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Author: George Dyson
Publisher: Pantheon
ISBN: 0307907066
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In Turing’s Cathedral, George Dyson focuses on a small group of men and women, led by John von Neumann at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, who built one of the first computers to realize Alan Turing’s vision of ...

Author: George Dyson
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0718194500
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' In Turing's Cathedral, George Dyson vividly re-creates the intense experimentation, incredible mathematical insight and pure creative genius that led to the dawn of the digital universe, uncovering a wealth of new material to bring a ...

Author: George Dyson
Publisher: Pantheon
ISBN: 0375422773
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Documents the innovations of a group of eccentric geniuses who developed computer code in the mid-20th century as part of mathematician Alan Turin's theoretical universal machine idea, exploring how their ideas led to such developments as ...

Author: Tony Hey
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316123227
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And this is just the beginning. In this book, Tony Hey and Gyuri Pápay lead us on a journey from the early days of computers in the 1930s to the cutting-edge research of the present day that will shape computing in the coming decades.

Author: John Markoff
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062266705
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In Machines of Loving Grace, New York Times reporter John Markoff, the first reporter to cover the World Wide Web, offers a sweeping history of the complicated and evolving relationship between humans and computers.

Author: Sean Carroll
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
ISBN: 1780746075
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Destined to sit alongside the works of our greatest thinkers, from Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan to Daniel Dennett and E. O. Wilson, this book shows that while our lives may be forever dwarfed by the immensity of the universe, they can be ...

Author: Eric Kandel
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1588369307
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Kandel tells the story of how these pioneers—Freud, Schnitzler, Klimt, Kokoschka, and Schiele—inspired by the Vienna School of Medicine, in turn influenced the founders of the Vienna School of Art History to ask pivotal questions such ...

Author: George Dyson
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805072846
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A brilliant combination of history and personal recollections documents the incredible story of a wild idea--a spacecraft powered by hydrogen bombs--and brings to life an episode in U.S. scientific research that brought together a vast ...

Author: George B. Dyson
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0465046975
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Darwin Among the Machines tells the story of humankind’s journey into the digital wilderness.

Author: Chris Bernhardt
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262034549
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Turing's fascinating and remarkable theory, which now forms the basis of computer science, explained for the general reader.