Edmund Berkeley and the Social Responsibility of Computer Professionals (ACM Books)

by Bernadette Longo (Author), Bernadette Longo (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2016

  $94.99

  Edmund C. Berkeley (1909-1988) was a mathematician, insurance actuary, inventor, publisher, and a founder of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). This biography of Berkeley, based on primary sources, provides a lens to understand social and political decisions surrounding early computer development, and the consequences of these decisions in our 21st century lives.