Martin Campbell-Kelly Knihy

This compact history traces the computer industry from 1950s mainframes, through establishment of standards beginning in 1965, to personal computing in the 1980s and the Internet's explosive growth since 1995. Martin Campbell- Kelly and Daniel Garcia-Swartz describe a steady trend toward miniaturization and explain its consequences.

Chronicles the software history's rise from its beginnings in the 1950s to America's fourth largest industrial sector, describing the different kinds of software, products, and markets that developed in the second half of the twentieth century, and profiling top contributors. (Technology)