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An edition of Slaves of the Machine (1997)

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In Moths to the Flame, Gregory J. E. Rawlins took lay readers on a tour of the exciting and sometimes scary world to which computers are leading us. His second book is for those who are new to computers and want to know what is "under the hood." It shows what computers can do for us and to us.

Each of the six chapters asks a simple question: What are computers? How do we build them? How do we talk to them? How do we program them? What can't they do? Could they think? Written in an accessible, anecdotal form, Slaves of the Machine successfully demystifies the computer. Rawlins presents the birth of the computer, charts its evolution, and envisions its development in terms of the state of the art as of 1997 and into the future.

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MIT Press
Language
English
Pages
135

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Subjects
Computers, Computers and civilization, History, Computers, history, Ordinateurs et civilisation, Ordinateurs, Histoire, Reference, Machine Theory, Computer Literacy, Information Technology, Data Processing, Computer Science, Hardware, General, Engineering & Applied Sciences, Computadores (software)

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1997, MIT Press
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1997, MIT Press
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Edition Notes

"A Bradford book."
Includes index.

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Cambridge, Mass

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
004
Library of Congress
QA76.9.C66 R395 1997, QA76.9.C66R395 1997, QA76.9.C66 R395 1998eb

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Pagination
x, 135 p. ;
Number of pages
135

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OL658794M
Internet Archive
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ISBN 10
0262181835
LCCN
97004013
OCLC/WorldCat
44962217, 36201131
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617002
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1969615

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