دانلود کتاب ایده هایی که آینده را خلق کردند – مقالات کلاسیک علوم کامپیوتر

This volume tells the story of computer science in the words that created the field. The collection came into being for two reasons. First, to relieve 21stcentury readers of the misimpression that the established conventions of the field were handed down to contemporary culture in finished form. Computer science has a rich family history that should be known to students and practitioners of the field. And second, to help readers see how important new ideas come to be, how tentative, clumsy baby steps become graceful, progressive strides—or sometimes go nowhere for years and then are taken up again after a long delay. The field is still young and dynamic; anyone looking around it today might see some novelty that will be tomorrow’s canon, hardly recognizable in its infancy. To tell this story I have selected, with considerable anxiety, 46 papers from the earliest times to 1980, and have introduced each with a brief context-setting essay. Each of these papers made a memorable contribution to the field. Many others might have been selected in addition to or instead of these, and the 1980 cut-off date is arbitrary—though it does represent a moment when the field became so diversified as to defy summation in a small collection like this one.