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UNINA9910461642803321 |
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Ensmenger Nathan <1972-> |
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The computer boys take over : computers, programmers, and the politics of technical expertise / / Nathan Ensmenger |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : MIT Press, , c2010 |
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[Piscataqay, New Jersey] : , : IEEE Xplore, , [2012] |
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1 online resource (331 p.) |
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Computer programming |
Computer programmers |
Software engineering - History |
Computer software - Development - Social aspects |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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"This book provides the most holistic approach to the history of the development of programming and computer systems so far written. By embedding this history in a sociological and political context, Ensmenger has added hugely to our understanding of how the world of computing and its work practices came to be." Martin Campbell-Kelly, Professor of Computer Science, Warwick University. |
"The Computer Boys Take Over shows how computer programmers struggled for professional legitimacy and organizational recognition from the early days of ENIAC through the $300 billion Y2K crisis. Ensmenger's descriptions of ̀computer science' and ̀software engineering,' as well as his portraits of Maurice Wilkes, Alan Turing, John Backus, Edsger Dijkstra, Fred Brooks, and other pioneers, give a compelling introduction to the field." Thomas J. Misa, Director of the Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota. |
"The Computer Boys Take Over rewrites the history of computing by recounting the development of software in terms of labor, gender, and professionalization. Ensmenger meets the long-standing challenge to |
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reform computer history by employing themes of vital interest to the general history of science and technology." Ronald Kline, Bovay Professor in History and Ethics of Engineering, Cornell University. |
Ensmenger follows the rise of the computer boys as they struggled to establish a role for themselves within traditional organizational, professional, and academic hierarchies. He describes the tensions that emerged between the craft-centered practices of vocational programmers, the increasingly theoretical agenda of academic computer science, and the desire of corporate managers to control and routinize the process of software development. In doing so, he provides a human perspective on what is too often treated as a purely technological phenomenon. --Book Jacket. |
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UNINA9910480892403321 |
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Autore |
Göknar Merve Demircioğlu |
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Achieving procreation : childlessness and IVF in Turkey / / Merve Demircioglu Göknar |
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New York, [New York] ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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1 online resource (214 p.) |
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Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality ; ; Volume 29 |
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Childlessness - Turkey |
Infertility - Social aspects - Turkey |
Human reproductive technology - Social aspects - Turkey |
Social medicine - Turkey |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Achieving Procreation; Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality; Achieving Procreation - Childlessness and IVF in Turkey; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 The Desire to Have a Child; Chapter 2 Religion as Discourse and Practice; Chapter 3 Childlessness |
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Among Kin and Friends; Chapter 4 Manhood Ideologies and IVF; Chapter 5 Achievement and Procreation; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index |
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Managing social relationships for childless couples in pro-natalist societies can be a difficult art to master, and may even become an issue of belonging for both men and women. With ethnographic research gathered from two IVF clinics and in two villages in northwestern Turkey, this book explores infertility and assisted reproductive technologies within a secular Muslim population. Goknar investigates the experience of infertility through various perspectives, such as the importance of having a child for women, the mediating role of religion, the power dynamics in same-gender relationships, a |
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