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"The best book I've read on the origins of the computer. . . not only learned, but brilliantly and surprisingly idiosyncratic and strange."
--The Boston Globe
George Dyson is a science historian as well as a boat designer and builder. He is also the author of Baidarka, Project Orion, and Darwin Among the Machines.
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A Wall Street Journal Best Business Book of 2012A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2012In this revealing account of how the digital universe exploded in the aftermath of World War II, George Dyson illuminates the nature of digital computers, the lives of those who brought them into existence, and how code took over the world. In the 1940s and 50s, a small group of men and womenled by John von Neumanngathered in Princeton, New Jersey, to begin building one of the first computers to realize Alan Turings vision of a Universal Machine. The codes unleashed within this embryonic, 5-kilobyte universeless memory than is allocated to displaying a single icon on a computer screen todaybroke the distinction between numbers that mean things and numbers that do things, and our universe would never be the same. Turings Cathedral is the story of how the most constructive and most destructive of twentieth-century inventionsthe digital computer and the hydrogen bombemerged at the same time. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781400075997
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