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Reviews the book 'Selected Papers on Analysis of Algorithms,' by Donald E. Knuth.

Reviews the book `Selected Papers on Computer Science,' by Donald E. Knuth.

Reviews the book `Great Papers in Computer Science,' edited by Phillip Laplante.

Reviews the book `The Babbage Papers in the Science Museum Library: A Cross-Reference List,' by Allan Bromley.

The article reviews the book "History of Nordic Computing 2: Second IFIP WG 9.7 Conference (HINC2), With Revised Selected Papers From IFIP AICT 303," edited by John Impagliazzo, Timo Järvi, and Petri Paju.

Reviews the book `From Memex to Hypertext,' edited by James M. Nyce and Paul Kahn.

Reviews the book `Proceedings of the 1998 Conference on the History and Heritage of Scientific Information Systems,' by Mary Ellen Bowden, Trudi Bellardo Hahn, and Robert V. Williams.

Reviews the book 'From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure: Access to Information in the Networked World,' by Christine L. Borgman.

Reviews the book `First Ribnitz Colloquium on the History of Informatics,' edited by Manfred Mohring.

The article reviews the exhibition on the works by Mori Ogai in October 2007 at the Museum of Literature in Kitakyushu, Japan.

Reviews the book "The Digital Hand: How Computers Changed the Work of American Manufacturing, Transportation, and Retail Industries," by James W. Cortada.

Reviews the book "Harry D. Huskey: His Story, BookSurge," by Harry D. Huskey.

Reviews the book "Actes du 7e colloque sur l'Histoire de l'informatique et des Transmissions, Espace Ferrie: Ecole Superieure et d'Application des Transmissions," edited by Jacques Andre and Pierre Mounier-Kuhn.

Reviews the book `Database Nation: The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century,' by Simson L. Garfinkel.

Reviews the book `Collected Works of A.M. Turing: Pure Mathematics,' by A.M. Turing and edited by J.L. Britton. Diverse range of mathematical topics; Part of four-volume series; Eight published and five unpublished papers by Turing; Four related papers by other authors.

Reviews the book `Collected Works of A.M. Turing--Morphogenesis,' by A.M. Turing and edited by P.T. Saunders.

Reviews the book `The Universal Turing Machine: A Half-Century Survey,' edited by Rolf Herken.

Reviews the book `Information and Secrecy: Vannevar Bush, Ultra, and the Other Memex,' by Colin Burke.

Reviews the book `Insanely Great, The Life and Times of Macintosh, the Computer that Changed Everything,' by Steven Levy.

Reviews the book `Claude Elwood Shannon: Collected Papers,' by N. J. A. Sloane, Aaron D. Wyner.

As the first narrative to integrate the many dimensions of cybernetics into a single narrative, this book presents a new answer to this crucial question. For Ronald Kline, cybernetics was most critically a site of contestation, and more specifically of what sociologists term boundary work. Practitioners continuously fought over and redrew the borders of cybernetics, demarcating it from adjacent disciplines like information theory, general systems theory, and bionics, and dividing cybernetics itself into subdisciplines like management cybernetics and medical cybernetics. Many of the founders of the field had the ambition to create a universal discipline, but Kline emphasizes their failure to do so, as practitioners disagreed about the content of cybernetics, fractured it into more narrowly defined disciplines, or carried lessons back to traditional disciplines and, thus, abandoned the project of building a new one. Kline's emphasis on boundary work is supported by his careful attention to shifting alliances, discourses, and research programs. He points out, for example, that the cofounders of cybernetics who attended the Macy Conferences in the 1940s and 1950s focused on feedback and circular causality only in their first meetings; after about 1949, they fixed their attention firmly on the question of how to measure information. Concepts and discourses of information remain a central dimension of the book from that point forward; it devotes a chapter to how scientists constructed information theory as a distinct discipline in the 1950s, and another to how the phrases information technology and information society became ubiquitous tools for making sense of technology and society in the 1980s and 1990s. Kline's accounts of the relationships between cybernetics and the fringe are strongest in these accounts of the 1950s, when many of those involved were canonical founders of cybernetics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The following two books are reviewed: ENIAC ENIAC in Action: Making and Remaking the Modern Computer (Haigh, T., et al; 2016) and FastLane: Managing Science in the Internet World (Misa, T.J. and Yost, J.R.; 2015). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reviews the book "Engineering Communism: How Two Americans Spied for Stalin and Founded the Soviet Silicon Valley," by Steven T. Usdin.

The article reviews the book "The Essential Turing," by A.M. Turing, and edited by B. Jack Copeland.

This Reviews department article covers Dependable and Historic Computing: Essays Dedicated to Brian Randell on the Occasion of His 75th Birthday edited by Cliff B. Jones and John L. Lloyd (Springer, 2011), Inside the Machine: Art and Invention in the Electronic Age by Megan Prelinger (W.W. Norton & Company, 2015), and The Leisure Commons: A Spatial History of Web 2.0 by Payal Arora (Routledge, 2014). [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This Reviews department article covers Moore's Law: The Life of Gordon Moore, Silicon Valley's Quiet Revolutionary by Arnold Thackray, David Brock, and Rachel Jones (Basic Books, 2015); Great Principles of Computing by Peter J. Denning and Craig H. Martell (MIT Press, 2015); The Science of Computing: Shaping of a Discipline by Matti Tedre (CRC Press, 2015), and the 2015 exhibition "The Interface Experience: Forty Years of Digital Computing" at the Bard Graduate Center Galley, New York. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Reviews the book "A History of Telegraphy," by Ken Beauchamp.

Reviews the book `Feynman and Computation: Exploring the Limits of Computers,' edited by Anthony J. G. Hey.

Reviews the book `The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition,' by Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.

This set of Reviews covers Finn Brunton's Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet (MIT Press, 2013), Tom Sito's Moving Innovation: A History of Computer Animation (MIT Press, 2013), and a set of books by Edgar G. Daylight and published by Lonely Scholar Scientific Books (The Essential Knuth, 2013; Pluralism in Software Engineering: Turing Award Winner Peter Naur Explains, 2011; and The Dawn of Software Engineering: From Turing to Dijkstra, 2012) [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This set of Reviews covers Michael Mahoney's Histories of Computing (Harvard University Press, 2011), the 2013 movie Elysium, Paul E. Ceruzzi's Computing: A Concise History (MIT Press, 2012), and James Cortadas The Digital Flood (Oxford University Press, 2012). [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This set of Reviews covers Eden Medina's Cybernetic Revolutionaries (MIT Press, 2011), Per Lundin's Computers in Swedish Society (Springer, 2012), George Dyson's Turing's Cathedral (Pantheon Books, 2012), James W. Cortada's History Hunting (M.E. Sharpe, 2012). [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Annals book reviews [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Reviews the book "Origins of Cyberspace: A Library History of Computing, Networking, and Telecommunications," by Diana H. Hook and Jeremy M. Norman, with contributions by Michael R. Williams.

Reviews the book "Networking the World, 1794-2000," written by Armand Mattellart and translated by Liz Carey-Libbrecht and James A. Cohen.

Reviews the book `HAL's Legacy: 2001's Computer as Dream and Reality,' edited by David G. Stork.

Reviews the book "The Hacking of America: Who's Doing it, Why, and How," by Bernadette H. Schell And John L. Dodge with Steve S. Moutsatsos.

Reviews the book "The History of Mathematical Tables From Sumer to Spreadsheets," edited by Martin Campbell-Kelly, Mary Croarken, Raymond Flood, and Eleanor Robson.

Reviews the book "Telefunken After 100 Years: The Legacy of a Global German Brand," by Erdmann Thiele.

Reviews the book "Strategic Computing: DARPA and the Quest for Machine Intelligence, 1983-1993," by Alex Roland and Philip Shiman.

Reviews the book "Between Human and Machine: Feedback, Control, and Computing Before Cybernetics," by David Mindell.

The article reviews the book "Systematic As Cyberscience: Computers, Change, and Continuity in Science," by Christine Hine.

The article reviews the book "Making Silicon Valley: Innovation and the Growth of High Tech," by Christopher Lécuyer.

The article reviews the book "From Gutenberg to the Internet: A Sourcebook on the History of Information Technology," by Jeremy Norman.

The article reviews the book "When Computers Were Human," by David Alan Grier.

Reviews the book "The Triumph of Numbers: How They Shaped Modern Life," by I. Bernard Cohen.

Reviews the book "Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About," by Donald E. Knuth.

Reviews the book "Cyber Rights: Defending Free Speech in the Digital Age," by Mike Godwin.