Mass Production to Computer Automation
ISBN: 9780262537391
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 1, 2019
How productivity culture and technology became emblematic of the American economic system in pre- and postwar Germany.
Programmed Inequality
How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing
ISBN: 9780262535182
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 23, 2018
This “sobering tale of the real consequences of gender bias” explores how Britain lost its early dominance in computing by systematically discriminating against its most qualified workers: women. (Harvard Magazine)
Recoding Gender
Women's Changing Participation in Computing
ISBN: 9780262534536
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 8, 2017
The untold history of women and computing: how pioneering women succeeded in a field shaped by gender biases.
ENIAC in Action
Making and Remaking the Modern Computer
ISBN: 9780262535175
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 26, 2018
The history of the first programmable electronic computer, from its conception, construction, and use to its afterlife as a part of computing folklore.
Making IT Work
A History of the Computer Services Industry
ISBN: 9780262036726
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 6, 2017
The evolution of the multi-billion-dollar computer services industry, from consulting and programming to data analytics and cloud computing, with case studies of important companies.