• DocumentCode
    65040
  • Title

    Reviewing the Early Days of Computing [Book Review]

  • Author

    Shallit, Jeffrey

  • Author_Institution
    University of Waterloo
  • Volume
    16
  • Issue
    6
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    Nov.-Dec. 2014
  • Firstpage
    8
  • Lastpage
    9
  • Abstract
    Here, Jeffrey Shallit reviews the book It Began with Babbage: The Genesis of Computer Science by Subrata Dasgupta, assessing its contents, organization, and the audience for which it´s suitable.
  • Keywords
    Book reviews; Computer lanugages; Computers; History; Charles Babbage; computational science; computer science; computing history; scientific computing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Computing in Science & Engineering
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1521-9615
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MCSE.2014.128
  • Filename
    6970998