Jacquard's web : how a hand-loom led to the birth of the information age by Essinger, James, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…List of illustrations; 1 The engraving that wasn't; 2 A better mousetrap; 3 The son of a master-weaver; 4 The Emperor's new clothes; 5 From weaving to computing; 6 The Difference Engine; 7 The Analytical Engine; 8 A question of faith and funding; 9 The lady who loved the Jacquard loom; 10 A crisis with the American Census; 11 The first Jacquard looms that wove information; 12 The birth of IBM; 13 The Thomas Watson phenomenon; 14 Howard Aiken dreams of a computer; 15 IBM and the Harvard Mark 1; 16 Weaving at the speed of light; 17 The future; Appendix 1: Charles Babbage's vindication…”
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Charles Babbage : And the Engines of Perfection. by Collier, Bruce

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Contents -- Chapter 1: The Making of a Mathematician -- Chapter 2: In Scientific Circles -- Sidebar: Logarithms Explained -- Chapter 3: Inventing the Difference Engine -- Sidebar: Differences in Sequences of Numbers -- Sidebar: Early Mechanical Calculators -- Chapter 4: Reform Is in the Air -- Sidebar: The Operation of the Jacquard Loom -- Chapter 5: Inventing the Analytic Engine -- Chapter 6: Passages in a Philosopher's Life -- Chapter 7: After Babbage -- Museums and Web Sites Related to Charles Babbage -- Chronology -- Further Reading -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.…”
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Hutchinson dictionary of computing and the Internet.

Table of Contents: “…Analogue-to-digital converterADC, -- analogue-to-digital converter -- analyst -- or business analyst or systems analyst, -- analytical engine -- anamorphic projection -- anchor -- AND gate -- Andreessen, Marc (1972â€?…”
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Ada's legacy: cultures of computing from the victorian to the digital age by Hammerman, Robin, Russell, Andrew L., 1975-

Table of Contents: “…Misa -- 2.1 Babbage and Lovelace -- 2.2 Steps to the sketch -- 3. Sketch of the analytical engine invented by Charles Babbage, Esq. / L.F. …”
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Reality mining : using big data to engineer a better world by Eagle, Nathan, Greene, Kate, 1979-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Part 1: Individual (One Person): -- Mobile phones, sensors, and lifelogging: collecting data from individuals while considering privacy -- Using personal data in a privacy-sensitive way to make a person's life easier and healthier -- Part 2: Neighborhood And The Organization (10 to 1,000 People): -- Gathering data from small heterogeneous groups -- Engineering and policy: building more efficient businesses, enabling hyperlocal politics, life queries, and opportunity searches -- Part 3: City (1,000 to 1,000,000 people): -- Traffic data, crime stats, and closed-circuit cameras: accumulating urban analytics -- Engineering and policy: optimizing resource allocation -- Part 4: Nation (1 Million to 100 Million People) -- Taking the pulse of a nation: census, mobile phones, and internet giants -- Engineering and policy: addressing national sentiment, economic deficits, and disasters -- Part 5: Reality Mining The World's Data (100 Million to 7 Billion People): -- Gathering the world's data: global census, international travel and commerce, and planetary-scale communication: -- Engineering a safer and healthier world -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index.…”
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Willful ignorance : the mismeasure of uncertainty by Weisberg, Herbert I., 1944-

Table of Contents: “…Titlepage; Copyright; Epigraph; PREFACE; NOTE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; 1 THE OPPOSITE OF CERTAINTY; Two Dead Ends; Analytical Engines; What is Probability?; Uncertainty; Willful Ignorance; Toward a New Science; Notes; 2 A QUIET REVOLUTION; Thinking the Unthinkable; Inventing Probability; Statistics; The Taming of Chance; The Ignorance Fallacy; The Dilemma of Science; Notes; 3 A MATTER OF CHANCE; Origins; The Famous Correspondence; What Did Not Happen Next; Against The Odds; Notes; 4 HARDLY TOUCHED UPON; The Mathematics of Chance; Empirical Frequencies; A Quantum of Certainty; Notes.…”
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Industrial Process Modelling with Mechanical Frequency Spectrum Data by Tang, Jian, 1974-

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Cloud Analytics with Google Cloud Platform : an end-to-end guide to processing and analyzing big data using Google Cloud Platform. by Thodge, Sanket

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Apache Spark for Data Science Cookbook. by Chitturi, Padma Priya

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Mastering Elasticsearch 5.x - Third Edition. by Dixit, Bharvi

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Learning Elasticsearch. by Andhavarapu, Abhishek

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