Editors:
- Contributors include many of the leading historians of computing such as William Aspray, Paul Ceruzzi, and Martin Campbell-Kelly providing expert and authoritative discussion
- The introductory chapter weaves discussion of the book’s content into a bolder and wider discussion of the historical materiality of digitality
- Considering computing’s history within the broader frame of the “early digital” creates new intellectual opportunities to integrate computing, communications, and media scholarship
Part of the book series: History of Computing (HC)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of History, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Milwaukee, USA
Thomas Haigh
About the editor
Thomas Haigh is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and a visiting Comenius Professor for the History of Computing at Siegen University. He writes the historical reflections column for Communications of the ACM, and from 2005 to 2014 was chair of SIGCIS, the group for historians of information technology.
His publications cover a broad range of topics, from the business history of the World Wide Web, to the gendered labor history of data processing and the intellectual history of computer science. He is the primary author of ENIAC in Action (MIT, 2016), editor of Histories of Computing (Harvard, 2011) and the lead editor of the “Histories of the Internet” special edition of Information & Culture (2015).
Haigh is a Fulbright Award winner and in 2017 received the Wilkins and Scranton prizes from the Business History Conference.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Exploring the Early Digital
Editors: Thomas Haigh
Series Title: History of Computing
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02152-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-02151-1Published: 10 May 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-02152-8Published: 30 April 2019
Series ISSN: 2190-6831
Series E-ISSN: 2190-684X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 203
Number of Illustrations: 30 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of Computing, History of Technology, Media and Communication, Digital Humanities, History of Science