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The untold story of everything digital : Bright boys revisited / by Thomas Green.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Green, Thomas J., author.
- Standardized Title:
- Bright boys
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Air defenses--United States--History.
- Air defenses.
- Electronics in military engineering--United States--History.
- Electronics in military engineering.
- Electronic digital computers--History.
- Electronic digital computers.
- History.
- Information technology--History.
- Information technology.
- Computer engineers--United States--Biography.
- Computer engineers.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxv, 182 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Special, anniversary edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Boca Raton : CRC Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- "The Untold Story of Everything Digital: Bright Boys, Revisited celebrates the 70th anniversary (1949-2019) of the world "going digital" for the very first time-real-time digital computing's genesis story. That genesis story is taken from the 2010 edition of Bright Boys: The Making of Information Technology-1938-1958, and substantially expanded upon for this special, anniversary edition. Please join us for the incredible adventure that is The Untold Story of Everything Digital, when a band of misfit engineers, led by MIT's Jay Forrester and Bob Everett, birthed the digital revolution. The bright boys were the first to imagine an electronic landscape of computing machines and digital networks, and the first to blaze its high-tech trails"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Terror at the Pentagon Taxi Stand p. 1
- Chapter 2 Jay's Dilemma p. 11
- Chapter 3 The Whistle Factory p. 23
- Chapter 4 The Buildout p. 41
- Chapter 5 1949 p. 67
- Chapter 6 Island in the Stream p. 87
- Chapter 7 Into the Great Wide Open p. 115
- Chapter 8 Voices in the Machine p. 147.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Green, Thomas, The untold story of everything digital
- ISBN:
- 9780367220075
- 0367220075
- 9780367355609
- 0367355604
- OCLC:
- 1108789034
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