Computing Legacies

A media history of simulation that contextualizes our digital heritage and the history of computing. In In tracing our digital heritage, <Computing Legacies< elucidates inflection points where quantitative data becomes tractable for qualitative evaluations: modeling epidemics for scientific study or entertainment, emulating older devices, turning numerical calculations into music, conducting espionage in virtual worlds, and gamifying higher education. Simulation, this book demonstrates, is pivotal not only to high-tech research or to archives, museums, and the preservation of digital culture, but also to our understanding of what it is to live and work under the technical conditions of computing.

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Peter Krapp is Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Irvine, where he is also affiliated with the departments of English, Music, and Informatics.

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"Krapp explores how simulation merges with a variety of institutions and media, including games, music, museums, and universities"--