It Began With Babbage - The Genesis of Computer Science

A complete and accessible history of computer science, beginning with Charles Babbage in 1819.

List of contents

• Prologue


• 1. Leibniz's Theme, Babbage's Dream


• 2. Weaving Algebraic Patterns


• 3. Missing Links


• 4. Entscheidungsproblem : What's in a Word?


• 5. Towards a Holy Grail


• 6. Intermezzo


• 7. A Tangled Web of Inventions


• 8. A Paradigm is Born


• 9. A Liminal Artifact of an Uncommon Nature


• 10. Glimpses of a Scientific Style


• 11. I Compute, Therefore I Am


• 12. 'The Best Way to Design ...'


• 13. Language Games


• 14. Going Heuristic


• 15. An Explosion of Subparadigms


• 16. Aesthetica


• Epilogue


• Dramatis personae


• Bibliography

About the author

Subrata Dasgupta holds a Ph.D in computer science from the University of Alberta. He is a scholar, writer, and professor whose work focuses on the nature of creativity across a variety of fields, most notably computer science. He is the author of fourteen books, including Technology and Creativity (OUP USA , 1996)

Summary

A complete and accessible history of computer science, beginning with Charles Babbage in 1819.

Additional text

The author handles questions of primacy particularly well, giving fair assessments of where concepts were developed before their time, where ideas developed independently, and where cross-fertilization occured. Highly recommended.

Product details

• Authors: Subrata Dasgupta, Subrata (Computer Science Trust Fund Emi Dasgupta, Subrata (Computer Science Trust Fund Eminent Scholar Chair Dasgupta, Dasgupta Subrata
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.02.2014
• EAN: 9780199309412
• ISBN: 978-0-19-930941-2
• No. of pages: 344
• Subjects: Guides; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > IT; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Inventions, COMPUTERS / Computer Science, COMPUTERS / History, computer science, Information technology industries, History of engineering & technology, Inventions & inventors, Inventions and inventors, History of Computing, digital and information technologies