[SIGCIS-Members] ACM Books' **corrected** pricing on NSF--CISE history

[Kevin Walsh]

All,

Yes - the online version of the book is available by way of the ACM Digital
Library.  doi>10.1145/3336323

PDF and ebPub.

Student Membership PLUS Digital Library is $42.00 annually and provides
access to ACM conference proceedings and all titles in the Digital Library
and Skillsoft courses.   It is well worth it.

There are other discounts for foreign students and joint society members.
Professional Membership is $199.

Folks at research universities like UC have free access to the ACM Digital
Library.

Thanks,
Kevin Walsh
UC San Diego

in ref to...

On Sat, Dec 14, 2019 at 1:13 PM Thomas Misa <tmisa at umn.edu> wrote:

> Dear colleagues,
>
> Apologies that ACM Books messed up with initial pricing for the recently
> published Computing and the National Science Foundation, 1950-2016 by Peter
> Freeman, Rick Adrion, and Bill Aspray.  ACM Books promised me to price its
> history titles at $40 softcover / $60 hardback — roughly in line with
> market rates.  This correction now made on Amazon.  Readers also may have
> access through a subscription model (something like JSTOR & Project Muse)
> through your local research/university library.
>
> https://www.amazon.com/Computing-National-Science-Foundation-1950-2016-ebook/dp/B081TMBMNC/
>
>
> The answer to :: which federal agency is the primary source of funding for
> fundamental research in computing and information technologies . . . . . ?
> NSF supported . . . the first widely-used web browser, Netscape; sponsored
> . . . algorithms at the core of the Google search engine; facilitated the
> growth of the public Internet; and funded research on the scientific basis
> for countless other applications and technologies.  It’s a story that
> computing historians really need to know, and these authors make good use
> of their insider perspectives, access to documents, and dozens of new oral
> histories (deposited now at CBI)   http://books.acm.org/titles#tab2022
>
> ACM Books has half a dozen history titles in advanced stages of
> preparation.  Please be looking for . . .
>
>    >>> Code Nation: Personal Computing and the Learn to Program Movement
> in America by Michael Halvorson (with personal access to Microsoft
> activities (all too rare!) treatment of professional/applications
> programming == think MSDOS, Windows, C, Visual Basic)
>
>    >>> Software: A Technical History by Kim Tracy with chapters on . . .
> operating systems . . . programming languages . . . programming
> environments/tools . . . networking . . . database management . . . and
> software futures
>
>    >>> Emergence of Internetworking, 1968-1988 is a connected narrative by
> Jim Pelkey and Andy Russell based on 80 new/unpublished oral histories with
> industry pioneers and luminaries (interviews available at CHM)
>
> Best wishes, Tom Misa
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