This book presents fundamental contributions to computer science as written and recounted by those who made the contributions themselves.

As such, it is a highly original approach to a “living history” of the field of computer science. The scope of the book is broad in that it covers all aspects of computer science, going from the theory of computation, the theory of programming, and the theory of computer system performance, all the way to computer hardware and to major numerical applications of computers.

Readership: Graduate students, academics, and professionals in the
field of computer science.

Key Features
• The book gives an account of major conceptual and practical
developments in computer science, which are presented here by the
major contributors themselves
• All of the authors of the book are themselves pioneers of computers
and of computer science, rather than people who may recount the
major developments from a second-hand perspective