Measuring information
A short but dense classic offers some solid background.
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bobdc.blogBob DuCharme's weblog, mostly on technology for representing and linking information. |
April 5, 2006
February 8, 2006
Pulling data out of computers in the mid-twentieth and early twenty-first centuries
Report generation in the 1950s and the future of RDF.
January 17, 2006
Bill Kent
Bill Kent combined timeless abstract ideas about data modeling with practical advice, and always with a sense of humor.
January 6, 2006
Selling IBM mainframes in 1979--the colors! The outfits!
A machine with half a meg of memory cost $62,500... but it supported multiple concurrent users.
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December 6, 2005
25 years of database history (starting in 1955)
A 1981 article in IBM's Journal of Research and Development gave me a much better perspective on how database systems got where they are.
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