The Resource Life in code : a personal history of technology, Ellen Ullman
Life in code : a personal history of technology, Ellen Ullman
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The item Life in code : a personal history of technology, Ellen Ullman represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Mid-Continent Public Library.This item is available to borrow from 3 library branches.
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The item Life in code : a personal history of technology, Ellen Ullman represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Mid-Continent Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 3 library branches.
- Summary
- Shares insights into the past half century of online development from an insider's perspective to explore how digital technology has lost its innocence, changing life in unexpected and sometimes sinister ways
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- viii, 306 pages
- Contents
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- Part one: The programming life. Outside of time : reflections on the programming life ; Come in, CQ ; The dumbing down of programming : some thoughts on programming, knowing, and the nature of "easy" ; What we were afraid of as we feared Y2K
- Part two: The rise and first fall of the Internet. The museum of me ; Fiber optic nights ; Off the high ; To catch a falling knife
- Part three: Life, artificial. Programming the post-human : computer science redefines "life" ; Is Sadie the Cat a trick? ; Memory and megabytes ; Dining with robots
- Part four: Three stories about what we owe the past. While I was away ; Close to the mainframe ; The party line
- Part five: The hand that writes the code. Programming for the millions ; Boom two : a farewell
- Isbn
- 9780374534516
- Label
- Life in code : a personal history of technology
- Title
- Life in code
- Title remainder
- a personal history of technology
- Statement of responsibility
- Ellen Ullman
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Shares insights into the past half century of online development from an insider's perspective to explore how digital technology has lost its innocence, changing life in unexpected and sometimes sinister ways
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Ullman, Ellen
- Dewey number
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- 005.1092
- B
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- QA76.2.U43
- LC item number
- A3 2017
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Ullman, Ellen
- Computer programmers
- Computer programming
- Internet
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Life in code : a personal history of technology, Ellen Ullman
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Part one: The programming life. Outside of time : reflections on the programming life ; Come in, CQ ; The dumbing down of programming : some thoughts on programming, knowing, and the nature of "easy" ; What we were afraid of as we feared Y2K -- Part two: The rise and first fall of the Internet. The museum of me ; Fiber optic nights ; Off the high ; To catch a falling knife -- Part three: Life, artificial. Programming the post-human : computer science redefines "life" ; Is Sadie the Cat a trick? ; Memory and megabytes ; Dining with robots -- Part four: Three stories about what we owe the past. While I was away ; Close to the mainframe ; The party line -- Part five: The hand that writes the code. Programming for the millions ; Boom two : a farewell
- Control code
- ocn987376102
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- viii, 306 pages
- Isbn
- 9780374534516
- Lccn
- 2017012764
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Note
- B UL4 ; XX-AB ; [A17BP002, #84, 4@27.00, LAP/RT ]
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) 987376102
- (OCoLC)987376102
- Label
- Life in code : a personal history of technology, Ellen Ullman
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Part one: The programming life. Outside of time : reflections on the programming life ; Come in, CQ ; The dumbing down of programming : some thoughts on programming, knowing, and the nature of "easy" ; What we were afraid of as we feared Y2K -- Part two: The rise and first fall of the Internet. The museum of me ; Fiber optic nights ; Off the high ; To catch a falling knife -- Part three: Life, artificial. Programming the post-human : computer science redefines "life" ; Is Sadie the Cat a trick? ; Memory and megabytes ; Dining with robots -- Part four: Three stories about what we owe the past. While I was away ; Close to the mainframe ; The party line -- Part five: The hand that writes the code. Programming for the millions ; Boom two : a farewell
- Control code
- ocn987376102
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- viii, 306 pages
- Isbn
- 9780374534516
- Lccn
- 2017012764
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Note
- B UL4 ; XX-AB ; [A17BP002, #84, 4@27.00, LAP/RT ]
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) 987376102
- (OCoLC)987376102
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