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Museum Guide (2nd edition) HNF Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum (ed.) This museum guide is intended to help you find you bearings on your journey through time and space. It will guide you through the realms of information technology and its history and help you to familiarise yourself with the world of electronic communications in order to be better able to assess its opportunities and risks.	180 pages, bound ISBN: 3-9805757-2-1 5,- Euro
The Making of the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum Publisher Prof. L. Thürmer and Prof. G. Diel, Berlin This project journal documents the decelopment of the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum. The original idea in 1984 to generate a company-related museum with attention to the personal fate of the founder as well as the development of his company produced something completely new: a museum and an events forum, a MuseumsForum. The place, contents of the institution and biography of the company´s founder as someone who understood and supported education and continuing education as an absolute need, are bound together in this tribute to Heinz Nixdorf.	146 pages, bound ISBN: 3-000-01694-5 5,- Euro
Heinz Nixdorf - Pictures of al life No name is more strongly associated with the establishment of the computer industry in Germany than that of Heinz Nixdorf. In 1952, he founded a company which under his management rose to become one of Europe´s biggest computer manufactures in an industry already dominated by large conglomerates. His biography exemplifies the drive and innovative ability of the entrepreneurs who played a significant role in what came to be known as the German economic miracle. Nixdorf Computer AG was taken over by Siemens and no longer exists. But the ideas which made Heinz Nixdorf an outstanding social and innovative entrepreneur live on.	32 pages, paperback 1,- Euro
Computer.Medicine Accompanying publication on the special exhibition Computer.Medicine Medicine without computers and high technology? It is nowadays imposible to imagine prevention, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation without high-tech support. Its indispensability in the field of medicine is illustrated by highly complex microsurgical procedures in diagnosis and a whole host of other applications besides. The special exhibition Computer.Medicine demonstrates the use of state-of-the-art computer technology in present-day medicine on a scale never witnessed before. Over 100 spectactular exhibits and numerous media stations are waiting to be explored, while 35 interactive exhibits invite hand-on testing by visitors.	360 pages, paperback Schöningh-Verlag ISBN 13: 978-3-506-75717-3 ISBN 10: 3-506-75717-2 9,80 Euro
Friedrich L. Bauer: Origins and Foundations of Computing In Cooperation with Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum The book examines how intellectual developments in logic and mathematics were gradually matched by technical solutions in first mechanics and then electronics, and how the resulting machines found application in engineering, science and business. The author was among the pioneers of computing science, and he offers a personal and distinctive view of the key developments and personalities in this engaging history. The book will be of interest to computer scientists and electronic engineers, and to readers who are fascinated by the history of technology. Orders:	142 pages, 223 images, bound, ISBN: 978-3-642-02991-2 35,26 Euro

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