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Of all of the revolutionary technological innovations of the 20th century, none is as widely recognized, as celebrated, or as profoundly influential as the invention of the electronic digital computer. But like all great social and technological developments, the computer revolution of the twentieth century didn’t just happen. It had to be made to happen, and made to happen by people, not impersonal processes.
In The Computer Boys Take Over, Nathan Ensmenger describes the emergence of a new breed of technical specialists — computer programmers, systems analysts, and data processing managers — who built their careers around the powerful new technology of electronic computing. It was these largely anon… More >>
The Computer Boys Take Over: Computers, Programmers, and the Politics of Technical Expertise
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The Computer Boys Take Over: Computers, Programmers, and the Politics of Technical Expertise
Category Computing
Dungeons and Desktops: The History of Computer Role-playing Games
Category Video Games
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Computer role-playing games (CRPGs) are a special genre of computer games that bring the tabletop role-playing experience of games such as Dungeons & Dragons to the computer screen. This genre includes classics such as Ultima and The Bard’s Tale as well as more modern games such as World of Warcraft and Guild Wars. Written in an engaging style for both the computer game enthusiast and the more casual computer game player, this book explores the history of the genre by telling the stories of the developers, games, and gamers who created it…. More >>
Dungeons and Desktops: The History of Computer Role-playing Games
Reconfigurable Computing: Architectures, Tools and Applications: 6th International Symposium, ARC 2010, Bangkok, Thailand, March 17-19, 2010, Proceedings … Computer Science and General Issues)
Category Computing
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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Reconfigurable Computing: Architectures, Tools and Applications, ARC 2010, held in Bangkok Thailand, in March 2010. The 42 papers presented, consisting of 26 full and 16 short papers, were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The topics covered are practical applications of the RC technology, RC architectures, TC design methodologies and tools, and RC education…. More >>
Reconfigurable Computing: Architectures, Tools and Applications: 6th International Symposium, ARC 2010, Bangkok, Thailand, March 17-19, 2010, Proceedings … Computer Science and General Issues)
Nerd Story – Nerd Sex and Other Tales from the Great Computer Revolution
Category General
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You know you’re a nerd if:
You get Best Buy gift cards from friends and family.
You’ve hacked your gaming station.
You carry a thumb drive on your key chain.
You can press ‘3’ twice to get an ‘e’ without looking at your phone.
You chuckle at the definition “Recursive (adj): See recursive.”
Of course F is a number and G isn’t. Duh.
You know that DDR isn’t just Dance Dance Revolution.
You know that “42” is the answer to life, the universe, and everything.
You’ve been on a geocache treasure hunt.
Integrating Computer Technology into the Classroom: Skills for the 21st Century
Category Technology
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KEY BENEFIT: This textbook provides new features to help prospective teachers understand the potential of using computers in the classroom and the development of new methods for using computers. This computers in education textbook is constructed around a constructivist lesson-planning model. The authors provide a rationale for integrating computers into the classroom curriculum by using them as a tool, rather than just an instructional delivery device. The book features new activities to reinforce material, including questions at the beginning of each chapter that focus on key content and key connections to be made between chapters, and hands-on activities at the end of each chapter. Authentic co… More >>
Integrating Computer Technology into the Classroom: Skills for the 21st Century
Project Management Made Simple: A Guide to Successful Management of Computer Systems Projects
Category Computing
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This guide provides a set of comprehensive guidelines to help beginning and experienced computer systems project managers effectively control and direct software development and maintenance activities. It features discussions on all the tasks, deliverables, responsibilities, and timing requirements needed to manage software projects on-time and within budget. The book is designed to serve as an aid to all those involved with developing, supporting, managing and maintaining computer software systems, including project and technical managers, systems programmers and analysts, systems testers, quality assurance specialists, development program managers, and software product managers…. More >>
Project Management Made Simple: A Guide to Successful Management of Computer Systems Projects
Anti-Virus Tools & Techniques for Computer
Category Computing
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Anti-Virus Tools & Techniques for Computer
Linear Programs & Related Problems: A Volume in the COMPUTER SCIENCE and SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING Series
Category Computing
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This text is concerned primarily with the theory of linear and nonlinear programming, and a number of closely-related problems, and with algorithms appropriate to those problems. In the first part of the book, the authors introduce the concept of duality which serves as a unifying concept throughout the book. The simplex algorithm is presented along with modifications and adaptations to problems with special structures. Two alternative algorithms, the ellipsoidal algorithm and Karmarker’s algorithm, are also discussed, along with numerical considerations. the second part of the book looks at specific types of problems and methods for their solution. This book is designed as a textbook for mathematical programmi… More >>
Linear Programs & Related Problems: A Volume in the COMPUTER SCIENCE and SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING Series
Trusted Computing – Challenges and Applications: First International Conference on Trusted Computing and Trust in Information Technologies, TRUST 2008 … Computer Science / Security and Cryptology)
Category Computing
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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the First International Conference on Trusted Computing and Trust in Information Technologies, TRUST 2008, held in Villach, Austria, in March 2008. The 13 revised full papers presented together with 1 invited lecture were carefully reviewed and selected from 43 submissions. The papers cover the core issues of trust in IT systems and present recent leading edge developments in the field of trusted infrastructure and computing to foster the international knowledge exchange necessary to catch up with the latest trends in science and technology developments…. More >>
Trusted Computing – Challenges and Applications: First International Conference on Trusted Computing and Trust in Information Technologies, TRUST 2008 … Computer Science / Security and Cryptology)
The Ethics of Computer Games
Category Video Games
- ISBN13: 9780262012652
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Despite the emergence of computer games as a dominant cultural industry (and the accompanying emergence of computer games as the subject of scholarly research), we know little or nothing about the ethics of computer games. Considerations of the morality of computer games seldom go beyond intermittent portrayals of them in the mass media as training devices for teenage serial killers. In this first scholarly exploration of the subject, Miguel Sicart addresses broader issues about the ethics of games, the ethics of playing the games, and the ethical responsibilities of game designers. He argues that computer games are ethical objects, that computer game players are ethical agents, and that the ethics of computer … More >>
The Ethics of Computer Games