An Annotated Bibliography on the History of Data Processing. [Hardcover]

James W. Cortada (Compiler)

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“An Annotated Bibliography of the History of Data Processing contains more than 1,400 annotated items important to the development of the field. The citations are grouped into four general areas, then subdivided by topic and publication date. ...Cortada provides readers with a useful, selective guide to important materials, especially on the precomputer era. Included are many lesser-known and foreign sources not found in more general compilations. ... Author access is provided. ... because there is no other comparable source, this bibliography would be an important acquisition for collections specializing in the history and development of data processing.”–RQ

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An Annotated Bibliography of the History of Data Processing contains more than 1,400 annotated items important to the development of the field. The citations are grouped into four general areas, then subdivided by topic and publication date. ...Cortada provides readers with a useful, selective guide to important materials, especially on the precomputer era. Included are many lesser-known and foreign sources not found in more general compilations. ... Author access is provided. ... because there is no other comparable source, this bibliography would be an important acquisition for collections specializing in the history and development of data processing.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 215 pages
• Publisher: Greenwood Press; annotated edition edition (June 30, 1983)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0313240019
• ISBN-13: 978-0313240010
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,910,672 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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I was trained as an historian with a Ph.D. in modern history, but have spent nearly 40 years at IBM in sales and consulting and am the author of a dozen books on European history and two dozen on the history of information technologies and another dozen on business management. My interests are largely around the role of information in moder societies: use, managemnt, and history. I am currently writing a global history of how computing spread around the world so fast and am publishing a book on how historians think with a lot of my experiences, called Hunting for History. I just did a book on the role of information as THE thing businesses do, make, and worry about, called Information and the Modern Corporation. It was a lot of fun to write and is intended for everyone.

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