The innovators :

Isaacson, Walter,

The innovators : how a group of hackers, geniuses, and geeks created the digital revolution / Walter Isaacson. - London : Simon & Schuster, 2015. - viii, 542 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm

Originally published: 2014.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

What talents allowed certain inventors and entrepreneurs to turn their disruptive ideas into realities? What led to their creative leaps? Why did some succeed and others fail? In his exciting saga, Walter Isaacson begins with Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron's daughter, who pioneered computer programming in the 1840s. He then 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.

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Computer science--History.
Internet--History.
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