Transforming Computer Technology: Information Processing for the Pentagon, 1962-1986

by Arthur L. Norberg

Book Overview

Over the course of several decades, the Pentagon's Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO) helped transform computing from a cumbersome enterprise based on batch processing to the instantly interactive, graphically rich, highly intelligent computing of today. With the purpose of improving command and control systems for the military, IPTO researchers strengthened time-sharing, laid the groundwork for graphics and parallel processing, contributed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801863694
• ISBN13: 9780801863691
• Release Date: February 2000
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"