Histories of computing / Michael Sean Mahoney ; edited and with an introduction by Thomas Haigh.

• Unexpected connections, powerful precedents, and big questions: the work of Michael Sean Mahoney on the history of computing / Thomas Haigh -- Shaping the history of computing -- The history of computing in the history of technology -- What makes history? -- Issues in the history of computing -- The histories of computing(s) -- Constructing a history for software -- Software: the self-programming machine -- Extracts from The roots of software engineering -- Finding a history for software engineering -- Extract from Boys' toys and women's work: feminism engages software -- The structures of computation -- Computing and mathematics at Princeton in the 1950s -- Computer science: the search for a mathematical theory -- Extracts from Computers and mathematics: the search for a discipline of computer science -- The structures of computation and the mathematical structure of nature -- Extracts from Software as science, science as software -- Éloge: Michael Sean Mahoney, 1939-2008 / Jed Z. Buchwald and D. Graham Burnett.

• Thirteen of Mahoney's essays and papers covering historiography, software engineering, and theoretical computer science. 

Ämnesord

Datavetenskap  (sao)

Programutveckling  (sao)

Datorer  (sao)

Computer science  -- History. (LCSH)

Software engineering  -- History. (LCSH)

Computers  -- History. (LCSH)

Computer science.  (fast)

Computers.  (fast)

Software engineering.  (fast)

Computers  (LCSH)

Software engineering  (LCSH)

Computer science  (LCSH)

Genre

History.  (fast)

Klassifikation

004 (DDC)

Pu (kssb/8 (machine generated))