James L Pelkey, Andrew L Russell, Loring G Robbins

Gebundenes Buch

Circuits, Packets, and Protocols

Entrepreneurs and Computer Communications, 1968-1988

Beschreibung

Tells the story of the entrepreneurs who were able to harness the energy of computer science researchers supported by governments and universities, and the tremendous commercial demand for Internetworking computers. The centerpiece of this history comes from unpublished interviews from the late 1980s with over 80 computing industry pioneers.

Autor

James L. Pelkey spent his career as an investor and executive, including terms as a general partner at Montgomery Securities, President of Sorcim Corporation and Digital Sound Corporation, and, after his retirement, Trustee and Chairman of the Santa Fe Institute. He is a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1968) and Harvard Business School (1970). He now lives in Maui, Hawai´i. Andrew L. Russell is Professor of History and Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences at SUNY Polytechnic Institute in Utica, New York. He is the author of numerous books and articles on the history of technology, standardization, and innovation, including Open Standards and the Digital Age: History, Ideology, and Networks (Cambridge University Press, 2014), and co-author with Lee Vinsel of The Innovation Delusion: How Our Obsession with the New Disrupts the Work That Matters Most (Currency, 2020). Loring G. Robbins is a freelance writer based in Maui, Hawai´i. Previously, he worked as an animator and animation director for several media startups in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Association for Computing Machinery 6504698
• Seitenzahl: 632
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. April 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 191mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 1288g
• ISBN-13: 9781450397261
• ISBN-10: 1450397263
• Artikelnr.: 63987159