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  • Leonardo to the Internet

    Technology and Culture from the Renaissance to the Present

    by Thomas J. Misa ...
    Series series Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology
    Now updated — A comprehensive, 500-year history of technology in society.Historian Thomas J. Misa's sweeping history of the relationship between technology and society over the past 500 years reveals how technological innovations have shaped—and have been shaped by—the cultures in which they arose. Spanning the preindustrial past, the age of scientific, political, and industrial revolutions, as ... Read more

    $29.49 USD

  • Digital State

    The Story of Minnesota's Computing Industry

    by Thomas J. Misa ...
    Accounts of the early events of the computing industry—the Turing machine, the massive Colossus, the ENIAC computer—are well-told tales, and equally well known is the later emergence of Silicon Valley and the rise of the personal computer. Yet there is an extraordinary untold middle history—with deep roots in Minnesota. From the end of World War II through the 1970s, Minnesota was home to the ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • FastLane

    Managing Science in the Internet World

    by Thomas J. Misa, Jeffrey R. Yost ...
    Series series Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology
    The unique history and development of FastLane, the central nervous system of the National Science Foundation.Since 2000, the National Science Foundation has depended upon its pioneering FastLane e-government system to manage grant applications, peer reviews, and reporting. In this behind-the-scenes account Thomas J. Misa and Jeffrey R. Yost examine how powerful forces of science and computing ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

  • Communities of Computing

    Computer Science and Society in the ACM

    Edited by Thomas J. Misa ...
    Series series ACM Books
    Communities of Computing is the first book-length history of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), founded in 1947 and with a membership today of 100,000 worldwide. It profiles ACM's notable SIGs, active chapters, and individual members, setting ACM's history into a rich social and political context. The book's 12 core chapters are organized into three thematic sections. "Defining the ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • Gender Codes

    Why Women Are Leaving Computing

    Edited by Thomas J. Misa ...
    The computing profession faces a serious gender crisis. Today, fewer women enter computing than anytime in the past 25 years. This book provides an unprecedented look at the history of women and men in computing, detailing how the computing profession emerged and matured, and how the field became male coded. Women's experiences working in offices, education, libraries, programming, and government ... Read more

    $35.00 USD

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    Leonardo to the Internet

    Technology and Culture from the Renaissance to the Present 3rd Edition

    by Thomas J. Misa ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Todd Ross ...
    Series series Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology

    Unabridged

    19 hours 46 min

    Now updated—A comprehensive, 500-year history of technology in society.Historian Thomas J. Misa's sweeping history of the relationship between technology and society over the past 500 years reveals how technological innovations have shaped—and have been shaped by—the cultures in which theyarose. Spanning the preindustrial past, the age of scientific, political, and industrial revolutions, as well ... Read more

    $30.99 USD