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Giants of Computing

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Background
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    Chapter 2 Howard Aiken
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    Chapter 3 Gene Amdahl
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    Chapter 4 Archimedes
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    Chapter 5 John Atanasoff
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    Chapter 6 Charles Babbage
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    Chapter 7 John Backus
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    Chapter 8 Gordon Bell
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    Chapter 9 Tim Berners-Lee
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    Chapter 10 Dines Bjørner
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    Chapter 11 George Boole
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    Chapter 12 Fred Brooks
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    Chapter 13 Vannevar Bush
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    Chapter 14 Vint Cerf
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    Chapter 15 Alonzo Church
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    Chapter 16 Noam Chomsky
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    Chapter 17 Edgar Codd
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    Chapter 18 René Descartes
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    Chapter 19 Tom DeMarco
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    Chapter 20 Edsger Dijkstra
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    Chapter 21 George Devol
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    Chapter 22 Larry Ellison
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    Chapter 23 Don Estridge
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    Chapter 24 Michael Fagan
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    Chapter 25 Tommy Flowers
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    Chapter 26 Robert Floyd
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    Chapter 27 Bill Gates
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    Chapter 28 James Gosling
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    Chapter 29 C.A.R. Hoare
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    Chapter 30 Herman Hollerith
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    Chapter 31 Watts Humphrey
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    Chapter 32 Kenneth Iverson
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    Chapter 33 Ivar Jacobson
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    Chapter 34 Steve Jobs
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    Chapter 35 Gary Kildall
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    Chapter 36 Donald Knuth
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    Chapter 37 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
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    Chapter 38 Ada Lovelace
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    Chapter 39 John McCarthy
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    Chapter 40 John Mauchly
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    Chapter 41 Marvin Minsky
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    Chapter 42 Gordon Moore
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    Chapter 43 Grace Murray Hopper
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    Chapter 44 John von Neumann
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    Chapter 45 Ken Olsen
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    Chapter 46 David Parnas
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    Chapter 47 Dennis Ritchie
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    Chapter 48 Dana Scott
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    Chapter 49 John Searle
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    Chapter 50 Claude Shannon
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    Chapter 51 William Shockley
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    Chapter 52 Richard Stallman
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    Chapter 53 Bjarne Stroustrup
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    Chapter 54 Alan Turing
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    Chapter 55 Thomas Watson Sr. and Jr.
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    Chapter 56 Joseph Weizenbaum
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    Chapter 57 Frederick Williams
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    Chapter 58 Niklaus Wirth
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    Chapter 59 Ed Yourdon
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    Chapter 60 Konrad Zuse
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    Chapter 61 Epilogue
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Title
Giants of Computing
Published by
Springer Science & Business Media, August 2013
DOI 10.1007/978-1-4471-5340-5
ISBNs
978-1-4471-5340-5, 978-1-4471-5339-9, 978-1-4471-6226-1
Authors

Gerard O’Regan, O’Regan, Gerard

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 2%
Portugal 1 2%
Unknown 41 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 9 21%
Student > Bachelor 7 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 14%
Researcher 5 12%
Professor 2 5%
Other 6 14%
Unknown 8 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Computer Science 13 30%
Engineering 6 14%
Business, Management and Accounting 5 12%
Mathematics 3 7%
Philosophy 3 7%
Other 4 9%
Unknown 9 21%