It's the electronic age, and computers are all around us. They help us; they hinder us; but they aren't going away. Some would call this the greatest success story of our time. But along the way there have been failure stories, as well. This book collects the biggest and best of those. Why did GE, RCA, and Xeroz leap in, then stagger out of the computing business? This books tell about the companies, the computers, and the people whose computing ventures went the way of the Edsel and the Studebaker. The author, Robert L. Glass, is a well-known spinner of computing failure stories.
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Robert L. Glass is president of Computing Trends, a software publishing and consulting company. He has been an active technologist in the computing field for over 40 years, and is the author of 23 books and 66 published papers on computing topics. He is also a columnist for several computing periodicals, including Communications of the ACM, and IEEE Software. "My head is in the academic world of computing," he says, "but my heart is in its practice."
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Robert L. Glass held his first job in computing in 1954. Author of over 25 books, he is one of the true pioneers of the software field. He is the editor and publisher of The Software Practitioner newsletter, and has written regular columns for Communications of the ACM, IEEE Software, and Information Systems Management. In 1995 he was awarded an honorary Ph.D. from Linkoping University of Sweden, and in 1999 he was named a Fellow of the ACM professional society. His unique viewpoint and timeless (often contrarian!)writings have for decades offered insights to practitioners, managers, professors, entrepreneurs, researchers, and students alike. Recent books include Software Conflict 2.0 and Software Creativity 2.0, from developer.* Books, Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering, from Addison-Wesley, and The Dark Dide of Software Engineering, from Wiley/IEEE CS Press.
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