CBI is pleased to announce the electronic availability of Jim Cortada's computer-applications bibliography. You can download the book-length document (a large PDF file) here: http://www.cbi.umn.edu/hostedpublications/index.html --------------------------------------------------------------------------- A Bibliographic Guide to the History of Computer Applications, 1950-1990 By James W. Cortada (compiler) Published by Greenwood Press in 1996, and electronically published here with permission, this was the first bibliography on the applications of computing. The 1600 annotated entries are divided into two dozen sections on (e.g.) accounting, agriculture, airline reservations, architecture, banking, construction, education, insurance, legal, medical, military, and many more. This 100 MB PDF file contains ‘bookmarks’ to assist readers in locating entries. The book formed groundwork for Cortada’s _Digital Hand_ trilogy. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Best, Tom -- Thomas J. Misa Director, Charles Babbage Institute 211 Andersen Library 222 - 21st Avenue South University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN 55455 612 624.5050 tel 612 625.8054 fax http://www.cbi.umn.edu Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Program for History of Science, Technology & Medicine ===========================================================