Author_Institution :
Freie Universitÿt Berlin
Abstract :
The Reviews department features book reviews of Mike Hally\´s Electronic Brains: Stories from the Dawn of the Computer Age; David Leavitt\´s The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer; and Jim Holt\´s New Yorker article "Code Breaker: The Life and Death of Alan Turing"; Darren Wershler-Henry\´s The Iron Whim: A Fragmented History of Typewriting; JoAnne Yates\´ Structuring the Information Age: Life Insurance and Technology in the Twentieth Century; T.F. Peterson\´s Nightwork: A History of Hacks and Pranks at MIT; and Irene K. Fischer\´s Geodesy? What\´s That?.
Keywords :
Aerospace electronics; Aerospace engineering; Aerospace materials; Biographies; Books; Computational modeling; Difference engines; Economics; Military computing; Production; Alan Turing; business data processing technology; early computers; geodesy; hacker pranks; history of typewriting; life insurance industry;
Journal_Title :
Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MAHC.2007.12
