Turing's Cathedral (Storpocket)
avGeorge Dyson
ISBN: 9780141015903 - UTGIVEN: 201302George Dyson's fascinating account of the early years of computers: "Turing's Cathedral" is the story behind how the PC, ipod, smartphone and almost every aspect of modern life came into being. In 1945 a small group of brilliant engineers and mathematicians gathered at the Institute for Advanced Stu[...]
Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe (Inbunden)
avGeorge Dyson
ISBN: 9780375422775 - UTGIVEN: 201203"It is possible to invent a single machine which can be used to compute any computable sequence," twenty-four-year-old Alan Turing announced in 1936. 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 Prince[...]
Turing's Cathedral (Inbunden)
avGeorge Dyson
ISBN: 9780713997507 - UTGIVEN: 201203How did computers take over the world? In late 1945, a small group of brilliant engineers and mathematicians gathered at the newly created Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Their ostensible goal was to build a computer which would be instrumental in the US government's race to c[...]
Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe (Häftad)
avGeorge Dyson
ISBN: 9781400075997 - UTGIVEN: 201212A "Wall Street Journal" Best Business Book of 2012
A "Kirkus Reviews" Best Book of 2012
In 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[...]
Sir George Dyson (Inbunden)
avPaul Spicer
ISBN: 9781843839033 - UTGIVEN: 2014-05George Dyson (1883-1964) was a highly influential composer, educator and administrator, whose work touched the lives of millions. Yet today, apart from his Canterbury Pilgrims and two sets of canticles for Choral Evensong, his music is little known. In this comprehensive and detailed study, based no[...]
Darwin Among the Machines (Häftad)
avGeorge B Dyson
ISBN: 9780465031627 - UTGIVEN: 201209As timely now as it was when it was first published in 1997, "Darwin Among the Machines" tells the story of humankind's long journey into the digital age. Historian of technology George Dyson traces the course of the information revolution, illuminating the lives and work of visionaries--from Thomas[...]
