Reviews

Author

Rojas, Renan

Author_Institution

Editor, Freie Universtat Berlin

Volume

27

Issue

4

fYear

2005

Firstpage

86

Lastpage

88

Abstract

The Reviews department features full reviews of Frank Soltis\´ Fortress Rochester: The Inside Story of the IBM iSeries and Richard Coopey\´s Information Technology Policy: An International History. The "Briefly Noted" sidebar contains short summaries of Hunter Crowther-Heyck\´s Herbert A. Simon: The Bounds of Reason in Modern America, Eric Sweden and David Ferro\´s Computers: The Life Story of a Technology, Galileo Galilei\´s Le Operazione del Compasso Geometrico et Miltare [Operation of the Geometric and Military Compass], and Elaine Whelan\´s My Mom\´s Making History: The Story of Computer Software, Copyrights, and Creativity.

Keywords

Galileo´s military instrument; IBM iSeries; IT industry; Power4; PowerPC; and Whelan Associates; artificial intelligence; copyright legal battles; e-business trends; policy making; software integration; Artificial intelligence; Books; CD-ROMs; Econometrics; Electronic design automation and methodology; History; Military computing; Problem-solving; US Government; Writing; Galileo´s military instrument; IBM iSeries; IT industry; Power4; PowerPC; and Whelan Associates; artificial intelligence; copyright legal battles; e-business trends; policy making; software integration;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1058-6180

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MAHC.2005.65

Filename

1549800