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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;">Dear colleagues,
<div>Aristotle Tympas' long awaited book is out now: <span style="font-size: 10pt;"><i>Calculation and Computation in the Pre-electronic Era</i></span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><i>The Mechanical and Electrical Ages</i></span></p>
<div>http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9781848827417</div>
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<div>The book <span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">offers</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> an introduction to the history of computing during the ‘first’ (of steam) and the ‘second’ (of electricity) industrial revolution. It </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">brakes
away from the idea that </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">the history of computing before the second half of the 20th century was unimportant. In fact the Industrial Revolution was made possible and even sustained by a parallel revolution in computing
technology. An examination and historiographical assessment of key developments helps to show how the era of modern electronic computing proceeded from a continual computing revolution that had arisen during the mechanical and the electrical ages.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">To quote David Mindells praise: </span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt;">"In this fascinating, original work, Tympas indispensably intertwines the histories of analog and digital computing, showing them to be inseparable from the evolution of social and economic conditions.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please inspect the Springer page for our series: http://www.springer.com/series/8442</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The previous two volumes in the series by Bill Aspray were not announced to the SIGCIS list. Allow me to just mention them here</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">William Aspray, </span><i style="font-size: 10pt;">Women and Underrepresented Minorities in Computing;</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US">A Historical and Social Study</span></i><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Examines the highly neglected subject of race in the history of science and technology<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319248097<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">William Aspray, <i>Participation in Computing;<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US">The National Science Foundation’s Expansionary Programs</span></i><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Examines the unexplored history of the NSF, an important player in US computer history<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319248301<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Further volumes to come in 2018 PLUS we are about to launch a new series SpringerBriefs in History of Computing (<a href="http://www.springer.com/series/15184">http://www.springer.com/series/15184</a>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best wishes from Amsterdam in spring: only last week the ice on the canals allowed skating.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Gerard Alberts</p>
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