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Author:   Gerard O'Regan
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   Fourth Edition 2026
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9783032042545

ISBN 10:   3032042542
Pages:   435
Publication Date:   03 January 2026
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Preface.- What is a Computer?.- Computing in Early Civilisations.- Foundations of Computing.- The First Digital Computers.- The First Commercial Computers.- Early Commercial Computers and the Invention of the Transistor.- Integrated Circuit and Silicon Valley.- The IBM System/360.- Minicomputers and Later Mainframes.- The Microprocessor Revolution.- Home Computers.- The IBM Personal Computer.-History of Operating Systems.- Birth of Software Industry and Human Computer Interaction.- History of Programming Languages.- History of Software Engineering.- A Short History of Telecommunications.- The Internet Revolution.- The Smartphone and Social Media.- A Miscellany of Innovation.- History of Databases.- History of Artificial Intelligence.- Ethics and Professional Responsibility.- Legal Aspects of Computing.-Computer Crime and Cybersecurity.- Epilogue.- References.- Glossary.- Index.

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Dr. Gerard O'Regan is a CMMI software process improvement consultant with research interests including software quality and software process improvement, mathematical approaches to software quality, and the history of computing. He is the author of such Springer textbooks as Concise Guide to Formal Methods, Concise Guide to Software Engineering, Guide to Discrete Mathematics, and Introduction to Software Quality

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