Who invented the computer? : the legal battle that changed computing history / Alice Rowe Burks ; foreword by Douglas Hofstadter.
2003
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Title
Who invented the computer? : the legal battle that changed computing history / Alice Rowe Burks ; foreword by Douglas Hofstadter.
Published
Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2003.
Call Number
QA76.17 .B87 2003
ISBN
1591020344 (alk. paper)
Description
463 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)51294041
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 439-447) and index.
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Table of Contents
Figures and Tables
7
Acknowledgments
9
Foreword / Douglas Hofstadter
11
All Rise
15
A
Nothing But the Truth
Ch. 1
Mauchly on the Stand
23
Ch. 2
Mauchly in Deposition
51
Ch. 3
Atanasoff as Witness
79
Ch. 4
Mauchly before Atanasoff
119
Ch. 5
Larson from the Bench
145
B
The Court of Public Opinion
Ch. 6
Breaking into Print
193
Ch. 7
Other Voices
211
Ch. 8
Lines in the Sand
247
Ch. 9
The Matter of von Neumann
269
Ch. 10
A Happy Convergence
297
Ch. 11
The Public Eye
327
C
Closing Argument
Ch. 12
As It Happened
371
Ch. 13
Wrap-Up
393
Chronology of Key Events
417
References by Chapter
421
Bibliography
439
Index
449