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An edition of In the Beginning (1997)

In the Beginning

Personal Recollections of Software Pioneers (Perspectives)

1st edition
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This book captures where we are today through a tour of yesterday's achievements to help us better understand the evolution of computing technology. This book recounts the experiences of those who formed and functioned in the "Pioneering Era" of software. In the Beginning: Recollections of Software Pioneers records the stories of computing's past, enabling today's professionals to improve on the realities of yesterday. The stories in this book clearly show modern concepts, such as data abstraction, modularity, and structured approaches, date much earlier in the field than their appearance in academic literature. These stories help capture the true evolution. - Back cover.

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326

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1998, IEEE Computer Society Press
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Table of Contents

Life before software : a few reminiscences / David Myers
Software reflections : a pioneer's view of the history of the field / Robert L. Glass
Reflections on a software life / Watts S. Humphrey
How I watched in pain as IBM outsmarted UNIVAC / Norman F. Scneidewind
An early application generator and other recollections / Barry Boehm
View from below / Robert N. Britcher
Almost thirty years as a change agent / Donald J. Reifer
Leo, the first business computer : a personal experience / Frank Land
Compu-THEN : before megabytes / Ben G. Matley
Four anecdotes / Harold Joseph Highland
The prolonged metamorphosis of a software engineer / Robert L. Baber
Autobiographical snippets / John M. Bennett
Closing the circle / Bruce I. Blum
Before memory was virtual / Peter J. Denning
Growing up with software tools / Raymond C. Houghton

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Washington, Brussels, Tokyo

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Library of Congress
QA76.76.D47 I517 1998, QA76.76.D47G565 1997

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Hardcover
Number of pages
326
Dimensions
9.3 x 6.2 x 0.9 inches
Weight
1.3 pounds

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OL11390407M
ISBN 10
0818679999
ISBN 13
9780818679995
LCCN
97011391
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1359556
Goodreads
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OL1966527W

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