The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
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"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. . . . Isaacson begins with Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron's daughter, who pioneered computer programming in the 1840s, [then] explores the fascinating personalities that created our current digital revolution, such as Vannevar Bush, Alan Turing, John von Neumann, J.
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Book Information
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster. |
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| Publish Date: | 10/06/2015 |
| Pages: | 560 |
| ISBN-13: | 9781476708706 |
| ISBN-10: | 1476708703 |
| Language: | Eng |
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