For decades, cognitive scientists have debated what kind of representation might
characterize human concepts. Whatever the format of the representation, it must allow for the …

Reviews the historical writings about the development of information science (IS), focusing
on the literature between 1989 and 1994. Highlights include a background; intellectual …

This pocket-sized introduction to computational thinking and problem-solving traces its
genealogy centuries before the digital computer. A few decades into the digital era …

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From the first digital computer to the dot-com crash—a story of individuals, institutions, and
the forces that led to a series of dramatic transformations. This engaging history covers …

Does Silicon Valley deserve all the credit for digital creativity and social media? Joy Rankin
questions this triumphalism by revisiting a pre-PC time when schools were not the last stop …

In Media Ecologies, Matthew Fuller asks what happens when media systems interact.
Complex objects such as media systems-understood here as processes, or elements in a …

Computer: A History of the Information Machine traces the history of the computer and its
unlimited, information-processing potential. Comprehensive and accessibly written, this fully …

This book covers the way computing was handled before the arrival of electronic computers.
It discusses manual information processing and early technologies. The book describes the …

Before Palm Pilots and iPods, PCs and laptops, the term" computer" referred to the people
who did scientific calculations by hand. These workers were neither calculating geniuses …