The Reviews department features full reviews of Frank Soltis' Fortress Rochester: The Inside Story of the IBM iSeries and Richard Coopey's Information Technology Policy: An International History. The "Briefly Noted" sidebar contains short summaries of Hunter Crowther-Heyck's Herbert A. Simon: The Bounds of Reason in Modern America, Eric Sweden and David Ferro's Computers: The Life Story of a Technology, Galileo Galilei's Le Operazione del Compasso Geometrico et Miltare [Operation of the Geometric and Military Compass], and Elaine Whelan's My Mom's Making History: The Story of Computer Software, Copyrights, and Creativity.
Index Terms:
IBM iSeries, PowerPC, Power4, software integration, e-business trends, IT industry, policy making, artificial intelligence, Galileo's military instrument, copyright legal battles, and Whelan Associates
Citation:
Raul Rojas, "Reviews," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 86-88, Oct.-Dec. 2005, doi:10.1109/MAHC.2005.65