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.
Island Tinkerers
Innovation and Transformation in the Making of Taiwan's Computing Industry
ISBN: 9780262549387
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 7, 2025
How Taiwan rose to global prominence in high tech manufacturing, from computer maker to the world's leading chip manufacturer.
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.
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.
Island Tinkerers
Innovation and Transformation in the Making of Taiwan's Computing Industry
ISBN: 9780262549387
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 7, 2025
How Taiwan rose to global prominence in high tech manufacturing, from computer maker to the world's leading chip manufacturer.
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.