The Early British Computer Conferences
Author | : Michael R. Williams |
Publisher | : MIT Press (MA) |
Total Pages | : 536 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Michael R. Williams |
Publisher | : MIT Press (MA) |
Total Pages | : 536 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Computers |
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Author | : Simon Hugh Lavington |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 9780719008108 |
Author | : Mar Hicks |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2018-02-23 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 0262535181 |
This “sobering tale of the real consequences of gender bias” explores how Britain lost its early dominance in computing by systematically discriminating against its most qualified workers: women (Harvard Magazine) In 1944, Britain led the world in electronic computing. By 1974, the British computer industry was all but extinct. What happened in the intervening thirty years holds lessons for all postindustrial superpowers. As Britain struggled to use technology to retain its global power, the nation’s inability to manage its technical labor force hobbled its transition into the information age. In Programmed Inequality, Mar Hicks explores the story of labor feminization and gendered technocracy that undercut British efforts to computerize. That failure sprang from the government’s systematic neglect of its largest trained technical workforce simply because they were women. Women were a hidden engine of growth in high technology from World War II to the 1960s. As computing experienced a gender flip, becoming male-identified in the 1960s and 1970s, labor problems grew into structural ones and gender discrimination caused the nation’s largest computer user—the civil service and sprawling public sector—to make decisions that were disastrous for the British computer industry and the nation as a whole. Drawing on recently opened government files, personal interviews, and the archives of major British computer companies, Programmed Inequality takes aim at the fiction of technological meritocracy. Hicks explains why, even today, possessing technical skill is not enough to ensure that women will rise to the top in science and technology fields. Programmed Inequality shows how the disappearance of women from the field had grave macroeconomic consequences for Britain, and why the United States risks repeating those errors in the twenty-first century.
Author | : British Computer Society |
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Release | : 19?? |
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Author | : British Computer Society |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Michael R. Williams |
Publisher | : Wiley-IEEE Computer Society Press |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 1997-04-10 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : |
This revised edition of the popular reference and textbook outlines the historical developments in computing technology. It explains and describes historical aspects of calculation with an emphasis on the physical devices used in different times to aid people in their attempts at automating the process of arithmetic.
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Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 1966 |
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Author | : New York Public Library. Research Libraries |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 660 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Congresses and conventions |
ISBN | : |
Vols. for 1975- include publications cataloged by the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library with additional entries from the Library of Congress MARC tapes.
Author | : Tim Kelly |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2018-03-26 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1351204378 |
Originally published in 1987, this book explores the history and geography of the computer industry in Britain and the evolution of the market leader firms, STC ICL and IBM (UK). It also examines the rising rate of new firm formation in the 1980s and the technology policies adopted by successive governments and analyses how well the industry is placed to cope with the challenges of technological change and increased international competition.
Author | : Sophia Drossopoulou |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 2008-04-03 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 3540787399 |
This proceedings volume of the 17th European Symposium on Programming examines fundamental issues in the specification, analysis and implementation of programming languages and systems, including static analysis, security, concurrency and program verification.