The Innovators

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542 pages

English language

Published Oct. 7, 2014

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978-1-4767-0869-0
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The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution is an overview of the history of computer science and the Digital Revolution. It was written by Walter Isaacson, and published in 2014 by Simon & Schuster. The book summarizes the contributions of several innovators who have made pivotal breakthroughs in computer technology and its applications—from the world's first computer programmer, Ada Lovelace, and Alan Turing's work in artificial intelligence, through the Information Age of the present.

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Wow. This book is a narrative version of my computer engineering degree. It is pretty long book, but I soaked up every chapter. It brought me back to my childhood of discovering electronics, my first computer in 1984 (a TI 99/4a), first reading Ada Loveless, programming in BASIC, BBSing, being part of the early Internet in the 90s, and many more geeky memories. This book should be required reading for anyone in technology.

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