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History of Computer Devices in Russia
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History of Computer Devices in Russia Hardcover - 2001

by Georg Trogeman; Wolfgang Ernt


From the publisher

This book is the first compendium on the development of the computer in Russia to appear in the West. After briefly illuminating the history of Russian mechanical calculation devices, the book largely focuses on the first generations of (military and civilian) electronic computers, most of which were developed in the Soviet Union during the "Space-Race" and the Cold War, simultaneously with similarly fundamental developments in computing in the U.S.A. The reader is introduced to computers and cybernetics from mathematical, technical, social and cultural perspectives through archive material and through texts by some of the preeminent veterans of Russian computing (historians, engineers, military historians).

First line

The genealogy of the computer and computing sciences as associated with names such as Charles Babbage, Alan Turing, Norbert Wiener, Heinz v. Foerster, Claude Shannon and John v. Neumann has been the object of an impressive number of media-archaeological publications in the German-speaking and Anglo-American areas, but in general the historiography of computing is - even a decennium after the fall of the Iron Curtain - still blind in respect to Eastern Europe.

Details

  • Title History of Computer Devices in Russia
  • Author Georg Trogeman; Wolfgang Ernt
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st
  • Pages 352
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher GWV-Vieweg, U.S.A.
  • Date September 10, 2001
  • ISBN 9783528057572

About the author

Georg Trogemann, professor for information sciences in the section for art and media-studies at the Media Art School, Cologne
Wolfgang Ernst, guest professor for the history, theory and aesthetics of media at the Institute for Film and Television Studies at the Ruhr-University, Bochum Alexander Nitussov, engineer and translator in Moscow and Cologne