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David Hillel Gelernter (born March 5, 1955) is an American computer scientist, artist, and writer. He is a professor of computer science at Yale University . Gelernter is known for contributions to parallel computation in the 1980s, and for books on topics such as computed worlds ( Mirror Worlds ).
The first book containing specific instructions about how to program a computer may have been Maurice Wilkes, David Wheeler, and Stanley Gill's Preparation of Programs for an Electronic Digital Computer (1951). The book offered a selection of common subroutines for handling basic operations on the EDSAC, one of the world’s first stored ...
CARDIAC (CARDboard Illustrative Aid to Computation) is a learning aid developed by David Hagelbarger and Saul Fingerman for Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1968 to teach high school students how computers work. The kit consists of an instruction manual and a die-cut cardboard "computer". The computer "operates" by means of pencil and sliding cards.
David James Brown (born 1957) is an American computer scientist. He was one of a small group at Stanford University that helped to develop the computer system that later became the foundational technology of Sun Microsystems , and was a co-founder of Silicon Graphics .
Dave Thomas speaking at the Pasadena Rails Studio. Dave Thomas (born 1960) is a computer programmer, author and editor. He has written about Ruby and together with Andy Hunt, he co-authored The Pragmatic Programmer and runs The Pragmatic Bookshelf publishing company.
David H. Ahl (born May 17, 1939) is an American author who is the founder of Creative Computing magazine. He is also the author of many how-to books , including BASIC Computer Games , the first computer book to sell more than a million copies.
His most recent book is with Andrew Waterman on the open architecture RISC-V: The RISC-V Reader: An Open Architecture Atlas (1st Edition) (ISBN 978-0999249109). His articles include: Patterson, David; Ditzel, David (1980). "The Case for the Reduced Instruction Set Computer" (PDF). ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News. 8 (6): 5–33.
David Auerbach is an American writer and former Microsoft and Google software engineer. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] He has written on a variety of subjects, including social issues and popular culture, the environment, computer games, philosophy and literature.