Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe

Name: Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe
Brand: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
SKU: 9781400075997-V
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By George Dyson

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A 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, and how code took over the world. In the 1940s and ‘50s, a small group of men and women—led by John von Neumann—gathered in Princeton, New Jersey, to begin building one of the first computers to realize Alan Turing’s vision of a Universal Machine. The codes unleashed within this embryonic, 5-kilobyte universe—less memory than is allocated to displaying a single icon on a computer screen today—broke the distinction between numbers that mean things and numbers that do things, and our universe would never be the same. Turing’s Cathedral is the story of how the most constructive and most destructive of twentieth-century inventions—the digital computer and the hydrogen bomb—emerged at the same time.

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Binding:: Paperback
Edition:: illustrated
Number of Pages:: 464
Release Date:: 2012-12-11
Publication Date:: 2012-12-11
Publisher:: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Languages:: Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:: 1400075998
ISBN13:: 9781400075997
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 431 g
Height:: 20 cm
Width:: 13.3 cm
Thickness:: 2.6 cm

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