Review
“Yost offers researchers investigating the first three decades of computing a well-researched, coherently arranged, elegantly annotated reference source. It includes primary and secondary English-language materials that meet the author's criteria of originality, analysis, and contextual value. Especially valuable are the descriptions of "hidden" (hard-to-find) resources, such as archival materials....The book's introduction easily stands on its own as a nicely crafted primer of computing history. An outstanding resource and unique key to the historical role of computing as a tool of science. Essential. Upper-division undergraduates and higher.”–Choice
“[A] very useful guide to the first three decades of computer applications to scientific purposes....This should save researchers a good deal of search time.”–Communication Booknotes Quarterly
“Yost has done a thorough job in compliling a wealth of comprehensive and unique sources.... A well-researched and comprehensive bibliography, this guide would be appropriate for academic libraries.”–E-Streams
“[A] very useful guide to the first three decades of computer applications to scientific purposes....This should save researchers a good deal of search time.”–
“Yost has done a thorough job in compliling a wealth of comprehensive and unique sources.... A well-researched and comprehensive bibliography, this guide would be appropriate for academic libraries.”–
Book Description
Contains references to the most significant resources on scientific computing in the three decades following the advent of digital computers in the mid-1940s.
