The innovators is the story of the people who created the computer and the Internet. Isaacson begins with Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron's daughter, who pioneered computer programming in the 1840s. He explores the fascinating personalities that created our current digital revolution, such as Vannevar Bush, Alan Turing, John von Neumann, J.C.R. Licklider, Doug Engelbart, Robert Noyce, Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs, Tim Berners-Lee, and Larry Page. This is the story of how their minds worked and what made them so inventive.
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ISBN:9781476708690 (hardcover)
Physical Description:print viii, 542 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Publisher:New York : Simon & Schuster, 2014.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Introduction -- Ada, Countess of Lovelace -- The computer -- Programming -- The transistor -- The microchip -- Video games -- The internet -- The personal computer -- Software -- Online -- The web -- Ada forever.
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