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?An Annotated Bibliography of the History of Data Processing contains more than 1,400 annotated items important to the development of the field. The citations are grouped into four general areas, then subdivided by topic and publication date. ...Cortada provides readers with a useful, selective guide to important materials, especially on the precomputer era. Included are many lesser-known and foreign sources not found in more general compilations. ... Author access is provided. ... because there is no other comparable source, this bibliography would be an important acquisition for collections specializing in the history and development of data processing.?-RQ
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JAMES W. CORTADA is Senior Marketin Programs Administrator for the IBM Corporation.
James W. Cortada is a Senior Research Fellow at the Charles Babbage Institute at the University of Minnesota-Minneapolis. He holds a Ph.D. in modern history and spent nearly 4 decades working at IBM in various sales, managerial, and research positions. His most recent books include
Building Blocks of Society: History, Information Ecosystems, and Infrastructures (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021), with William Aspray,
Authenticity: Understanding Misinformation Through the Study of Heritage Tourism (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022),
Birth of Modern Facts: How the Information Evolution Transformed Academic Research. Governments, and Businesses (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023), and
Today's Facts: Understanding the Current Evolution of Information (Rowman & Littlefield, 2025).
