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000742947 1001_ $$aMisa, Thomas J.
000742947 24510 $$aDigital state :$$bthe story of Minnesota's computing industry /$$cThomas J. Misa.
000742947 264_1 $$aMinneapolis :$$bUniversity of Minnesota Press,$$c[2013]
000742947 264_4 $$c©2013
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000742947 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 275-287) and index.
000742947 5058_ $$aMachine generated contents note: -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Minnesota Goes High-Tech -- 1. Philadelphia Story: Wartime Origins of Minnesota Computing -- 2. St. Paul Startup: Engineering Research Associates Builds a Pioneering Computer -- 3. Corporate Computing: Univac Creates a High-Tech Minnesota Industry -- 4. Innovation Machine: Control Data's Supercomputers, Services, and Social Vision -- 5. First Computer: Honeywell, Partnerships, and the Politics of Patents -- 6. Big Blue: Manufacturing and Innovation at IBM Rochester -- 7. Industrial Dynamics: Minnesota Embraces the Information Economy -- 8. High-Technology Innovation: Medical Devices and Beyond.
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000742947 520__ $$a" Accounts of the early events of the computing industry--the Turing machine, the massive Colossus, the ENIAC computer--are well-told tales, and equally well-known is the later emergence of Silicon Valley and the rise of the personal computer. Yet there is an extraordinary untold middle history--with deep roots in Minnesota. From the end of World War II through the 1970s, Minnesota was home to the first computing-centered industrial district in the world. Drawing on rare archival documents, photographs, and a wealth of oral histories, Digital State unveils the remarkable story of computer development in the heartland after World War II. These decades found corporations--concentrated in large part in Minnesota--designing state-of-the-art mainframe technologies, revolutionizing new methods of magnetic data storage, and, for the first time, truly integrating software and hardware into valuable products for the American government and public. Minnesota-based companies such as Engineering Research Associates, Univac, Control Data, Cray Research, Honeywell, and IBM Rochester were major international players and together formed an unrivaled epicenter advancing digital technologies. These companies not only brought vibrant economic growth to Minnesota, they nurtured the state's present-day medical device and software industries and possibly even tomorrow's nanotechnology. Thomas J. Misa's groundbreaking history shows how Minnesota recognized and embraced the coming information age through its leading-edge companies, its workforce, and its prominent institutions. Digital State reveals the inner workings of the birth of the digital age in Minnesota and what we can learn from this era of sustained innovation."--$$cProvided by publisher.
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