"This is an account of the development of computing and computer science in India by someone who has lived through it all. Mathai Joseph has a unique perspective on the explosion of one of the most dramatic changes in fortune a country has even seen. The book is divided into short historical sections about the development of computing in India and the rest of the world, interleaved with the chapters of a historical narrative. The book starts in the 1960s and ends around 2007."--Back cover.