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The Man who Invented the Computer

2010 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2010
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Book Synopsis The Man who Invented the Computer by : Jane Smiley

Download or read book The Man who Invented the Computer written by Jane Smiley. This book was released on 2010. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces physics professor John Vincent Atanasoff's role in the invention of the computer, describing his innovative construction of an unpatented electronic device that eased the lives of burdened scientists by performing calculations using binary numbers.

The Man Who Invented the Computer

2010-10-19 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2010-10-19
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Book Synopsis The Man Who Invented the Computer by : Jane Smiley

Download or read book The Man Who Invented the Computer written by Jane Smiley. This book was released on 2010-10-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of our most acclaimed novelists, a David-and-Goliath biography for the digital age. One night in the late 1930s, in a bar on the Illinois–Iowa border, John Vincent Atanasoff, a professor of physics at Iowa State University, after a frustrating day performing tedious mathematical calculations in his lab, hit on the idea that the binary number system and electronic switches, com­bined with an array of capacitors on a moving drum to serve as memory, could yield a computing machine that would make his life and the lives of other similarly burdened scientists easier. Then he went back and built the machine. It worked. The whole world changed. Why don’t we know the name of John Atanasoff as well as we know those of Alan Turing and John von Neumann? Because he never patented the device, and because the developers of the far-better-known ENIAC almost certainly stole critical ideas from him. But in 1973 a court declared that the patent on that Sperry Rand device was invalid, opening the intellectual property gates to the computer revolution. Jane Smiley tells the quintessentially American story of the child of immigrants John Atanasoff with technical clarity and narrative drive, making the race to develop digital computing as gripping as a real-life techno-thriller.

Charles Babbage

1985 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 1985
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 779/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Charles Babbage by : Anthony Hyman

Download or read book Charles Babbage written by Anthony Hyman. This book was released on 1985. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of inventor and mathematician Charles Babbage.

Moo

2011-08-24 Fiction
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Release : 2011-08-24
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 298/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Moo by : Jane Smiley

Download or read book Moo written by Jane Smiley. This book was released on 2011-08-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres comes “an uproariously funny and at the same time hauntingly melancholy portrait of a college community in the Midwest" (The New York Times). In this darkly satirical send-up of academia and the Midwest, we are introduced to Moo University, a distinguished institution devoted to the study of agriculture. Amid cow pastures and waving fields of grain, Moo’s campus churns with devious plots, mischievous intrigue, lusty liaisons, and academic one-upmanship, Chairman X of the Horticulture Department harbors a secret fantasy to kill the dean; Mrs. Walker, the provost's right hand and campus information queen, knows where all the bodies are buried; Timothy Monahan, associate professor of English, advocates eavesdropping for his creative writing assignments; and Bob Carlson, a sophomore, feeds and maintains his only friend: a hog named Earl Butz. Wonderfully written and masterfully plotted, Moo gives us a wickedly funny slice of life.

Alan Turing: The Enigma

2014-11-10 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2014-11-10
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Book Synopsis Alan Turing: The Enigma by : Andrew Hodges

Download or read book Alan Turing: The Enigma written by Andrew Hodges. This book was released on 2014-11-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The official book behind the Academy Award-winning film The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley It is only a slight exaggeration to say that the British mathematician Alan Turing (1912–1954) saved the Allies from the Nazis, invented the computer and artificial intelligence, and anticipated gay liberation by decades—all before his suicide at age forty-one. This New York Times bestselling biography of the founder of computer science, with a new preface by the author that addresses Turing’s royal pardon in 2013, is the definitive account of an extraordinary mind and life. Capturing both the inner and outer drama of Turing’s life, Andrew Hodges tells how Turing’s revolutionary idea of 1936—the concept of a universal machine—laid the foundation for the modern computer and how Turing brought the idea to practical realization in 1945 with his electronic design. The book also tells how this work was directly related to Turing’s leading role in breaking the German Enigma ciphers during World War II, a scientific triumph that was critical to Allied victory in the Atlantic. At the same time, this is the tragic account of a man who, despite his wartime service, was eventually arrested, stripped of his security clearance, and forced to undergo a humiliating treatment program—all for trying to live honestly in a society that defined homosexuality as a crime. The inspiration for a major motion picture starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley, Alan Turing: The Enigma is a gripping story of mathematics, computers, cryptography, and homosexual persecution.

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