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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For Fun and Profit
A History of the Free and Open Source Software Revolution
ISBN: 9780262551786
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 9, 2024
The free and open source software movement, from its origins in hacker culture, through the development of GNU and Linux, to its commercial use today.
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.
IBM
The Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon
ISBN: 9780262547826
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 1, 2023
A history of one of the most influential American companies of the last century.
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.
Cellular
An Economic and Business History of the International Mobile-Phone Industry
ISBN: 9780262543927
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 18, 2022
Tracks the evolution of the international cellular industry from the late 1970s to the present.
A New History of Modern Computing
ISBN: 9780262542906
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 14, 2021
How the computer became universal.
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)
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.
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.
For Fun and Profit
A History of the Free and Open Source Software Revolution
ISBN: 9780262551786
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 9, 2024
The free and open source software movement, from its origins in hacker culture, through the development of GNU and Linux, to its commercial use today.
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.
IBM
The Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon
ISBN: 9780262547826
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 1, 2023
A history of one of the most influential American companies of the last century.
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.
Cellular
An Economic and Business History of the International Mobile-Phone Industry
ISBN: 9780262543927
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 18, 2022
Tracks the evolution of the international cellular industry from the late 1970s to the present.
A New History of Modern Computing
ISBN: 9780262542906
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 14, 2021
How the computer became universal.
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)
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.
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.