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Based on David Alan Grier's "In Our Time," a monthly column in Computer magazine and a popular podcast on Computing Now,
Too Soon to Tell presents a collection of essays skillfully written
about the computer age, an era that began February 1946. Examining ideas that
are both contemporary and timeless, these chronological essays examine the
revolutionary nature of the computer, the relation between machines and human
institutions, and the connections between fathers and sons to provide general
readers with a picture of a specific technology that attempted to rebuild human
institutions in its own image.
David Alan Grier writes the "In Our Time" column for
Computer magazine and is the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, The
Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University. His
first book, When Computers Were Human (Princeton University Press,
2005), won favorable reviews on NPR's MarketPlace, and in Nature
and Discover. Grier writes across a wide variety of genres, including
general news pieces for The Washington Post, children's articles, and
academic pieces for American Mathematics Monthly and the
Communications of the ACM. His background includes five years at the
Burroughs Computer Corporation as a designer and a customer support technician;
he also taught computer science at George Washington University for a decade,
and is a past editor in chief for IEEE Annals of the History of
Computing.
238 pages, 9 x 6 x 0.6" Paperback
ISBN 0-470-08035-3, March 2009
$29.99 List / $25.49 Members
This IEEE
Computer Society - Wiley book is distributed by our partner, John Wiley
& Sons, Inc. and may be purchased online at Wiley.com
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