| Description |
xiv, 374 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [359]-361. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
The Conceptualizers -- Charles Babbage: Grandfather of the Computer Pioneers -- Alan Turing: Can a Machine Be Made to Think? -- John von Neumann: A Name Synonymous with Computers -- Claude Shannon: Of Boolean Logic, Mice, Juggling, and Unicycles -- The Early Inventors -- Konrad Zuse: A Little-Known Computer Builder -- John V. Atanasoff: The Inventor of the Digital Computer-According to the Law! -- John V. Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert: The Men Who Built ENIAC -- Howard Aiken: Builder of the First American Electronic Brain -- Jay W. Forrester: The Core Memory Man -- The Early Entrepreneurs -- Thomas J. Watson, Sr.: Founder of IBM -- William Norris: Founder of Data Control Corporation -- H. Ross Perot: Computerizing the World -- Making the Computer Smaller and More Powerful -- William Shockley: Co-Inventor of the Transistor -- Robert Noyce: The Mayor of Silicon Valley -- Jack Kilby: Co-Inventor of the Integrated Circuit -- Marcian E. (Ted) Hoff: Inventor of the "Computer on a Chip" -- The Hardware Designers -- Gene Amdahl: Mainframe Designer Par Excellence -- Seymour Cray: The Hermit of Cippewa Falls and His "Simple, Dumb Things" -- Gordon Bell: Launching the Age of the Minicomputer -- The Software Specialists -- Grace Murray Hopper: Bugs, Compilers, and COBOL -- John Backus: The Man Who Invented FORTRAN -- John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz: Handling the Computer-BASICally -- Gary Kildall: Making It Easier to Use a Computer-with CP/M -- William Gates: Engine of the Small Computer Revolution -- Dennis Ritchie and Kenneth Thompson: Creators of UNIX -- Daniel Bricklin: The Spreadsheet Pioneer Who Invented VisiCalc -- Bringing the Computer to the Masses -- Nolan Bushnell: Captain Pong, Leader of the Video Game Revolution -- Steven Jobs: Cofounder of Apple -- Adam Osborne: He Made the Computer Portable -- William Millard: The Man Who Build ComputerLand -- Computer Science Pioneer -- Donald Knuth: The Preeminent Scholar of Computer Science. |
| Subject |
Computer engineers -- Biography.
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Computers -- History.
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Computer industry -- History.
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Industrialists -- Biography.
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| Indexed Term |
Computers Designers - Biographies - Collections |
| ISBN |
0262192624 |
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