02944nam 2200613 450 991046443360332120200520144314.00-19-756285-X0-19-930942-6(CKB)3710000000076987(EBL)1581028(SSID)ssj0001080560(PQKBManifestationID)12405084(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001080560(PQKBWorkID)11070076(PQKB)10809705(MiAaPQ)EBC1581028(StDuBDS)EDZ0002341124(Au-PeEL)EBL1581028(CaPaEBR)ebr10818022(CaONFJC)MIL550999(OCoLC)865657058(EXLCZ)99371000000007698720131227d2014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrIt began with Babbage the genesis of computer science /Subrata DasguptaNew York :Oxford, University Press,2014.©20141 online resource (346 p.)Oxford scholarship onlinePreviously issued in print: 2014.0-19-930941-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; It Began with Babbage; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue; 1. Leibniz's Th eme, Babbage's Dream; 2. Weaving Algebraic Patterns; 3. Missing Links; 4. Entscheidungsproblem : What's in a Word?; 5 Toward a Holy Grail; 6 Intermezzo; 7 A Tangled Web of Inventions; 8 A Paradigm Is Born; 9 A Liminal Artifact of an Uncommon Nature; 10 Glimpses of a Scientifi c Style; 11 I Compute, Th erefore I Am; 12. "The Best Way to Design . . ."; 13 Language Games; 14. Going Heuristic; 15 An Explosion of Subparadigms; 16 Aesthetica; Epilogue; Dramatis Personae1; Bibliography; IndexAs a field, computer science occupies a unique scientific space, in that its subject matter can exist in both physical and abstract realms. An artifact such as software is both tangible and not, and must be classified as something in between, or 'liminal.' The study and production of liminal artifacts allows for creative possibilities that are, and have been, possible only in computer science. In this volume, Subrata Dasgupta examines the unique history of computer science in terms of its creative innovations, spanning back to Charles Babbage in 1819.Oxford scholarship online.Computer scienceHistory19th centuryComputer scienceHistory20th centuryElectronic books.Computer scienceHistoryComputer scienceHistory004.09Dasgupta Subrata746462MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910464433603321It began with Babbage1914218UNINA