Giants of Computing A Compendium of Select, Pivotal Pioneers /

• Main Author: O<U+0019>Regan, Gerard. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Science > History.; Artificial intelligence.; Computer Science.; History of Computing.; History of Science.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5340-5

It has been upon the shoulders of giants that the modern world has been forged. This accessible compendium presents an insight into the great minds responsible for the technology which has transformed our lives. Each pioneer is introduced with a brief biography, followed by a concise account of the...

Table of Contents:

• Background
• Howard Aiken
• Gene Amdahl
• Archimedes
• John Atanasoff
• Charles Babbage
• John Backus
• Gordon Bell
• Tim Berners-Lee
• Dines Bjr̜ner
• George Boole
• Fred Brooks
• Vannevar Bush
• Vint Cerf
• Alonzo Church
• Noam Chomsky
• Edgar Codd
• Ren ̌Descartes
• Tom DeMarco
• Edsger Dijkstra
• George Devol
• Larry Ellison
• Don Estridge
• Michael Fagan
• Tommy Flowers
• Robert Floyd
• Bill Gates
• James Gosling
• C.A.R Hoare
• Heman Hollerith
• Watts Humphrey
• Kenneth Iverson
• Ivar Jacobson
• Steve Jobs
• Gary Kildall
• Donald Knuth
• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
• Ada Lovelace
• John McCarthy
• John Mauchly
• Marvin Minsky
• Gordon Moore
• Grace Murray Hopper
• Ken Olsen
• David Parnas
• Dennis Ritchie
• Dana Scott
• John Searle
• Claude Shannon
• William Shockley
• Richard Stallman
• Bjarne Stroustrup
• Alan Turing
• John von Neumann
• Thomas Watson Sr. and Jr.
• Joseph Weizenbaum
• Frederick Williams
• Niklaus Wirth
• Ed Yourdon
• Konrad Zuse
• Epilogue
• Test Yourself Quizzes
• Glossary.