Kim W Tracy

Software

A Technical History

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Building on concepts from the history of science and technology, this volume examines such areas as fundamentals, operating systems, programming languages, programming environments, networking, and databases. Topics are covered from their earliest beginnings to their modern variants.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Association for Computing Machinery 6504698
• Seitenzahl: 358
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 192mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 670g
• ISBN-13: 9781450387255
• ISBN-10: 145038725X
• Artikelnr.: 62814110

Autorenporträt

Kim W. Tracy has a long and varied history in many different aspects of software. Trained as a second-generation computer scientist with many of his professors being first-generation computer scientists, he's worked on a wide variety of software ranging from system software (UNIX® at Bell Labs) to database systems and expert systems. While at Bell Labs, he worked on a number of different products including the 5ESS® Telephone Switch, as well as consulting for clients around the world. He has since served as Chief Information Officer at Northeastern Illinois University and oversaw all aspects of the technology used by the university. He's also taught many courses in computer science that range over traditional computer science, software engineering, and information technology. He currently teaches computer science and software engineering full-time at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. He is co-author of the textbook Object-Oriented Artificial Intelligence Using C++. He's also been involved with university-level computing program accreditation with ABET for several decades. He's a senior member of ACM and IEEE and a member of the Society for the History of Technology. He serves on the ACM History Committee and has served as editor-in-chief of IEEE Potentials magazine as well as other IEEE boards and committees.