The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks created the Digital Revolution
Maker and role
Walter Isaacson, Author
Production date
2014
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Accession number
PUB-2022-655
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Description
."Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, The Innovators is Walter Isaacson's revealing story of the people who created the computer and the Internet. It is destined to be the standard history of the digital revolution and an indispensable 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?
In his masterly saga, 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, Tim Berners-Lee, and Larry Page. This is the story of how their minds worked and what made them so inventive. It's also a narrative of how their ability to collaborate and master the art of teamwork made them even more creative. For an era that seeks to foster innovation, creativity, and teamwork, The Innovators shows how they happen" - Back Cover
Contents
Illustrated timeline -- Ada, Countess of Lovelace -- The computer -- Programming -- The transistor -- The microchip -- Video games -- The Internet -- The personal computer -- Software -- Online -- The Web -- Ada forever-
Includes bibliographical references and index.
In his masterly saga, 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, Tim Berners-Lee, and Larry Page. This is the story of how their minds worked and what made them so inventive. It's also a narrative of how their ability to collaborate and master the art of teamwork made them even more creative. For an era that seeks to foster innovation, creativity, and teamwork, The Innovators shows how they happen" - Back Cover
Contents
Illustrated timeline -- Ada, Countess of Lovelace -- The computer -- Programming -- The transistor -- The microchip -- Video games -- The Internet -- The personal computer -- Software -- Online -- The Web -- Ada forever-
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Physical description
542 pages :illustrations, portraits ;24 cm,
ISBN/ISSN
9781471138799
1471138798
147670869X
9781476708690
1471138976
9781471138973
1476708703
9781476708706
1471138798
147670869X
9781476708690
1471138976
9781471138973
1476708703
9781476708706
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Walter Isaacson. 2014. The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks created the Digital Revolution, PUB-2022-655. Walsh Memorial Library, The Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT).
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