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Histories of Computing
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Michael Sean Mahoney
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Thomas Haigh
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English
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2011
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Michael Sean Mahoney was one of the first scholars to take seriously the challenges posed by information technology to our understanding of the twentieth century. Thomas Haigh collects thirteen of his essays and papers in a landmark work that will interest computer professionals as well as historians of technology and science.
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Michael Sean Mahoney was first and foremost a historian of science and technology. He came to the history, or as he preferred to say, histories of computing from a thorough background in the development of early modern science and mathematics and of modern technology. More recently he achieved a command of computer science that enabled him to present it as growing out of aspects of the work, on the one hand, of Isaac Newton, Christiaan Huygens, and René Descartes and, on the other, of Henry Ford.
-- Charles Coulston Gillispie, author of Essays and Reviews in History and History of Science
-- Charles Coulston Gillispie, author of Essays and Reviews in History and History of Science
Even while its cultural influence spreads and develops, the computer remains a challenging enigma. It is one thing and many, a metamorphic instrument of continually growing abilities advancing on our own. We face this challenge in an historical and historiographical poverty that makes us reluctant if not unable to notice the clues leading to the questions we need to ask. In the humanities, mainly ignorant of what computing is, and so unable to say what it is for beyond clever servitude, we are largely stuck implementing deliverables and reiterating frustrations half a century old. In the essays collected here Mahoney's learned, brilliantly insightful and determined pacing at the edge of the jungle (as he put it) is paradoxically the beginning of our exodus.
-- Willard McCarty, King's College London
-- Willard McCarty, King's College London
This collection of seminal essays of historian Mike Mahoney, with commentary by Thomas Haigh, rewards the reader with a superbly organized panorama of the history of modern computing, its intellectual roots, and its place in the history of technology.
-- Charles E. Stenard, Ph.D. (ret. Bell Labs)
-- Charles E. Stenard, Ph.D. (ret. Bell Labs)
Mahoney understood computer history's significance, and his writings on the subject are important.
-- William Baer Library Journal
-- William Baer Library Journal
Newcomers to Mahoney will find great value in this collection.
-- M. Mounts Choice
-- M. Mounts Choice
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PART ONE Shaping the History of Computing
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PART TWO Constructing a History for Software
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