Computer or Social Work Career Development

Computer: A History of the Information Machine

Author: Martin Campbell Kelly

Computer: A History of the Information Machine, Second Edition traces the story of the computer, and shows how business and government were the first to explore its unlimited, information-processing potential. Old-fashioned entrepreneurship combined with scientific know-how inspired now famous computer engineers to create the technology that became IBM. Wartime needs drove the giant ENIAC, the first fully electronic computer. Later, the PC enabled modes of computing that liberated people from room-sized, mainframe computers. This second edition now extends beyond the development of Microsoft Windows and the Internet, to include open source operating systems like Linux, and the rise again and fall and potential rise of the dot.com industries.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments	ix
	Introduction to the Second Edition	xi
	Introduction to the First Edition	xiii
Part 1	Before the Computer
1	When Computers Were People	3
2	The Mechanical Office	23
3	Babbage's Dream Comes True	45
Part 2	Creating the Computer
4	Inventing the Computer	69
5	The Computer Becomes a Business Machine	93
6	The Maturing of the Mainframe: The Rise and Fall of IBM	117
Part 3	Innovation and Expansion
7	Real Time: Reaping the Whirlwind	141
8	Software	163
9	New Modes of Computing	185
Part 4	Getting Personal
10	The Shaping of the Personal Computer	207
11	Broadening the Appeal	231
12	From the World Brain to the World Wide Web	255
	Notes	281
	Bibliography	301
	Index	315

Interesting book:

Social Work Career Development: A Handbook for Job Hunting and Career Planning, 2nd Edition

Author: Carol Nesslein Doelling

Social work is a complex profession with multiple specialties and work settings. Very few massmarket career publications or web sites address in detail the career management and job search needs of social workers across job functions, fields, or degree levels.
Social Work Career Development is the most comprehensive book of its kind and a superb reference for any social worker. Updated to respond to changes in the job market and the profession since the best-selling first edition, this unique handbook addresses in detail the career management and job search needs of social workers, including self-assessment exercises, strategies for researching the job market and networking, details on resumes, curriculum vitae, and portfolios; tips on selecting master's and doctoral programs, and much more.
Social Work Career Development is a must for practitioners, managers, and faculty. It may be the most valuable career planning tool available to students and should be in every college career center and library.

SPECIAL FEATURES:

• Questions to facilitate research regarding the market in sub-fields of social work
• Interview questions by function for practice
• Pitfalls and illegal questions in interviews
• Licensure and certification for social work and related specialties
• Detailed vignettes of job searches at the BSW, MSW, and PhD levels