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Computer programming : from Ada Lovelace to Mark Zuckerberg / by Doudna, Kelly,1963-author.(CARDINAL)651214;

Includes index.Computing life -- Programming preview -- Hefty hardware -- Terrific transitions -- Fast forward -- Great graphics -- Incredible Internet -- Mobile might -- A future in the cloud."Explore the exciting history of computer programming from Babbage's Analytical Engine, through ENIAC, punch cards, and the cloud! Readers will learn about the amazing scientists, inventors, and innovators throughout history whose work shaped the course of computer science. Table of contents, diagram, fun facts, a glossary, and an index are included." --Publisher's website.3-6.860LAccelerated Reader AR

Subjects: Biographies.; Lovelace, Ada King, Countess of, 1815-1852; Zuckerberg, Mark, 1984-; Computer programmers; Computer science; Software engineering; Inventors;

Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4

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The invention of the computer / by Beevor, Lucy,author.(CARDINAL)628257;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Computers can be found nearly everywhere these days. But that wasn't the case just 50 years ago. Take a historic journey to discover how computers developed over time, from early mechanical calculators to the enormous, room-filling ENIAC to smartphones and tablets. Learn about Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and other great minds that influenced the invention of the computer.--back coverAge 8-10.900LAccelerated Reader AR

Subjects: Computers; Computer science;

Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2

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The man who invented the computer : the biography of John Atanasoff, digital pioneer / by Smiley, Jane.;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-232) and index.One night in the late 1930s, in a bar on the Illinois-Iowa border, John Vincent Atanasoff, a professor of physics at Iowa State University, after a frustrating day performing tedious mathematical calculations in his lab, hit on the idea that the binary number system and electronic switches, combined with an array of capacitors on a moving drum to serve as memory, could yield a computing machine that would make his life easier. Then he went back and built the machine. It worked, but he never patented the device, and the developers of the far-better-known ENIAC almost certainly stole critical ideas from him. But in 1973 a court declared that the patent on that Sperry Rand device was invalid, opening the gates to the computer revolution. Biographer Jane Smiley makes the race to develop digital computing as gripping as a real-life techno-thriller.--From publisher description.

Subjects: Biographies.; Atanasoff, John V. (John Vincent); Sperry Rand (Corporation); Computer scientists; Inventors; Physicists; College teachers; Electronic digital computers; Patents; Intellectual property;

Available copies: 9 / Total copies: 10

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Smaller faster lighter denser cheaper : how innovation keeps proving the catastrophists wrong / by Bryce, Robert,1960-(CARDINAL)406741;

Includes bibliographical references and index."In the face of today's environmental and economic challenges, doomsayers preach that the only way to stave off disaster is for humans to reverse course: to de-industrialize, re-localize, ban the use of modern energy sources and forswear prosperity. But in this provocative and optimistic rebuke to the catastrophists, Robert Bryce shows how innovation and the inexorable human desire to make things Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper is providing consumers with Cheaper and more abundant energy, Faster computing, Lighter vehicles, and a myriad of other goods. That same desire is fostering unprecedented prosperity, greater liberty, and yes, better environmental protection. Utilizing on-the-ground reporting from Ottawa to Panama City and Pittsburgh to Bakersfield, Bryce shows how we have, for centuries, been pushing for Smaller Faster solutions to our problems. From the vacuum tube, mass-produced fertilizer, and the printing press to mobile phones, nanotech, and advanced drill rigs, Bryce breezily demonstrates how cutting-edge companies and breakthrough technologies have created a world in which people are living longer, freer, healthier, lives than at any time in human history. In an entertaining narrative enhanced with sharp graphics and numerous photographs, he shows that the push toward Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper is happening in multiple sectors. He profiles innovative individuals and companies, from well-known ones like Ford and Intel to upstarts like Aquion Energy and Khan Academy. And he zeroes in on the energy industry, separating fact from sentiment. Wind and biofuels may be the political darlings of the moment, but Bryce proves that the future belongs to the high-power-density sources that can provide the enormous quantities of energy the world demands. Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper demonstrates that the tools we need to save the planet aren't to be found in the technologies or lifestyles of the past. Nor must we sacrifice prosperity and human progress to ensure our survival. The catastrophists have been wrong since the days of Thomas Malthus. It's time to ignore the fearmongers. It's time to embrace the innovators and businesses all over the world who are making things Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper because, well, that's what we humans do"--

Subjects: Technological innovations;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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The Smithsonian's History of America in 101 Objects / by Kurin, Richard,1950-(CARDINAL)740823;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 735-743) and index.Before Columbus : 525 million years ago to 1492. Burgess shale fossils ; Bald eagle ; Clovis stone points ; Mississippian birdman copper plate -- New World : 1492 to mid-Eighteenth century. Christopher Columbus's portrait ; Spanish Mission hide painting of Saint Anthony ; Pocahontas's portrait ; Plymouth Rock fragment ; Slave shackles ; Americæ Nova Tabula (map) -- Let freedom ring : 1760s to 1820s. Declaration of Independence ; George Washington's uniform and sword ; Benjamin Franklin's walking stick ; Gilbert Stuart's Lansdowne portrait of George Washington ; Star-spangled banner ; Thomas Jefferson's bible -- Young nation : late Eighteenth century to 1850s. Conestoga wagon ; Eli Whitney's cotton gin ; John Deere's steel plow ; Isaac Singer's sewing machine ; Nauvoo Temple sun stone -- Sea to shinning sea : 1800 to 1850s. Lewis and Clark's pocket compass ; John Bull steam locomotive ; Samuel Colt's revolver ; Morse-Vail telegraph ; Mexican army coat ; Gold discovery flake from Sutter's Mill ; Martha, the last passenger pigeon -- A house divided : 1850 to 1865. Frederick Douglass's ambrotype portrait ; Harriet Tubman's hymnal and shawl ; Emancipation Proclamation pamphlet ; Christian Fleetwood's Medal of Honor ; Appomattox Court House furnishings ; Abraham Lincoln's hat -- Manifest Destiny : 1845 to early Twentieth century. Albert Bierstadt's Among the Sierra Nevada, California ; King Kamehameha III's feather cape ; American buffalo ; Sitting Bull's drawing book ; Bugle from the U.S.S. Maine -- Industrial Revolution : 1865 to early Twentieth century. Alexander Graham Bell's telephone ; Thomas Edison's lightbulb ; Frédéric Bartholdi's Liberty ; Andrew Carnegie's mansion ; Ford model T ; Wright brothers' Kitty Hawk Flyer ; Bakelizer plastic maker -- Modern nation : 1870s to 1929. James Whistler's Harmony in Blue and Gold : the Peacock Room ; Bernice Palmer's Kodak Brownie camera ; Helen Keller's watch ; Suffragists' "Great Demand" banner ; Ku Klux Klan robe and hood ; World War I gas mask ; Louis Armstrong's trumpet ; Scopes "Monkey Trial" photograph ; Spirit of St. Louis ; Babe Ruth autographed baseball -- Great Depression : 1929 to 1940. Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Fireside Chat" microphone ; John L. Lewis's union badge ; Marian Anderson's mink coat ; Dorothy's ruby slippers ; Woody Guthrie's "This Land is Your Land" -- Greatest Generation : 1941 to 1945. U.S.S. Oklahoma postal hand stamps ; Spirit of Tuskegee ; "We Can Do It!" poster of Rosie the riveter ; Japanese American World War II internment art ; Audie Murphy's Eisenhower jacket ; Enola Gay -- Cold War : 1946 to 1991. Fallout shelter ; Mercury Friendship 7 ; Huey helicopter ; Pandas from China ; Berlin Wall fragment -- New frontiers : 1950s to 1980s. Jonas Salk's polio vaccine ; Jacqueline Kennedy's inaugural ball gown ; Julia Child's kitchen ; The pill and its dispenser ; Neil Armstrong's space suit ; "Mr. Cycle" PCR machine ; Space shuttle Discovery -- Civil rights : 1947 to now. Greensboro lunch counter ; Muhammad Ali's boxing gear ; Bob Dylan poster by Milton Glaser ; Cesar Chavez's union jacket ; Gay civil rights picket signs ; AIDS memorial quilt panel -- Pop culture : mid-Twentieth century to now. Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse ; RCA television set ; Chuck Berry's Gibson guitar ; Katharine Hepburn's Oscars ; Hope diamond ; Andy Warhol's Marilyn Monroe ; McDonald's golden arches sign ; Kermit the Frog ; Star Wars' R2-D2 and C-3PO -- Digital age : 1945 to now. ENIAC ; Apples' Macintosh computer ; Nam June Paik's Electronic Superhighway -- New millennium : 2000 to the future. New York Fire Department engine door from September 11 ; Shepard Fairey's Barack Obama "Hope" portrait ; David Boxley's Tsimshian totem pole ; Giant Magellan telescope -- What's not included? -- Old things, new studies -- Object specifications and photographic credits -- Time line of American history.The Smithsonian Institution is America's largest and most cherished repository for the objects that define our common heritage. Richard Kurin, its Under Secretary for History, Art, and Culture, has for decades served as a driving force in the effort of our national museums to tell America's whole story. This book is the culmination of a broad effort, led by Kurin and involving all the Smithsonian's national museums and more than a hundred of its top scholars and curators, to select a set of objects that could collectively represent the American experience. Each entry pairs the fascinating history of each object with the place it has come to occupy in our national memory. Kurin sheds new light on familiar objects such as the Star-Spangled Banner, Abraham Lincoln's stovepipe hat, Dorothy's ruby slippers, Julia Child's kitchen, the giant pandas, and the space shuttle Discovery -- including the often astonishing tales of how each made its way into the Smithsonian. Other objects, like the suffragists' "Great Demand" banner and the Tuskegee flyer, will be eye-opening new discoveries for many, but no less evocative of the most poignant and important moments of American history. Still others, like Sitting Bull's drawing book, Cesar Chavez's union jacket, and the Enola Gay bomber, illustrate difficult chapters in the nation's history. Kurin also includes behind-the-scenes insight into controversies arising from their exhibition at the Smithsonian.

Subjects: Exhibition catalogs.; Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution;

Available copies: 25 / Total copies: 26

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Time great inventions : geniuses and gizmos: innovation in our time / by McCann Fenton, Matthew,editor.(CARDINAL)426095; Time, Inc.(CARDINAL)147095;

Subjects: Inventions; Inventors.;

Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 4

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To her credit / by Culmo, Kaitlin,author.(CARDINAL)885546; Gabriella, Kezia,illustrator.; McDermott, Emily(writer and editor),author.(CARDINAL)885547;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-204) and index.Women writing history. Enheduanna (ca. 2286-2251 BCE) ; Murasaki Shikibu (978-ca. 1014 CE) ; Mary Shelley (1797-1851) ; Judy Malloy (1942-) -- There's more to art than meets the eye. Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) ; Alice Guy Blaché (1873-1968) ; Lillie P. Bliss, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, and Mary Quinn Sullivan (1929) ; Janet Sobel (1893-1968) -- Music to a woman's ears. Maria Anna Mozart (1751-1829) ; Fanny Mendelssohn (1805-1847) ; Rosetta Nubin, aka Sister Rosetta Tharpe (1915-1973) ; Willie Mae Thornton, aka Big Mama Thornton (1926-1984) -- Taking to the streets. Pauli Murray (1910-1985) ; Anna Arnold Hedgeman and Dorothy Height (1899-1990; 1912-2010) -- Down to earth. Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) ; Mary Anning (1799-1847) ; Marie Tharp (1920-2006) ; Gladys Mae West (1930-) -- That's one small step for man, one giant leap for womankind. The Harvard Computers (late 19th century-early 20th century) ; Mileva Marić (1875-1948) ; Katherine Johnson (1918-2020) ; Vera Rubin (1928-2016) ; Jocelyn Bell Burnell (1943-) -- Dropping the bomb-- on science. Lise Meitner (1878-1968) ; Chien-Shiung Wu (1912-1997) ; Women don't just give life: they save it. Trota of Salerno (11th or 12th century) ; Mary Hunt (1943-unknown) ; Elizabeth Bugie Gregory (1920-2001) ; Esther Lederberg (1922-2006) -- It runs in the family. Nettie Stevens (1861-1912) ; Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958) ; Marthe Gautier (1925-2022) -- Coding new realities. Ada Lovelace (1815-1852) ; The ENIAC programmers: Kathleen McNulty, Betty Jean Jennings, Elizabeth Snyder, Marlyn Wescoff, Frances Bilas, and Ruth Lichterman (1946) ; Hedy Lamarr (1914-2000) -- Who runs the world? Women. Fatima al-Fihri (800-880 AD) ; Wu Zhao Zetian (624-705 AD) ; Martha Matilda Harper (1857-1950)."There's history as it's told, and then there's history as it actually happened. You may think you know the stories behind the world's most well-known, groundbreaking achievements, but To Her Credit is here to make you reevaluate our collective story as it has been written. This book celebrates the stories of women, from ancient times until the 1990s, whose contributions have been overwritten and, far too often, accredited to men"--

Subjects: Biographies.; Misinformation; Women; Women; Women.; Womyn.;

Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2

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