Thomas J Misa: 3 books
Leonardo to the Internet
Technology and Culture from the Renaissance to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
Historian Thomas J. Misa’s sweeping history of the relationship between technology and society over the past 500 years reveals how technological innovations have shaped—and have been shaped by—the cultures in which they arose. Spanning the preindustrial past, the age of scientific, political,...
FastLane
Managing Science in the Internet World
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Since 2000, the National Science Foundation has depended upon its pioneering FastLane e-government system to manage grant applications, peer reviews, and reporting. In this behind-the-scenes account Thomas J. Misa and Jeffrey R. Yost examine how powerful forces of science and computing came together...
Digital State
The Story of Minnesota's Computing Industry
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Accounts of the early events of the computing industry—the Turing machine, the massive Colossus, the ENIAC computer—are well-told tales, and equally well known is the later emergence of Silicon Valley and the rise of the personal computer. Yet there is an extraordinary untold middle history—with...