This organizational history relates the role of the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the development of modern computing. Drawing upon new and existing oral histories, extensive use of NSF documents, and the experience of two of the authors as senior managers, this book desc…
This organizational history relates the role of the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the development of modern computing. Drawing upon new and existing oral histories, extensive use of NSF documents, and the experience of two of the authors as senior managers, this book desc…
"This organizational history relates the role of the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the development of modern computing. Drawing upon new and existing oral histories, extensive use of NSF documents, and the experience of two of the authors as senior managers, this book des…
Volume 55 covers some particularly hot topics. Linda Harasim writes about education and the Web in "The Virtual University: A State of the Art." She discusses the issues that will need to be addressed if online education is to live up to expectations. Neville Holmes covers a rel…
The story of the "collection of eccentric young inventors brought together by Xerox corporation," of their "hothouse of ideas" including a windows-style graphical user interface and the laser printer, of why Xerox discarded the ideas, and of the individuals involved: Bob Taylor,…
Written by renowned authors and researchers in the field, this invaluable resource presents detailed coverage of recent innovations in computer hardware, software, theory, design, and applications. --
This 97th volume is eclectic in nature. In chapter one, Dr. Varnell-Sarjeant and Prof. Andrews analyze and compare reuse success and failures in embedded versus nonembedded systems. In chapter two, Prof. Roubtsova provides a survey of existing approaches to discrete events behav…
