The Untold Story of Everything Digital: Bright Boys, Revisited

ISBN-13: 9780367220075 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 182 str.

Thomas Green

Opis

Although Bright Boys covers the years 1938 to 1958, the critical time period in making Information Technology’s transformative tool—the electronic digital computer (Whirlwind)—was 1945 to 1949. With the 70th anniversary of the making of that tool coming up in 2019, the new edition of Bright Boys will celebrate that singular event.

Spis treści

Foreword by Jay W. Forrester. Introduction: If the Barta Building Could Speak. 1. Terror at the Pentagon Taxi Stand. 2. Jay's Dilemma. 3. The Whistle Factory. 4. The Buildout. 5. 1949. 6. Island in the Stream. 7. Into the Great Wide Open. 8. Voices in the Machine.