Biomedical computing : digitizing life in the United States / Joseph November.

Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.

xvi, 344 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Putting molecular biology and medical diagnosis into metal brains : operations research and the origins of biomedical computing -- Building tomorrow's biomedicine : the National Institutes of Health's early mission to computerize biology and medicine -- The LINC revolution : the forgotten biomedical origins of personal computing -- A new way of life : computing in the lab, in the clinic, and at the foundation -- Martians, experts, and universitas : biomedical computing at Stanford University, 1960-1966.