The Computer Boys Take Over: Computers, Programmers, and the Politics of Technical Expertise (History of Computing)

This is a book about the computer revolution of the mid-twentieth century and the people who made it possible.

Unlike most histories of computing, it is not a book about machines, inventors, or entrepreneurs.

Instead, it tells the story of the vast but largely anonymous legions of computer specialists—programmers, systems analysts, and other software developers—who transformed the electronic computer from a scientific curiosity into the defining technology of the modern era.