Screen LibraryThe innovators : how a group of inventors, hackers, geniuses, and geeks created the digital revolution /
The Innovators is Walter Isaacson's revealing story of the people who created the computer and the Internet. It is also a history of the digital revolution and a guide to how innovation really happens. What were the talents that allowed certain inventors and entrepreneurs to turn their visionar...
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Simon & Schuster,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: | 2014. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. |
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| Summary: |
The Innovators is Walter Isaacson's revealing story of the people who created the computer and the Internet. It is also a history of the digital revolution and a guide to how innovation really happens. What were the talents that allowed certain inventors and entrepreneurs to turn their visionary ideas into disruptive realities? What led to their creative leaps? Why did some succeed and others fail? 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 ... |
| Carrier Form: | viii, 542 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 493-523) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781476708690 (hardcover) : 147670869X (hardcover) 9781476708706 (trade paper) 1476708703 (trade paper) |
| Index Number: | QA76 |
| CLC: | K816.16 |
| Call Number: | K816.16/I739 |
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Illustrated timeline -- 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. |