In The Beginning: Recollections Of Software Pioneers
暫譯: 在開始之時:軟體先驅的回憶

Robert L. Glass

  • 出版商: Wiley
  • 出版日期: 1997-12-08
  • 售價: $3,720
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$3,534
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 326
  • 裝訂: Hardcover
  • ISBN: 0818679999
  • ISBN-13: 9780818679995
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Capturing where we are today through a tour of yesterday's achievements and helping us better understand the evolution of computing technology, this book recounts the experiences of those who formed and functioned in the "Pioneering Era." In the Beginning: Recollections of Software Pioneers records the stories of computing's past enabling today's professionals to improve on the realities of yesterday.

The stories in this book clearly show modern concepts such as data abstraction, modularity, and structured approaches date much earlier in the field than their appearance in academic literature. These stories help capture the true evolution. The book illustrates human experiences and industry turning points through personal recollections of the pioneers themselves.

 

Table of Contents:

Preface.

1. Introduction.

2. Before the Beginning: The Pre-Software Era.

Life Before Software, A Few Reminiscences (David Myers).

3. Setting the Stage: Three Eras of Software History.

Software Reflections—A Pioneer's View of the History of the Field (Robert L. Glass).

4. Making the Market: Vendor Pioneers.

Reflections on a Software Life (Watts S. Humphrey).

How I Watched In Pain as IBM Outsmarted UNIVAC (Norman F. Schneidewind).

5. Solving Problems: Application Pioneers.

Aerospace.

An Early Application Generator and Other Recollections (Barry Boehm).

View From Below (Robert N. Britcher).

Almost Thirty Years as a Change Agent (Donald J. Reifer).

Information Systems.

Leo, the First Business Computer: A Personal Experience (Frank Land).

Compu-THEN: Before Megabytes (Ben G. Matley).

Academic Computer Centers

Four Anecdotes (Harold Joseph Highland).

Consulting

The Prolonged Metamorphosis of a Software Engineer (Robert L. Baber).

6. Pursuing Progress: Academic/Laboratory Pioneers.

Autobiographical Snippets (John M. Bennett).

Closing the Circle (Bruce I. Blum).

Before Memory Was Virtual (Peter J. Denning).

Growing Up with Software Tools (Raymond C. Houghton).

7. After the Beginning: Conclusions.

Biographical Sketches of the Contributors.

Index.

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本書透過回顧過去的成就,捕捉我們今天所處的狀態,幫助我們更好地理解計算技術的演變。《在開始之前:軟體先驅的回憶》記錄了計算過去的故事,使當今的專業人士能夠在昨日的現實上進行改進。這本書的故事清楚地顯示出,現代概念如數據抽象、模組化和結構化方法在這個領域的出現早於它們在學術文獻中的出現。這些故事幫助捕捉真正的演變。該書通過先驅者的個人回憶,展示了人類經歷和行業的轉折點。

目錄:
前言。
1. 介紹。
2. 在開始之前:軟體前時代。
軟體之前的生活,一些回憶(David Myers)。
3. 設定舞台:軟體歷史的三個時代。
軟體反思—一位先驅對該領域歷史的看法(Robert L. Glass)。
4. 創造市場:供應商先驅。
對軟體生活的反思(Watts S. Humphrey)。
我如何痛苦地看著 IBM 智勝 UNIVAC(Norman F. Schneidewind)。
5. 解決問題:應用先驅。
航空航天。
一個早期的應用生成器和其他回憶(Barry Boehm)。
從下方的視角(Robert N. Britcher)。
作為變革代理的近三十年(Donald J. Reifer)。
資訊系統。
Leo,第一台商業電腦:個人經歷(Frank Land)。
Compu-THEN:在兆位之前(Ben G. Matley)。
學術計算中心。
四個軼事(Harold Joseph Highland)。
諮詢。
軟體工程師的漫長變遷(Robert L. Baber)。
6. 追求進步:學術/實驗室先驅。
自傳片段(John M. Bennett)。
關閉循環(Bruce I. Blum)。
在記憶虛擬之前(Peter J. Denning)。
與軟體工具一起成長(Raymond C. Houghton)。
7. 在開始之後:結論。
貢獻者的傳記簡介。
索引。