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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"History of Computing"”.
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iLORE: Discovering a Lineage of Microprocessors
… and hardware manufacturers maintain repositories of computer component and performance information. However, this data is split across many isolated sources and is stored in a form that is not conducive to analysis. A centralized repository of said data would arm stakeholders across industry and …
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The State Machine : politics, ideology, and computation in Chile, 1964-1973
This dissertation argues that Chile's history of computing is tightly interwoven with the history of the Chilean state. It begins by documenting the government use of mechanical tabulating machines during the 1920s and 1930s and concludes with the disbanding of the state computer enterprise known …
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Autonomous migration of vertual machines for maximizing resource utilization
Virtualization of computing resources enables multiple virtual machines to run on a physical machine. When many virtual machines are deployed on a cluster of PCs, some physical machines will inevitably experience overload while others are under-utilized over time due to varying computational …
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Transparent cultures: Imagined users and the politics of software design (1975-2012)
The rapid pace of software’s development poses serious challenges for any cultural history of computing. While digital media studies often sidestep historicism, this project asserts that computing’s messy, and often hidden, history can be studied using digital tools built to adapt text-mining …
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Pursuing efficiency in business: the technological and commercial development of LEO Computers
LEO Computers were a series of machines designed, developed, and manufactured for business applications between 1947–1969 by the British catering firm J. Lyons & Co. and its subsidiary LEO Computers Limited. This dissertation takes LEO Computers as a case study for understanding the emergence of …
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Governing the commercial internet: Multistakeholder influences on Clinton era governance of the global internet
… the policies developed during the presidency of Bill Clinton regarding internet governance, starting in 1992 and ending in 2000. Efforts to commercialize the internet began prior to the presidency of Bill Clinton, but the decisions made by that administration accelerated that process. Today, …