Steve Lohr: 4 books
Go To
The Story of the Math Majors, Bridge Players, Engineers, Chess Wizards, Maverick Scientists, and Ico
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2008
In Go To, Steve Lohr chronicles the history of software from the early days of complex mathematical codes mastered by a few thousand to today's era of user-friendly software and over six million professional programmers worldwide. Lohr maps out the unique seductions of programming, and gives us an...
Data-ism
The Revolution Transforming Decision Making, Consumer Behavior, and Almost Everything Else
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
By one estimate, 90 percent of all of the data in history was created in the last two years. In 2014, International Data Corporation calculated the data universe at 4.4 zettabytes, or 4.4 trillion gigabytes. That much information, in volume, could fill enough slender iPad Air tablets to create a stack...
Dit is big data
wat het is, hoe het werkt en wat het oplevert
Language: Dutch
Release Date: May 6, 2015
Als er tegenwoordig een nieuwe hype lijkt te bestaan, dan is het wel `Big Data'. De explosieve groei aan digitale gegevens wordt door marketing managers, multinationals en overheden triomfantelijk binnengehaald als het nieuwe goud. De data-revolutie gaat al onze vragen beantwoorden zelfs nog voordat...
Digital Revolutionaries
The Men and Women Who Brought Computing to Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
In the beginning, there was the computer. And it was big. As big as a room. Sometimes as big as a house. Early computers required teams of white-coated scientists to keep them running, yet one of those giant behemoths could not match the computing power of a single microchip today. From the first...