TY - CHAP
T1 - Introduction
AU - Corry, Leo
AU - Leviathan, Raya
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - In the early years of the State of Israel, at the dawn of the age of the electronic computer, a state-of-the-art automatic digital machine was built in the small town of Rehovot. This was the WEIZAC computer. This book tells the story of the WEIZAC project and of its immediate contribution to creating a computer-savvy community of users within the scientific and industrial realms in Israel, as well as in preparing the road for adopting the computer as a main tool in government and security agencies.
AB - In the early years of the State of Israel, at the dawn of the age of the electronic computer, a state-of-the-art automatic digital machine was built in the small town of Rehovot. This was the WEIZAC computer. This book tells the story of the WEIZAC project and of its immediate contribution to creating a computer-savvy community of users within the scientific and industrial realms in Israel, as well as in preparing the road for adopting the computer as a main tool in government and security agencies.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85102005221&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-25734-7_1
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-25734-7_1
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AN - SCOPUS:85102005221
T3 - SpringerBriefs in History of Science and Technology
SP - 1
EP - 4
BT - SpringerBriefs in History of Science and Technology
PB - Springer Nature
ER -