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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1400075998
ISBN-13
9781400075997
eBay Product ID (ePID)
114256408
Product Key Features
Book Title
Turing's Cathedral : the Origins of the Digital Universe
Number of Pages
464 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Computer Science, History, Logic, Science & Technology
Publication Year
2012
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Mathematics, Computers, Science, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
13.2 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.2 in
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Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2013-370011
Reviews
"An expansive narrative . . . The book brims with unexpected detail. Maybe the bomb (or the specter of the machines) affected everyone. Gödel believed his food was poisoned and starved himself to death. Turing, persecuted for his homosexuality, actually did die of poisoning, perhaps by biting a cyanide-laced apple. Less well known is the tragic end of Klári von Neumann, a depressive Jewish socialite who became one of the world's first machine-language programmers and enacted the grandest suicide of the lot, downing cocktails before walking into the Pacific surf in a black dress with fur cuffs. Dyson's well made sentences are worthy of these operatic contradictions . . . A groundbreaking history of the Princeton computer." -William Poundstone, The New York Times Book Review "Dyson combines his prodigious skills as a historian and writer with his privileged position within the [Institute for Advanced Study's] history to present a vivid account of the digital computer project . . . A powerful story of the ethical dimension of scientific research, a story whose lessons apply as much today in an era of expanded military R&D as they did in the ENIAC and MANIAC era . . . Dyson closes the book with three absolutely, hair-on-neck-standing-up inspiring chapters on the present and future, a bracing reminder of the distance we have come on some of the paths envisioned by von Neumann, Turing, et al." -Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing "A fascinating combination of the technical and human stories behind the computing breakthroughs of the 1940s and '50s . . . It demonstrates that the power of human thought often precedes determination and creativity in the birth of world-changing technology . . . An important work." -Richard DiDio, Philadelphia Inquirer "Dyson's book is not only learned, but brilliantly and surprisingly idiosyncratic and strange." -Josh Rothman, Braniac blog, Boston Globe "Beyond the importance of this book as a contribution to the history of science, as a generalist I was struck by Dyson's eye and ear for the delightfully entertaining detail . . . Turing's Cathedral is suffused . . . with moments of insight, quirk and hilarity rendering it more than just a great book about science. It's a great book, period." -Douglas Bell, The Globe and Mail "The greatest strength of Turing's Cathedral lies in its luscious wealth of anecdotal details about von Neumann and his band of scientific geniuses at IAS. Dyson himself is the son of Freeman Dyson, one of America's greatest twentieth-century physicists and an IAS member from 1948 onward, and so Turing's Cathedral is, in part, Dyson's attempt to make both moral and intellectual sense of his father's glittering and yet severely compromised scientific generation." -Andrew Keen, B&N Review "A mesmerizing tale brilliantly told . . . . The use of wonderful quotes and pithy sketches of the brilliant cast of characters further enriches the text . . . . Meticulously researched and packed with not just technological details, but sociopolitical and cultural details as well-the definitive history of the computer." - Kirkus (starred review) "The most powerful technology of the last century was not the atomic bomb, but software-and both were invented by the same folks. Even as they were inventing it, the original geniuses imagined almost everything software has become since. At long last, George Dyson delivers the untold story of software's creation. It is an amazing tale brilliantly deciphered." -Kevin Kelly, cofounder of WIRED magazine, author of What Technology Wants "It is a joy to read George Dyson's revelation of the very human story of the invention of the electronic computer, which he tells with wit, authority, and insight. Read Turing's Cathedral as both the origin story of our digital universe and as a perceptive glimpse into its future." -W. Daniel Hillis, inventor of The Connection Machine, author of The Pattern on the Stone From the Hardcover edition., "Dyson combines his prodigious skills as a historian and writer with his privileged position within the [Institute for Advanced Study's] history to present a vivid account of the digital computer project . . . A powerful story of the ethical dimension of scientific research, a story whose lessons apply as much today in an era of expanded military R&D as they did in the ENIAC and MANIAC era . . . Dyson closes the book with three absolutely, hair-on-neck-standing-up inspiring chapters on the present and future, a bracing reminder of the distance we have come on some of the paths envisioned by von Neumann, Turing, et al." -Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing "A fascinating combination of the technical and human stories behind the computing breakthroughs of the 1940s and '50s . . . It demonstrates that the power of human thought often precedes determination and creativity in the birth of world-changing technology . . . An important work." -Richard DiDio, Philadelphia Inquirer "Dyson's book is not only learned, but brilliantly and surprisingly idiosyncratic and strange." -Josh Rothman, Braniac blog, Boston Globe "Beyond the importance of this book as a contribution to the history of science, as a generalist I was struck by Dyson's eye and ear for the delightfully entertaining detail . . . Turing's Cathedral is suffused . . . with moments of insight, quirk and hilarity rendering it more than just a great book about science. It's a great book, period." -Douglas Bell, The Globe and Mail "The greatest strength of Turing's Cathedral lies in its luscious wealth of anecdotal details about von Neumann and his band of scientific geniuses at IAS. Dyson himself is the son of Freeman Dyson, one of America's greatest twentieth-century physicists and an IAS member from 1948 onward, and so Turing's Cathedral is, in part, Dyson's attempt to make both moral and intellectual sense of his father's glittering and yet severely compromised scientific generation." -Andrew Keen, B&N Review "A mesmerizing tale brilliantly told . . . . The use of wonderful quotes and pithy sketches of the brilliant cast of characters further enriches the text . . . . Meticulously researched and packed with not just technological details, but sociopolitical and cultural details as well-the definitive history of the computer." - Kirkus (starred review) "The most powerful technology of the last century was not the atomic bomb, but software-and both were invented by the same folks. Even as they were inventing it, the original geniuses imagined almost everything software has become since. At long last, George Dyson delivers the untold story of software's creation. It is an amazing tale brilliantly deciphered." -Kevin Kelly, cofounder of WIRED magazine, author of What Technology Wants "It is a joy to read George Dyson's revelation of the very human story of the invention of the electronic computer, which he tells with wit, authority, and insight. Read Turing's Cathedral as both the origin story of our digital universe and as a perceptive glimpse into its future." -W. Daniel Hillis, inventor of The Connection Machine, author of The Pattern on the Stone, "The best book I've read on the origins of the computer. . . not only learned, but brilliantly and surprisingly idiosyncratic and strange." - The Boston Globe "A groundbreaking history . . . the book brims with unexpected detail." - The New York Times Book Review "A technical, philosophical and sometimes personal account . . . wide-ranging and lyrical." - The Economist "The story of the [von Neumann] computer project and how it begat today's digital universe has been told before, but no one has told it with such precision and narrative sweep." - The New York Review of Books "A fascinating combination of the technical and human stories behind the computing breakthroughs of the 1940s and '50s. . . . An important work." - The Philadelphia Inquirer "Vivid. . . . [A] detailed yet readable chronicle of the birth of modern computing. . . . Dyson's book is one small step toward reminding us that behind all the touch screens, artificial intelligences and cerebellum implants lies not sorcery but a machine from the middle of New Jersey." - The Oregonian "Well-told. . . . Dyson tells his story as a sort of intellectual caper film. He gathers his cast of characters . . . and tracks their journey to Princeton. When they converge, it's great fun, despite postwar food rationing and housing shortages. . . . Dyson is rightly as concerned with the machine's inventors as with the technology itself." - The Wall Street Journal "Charming. . . . Creation stories are always worth telling, especially when they center on the birth of world-changing powers. . . . Dyson creatively recounts the curious Faustian bargain that permitted mathematicians to experiment with building more powerful computers, which in turn helped others build more destructive bombs." - San Francisco Chronicle "The story of the invention of computers has been told many times, from many different points of view, but seldom as authoritatively and with as much detail as George Dyson has done. . . . Turing's Cathedral will enthrall computer enthusiasts. . . . Employing letters, memoirs, oral histories and personal interviews, Dyson organizes his book around the personalities of the men (and occasional woman) behind the computer, and does a splendid job in bringing them to life." - The Seattle Times "A powerful story of the ethical dimension of scientific research, a story whose lessons apply as much today in an era of expanded military R&D as they did in the ENIAC and MANIAC era . . . Dyson closes the book with three absolutely, hair-on-neck-standing-up inspiring chapters on the present and future, a bracing reminder of the distance we have come on some of the paths envisioned by von Neumann, Turing, et al." -Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing "No other book about the beginnings of the digital age . . . makes the connections this one does between the lessons of the computer's origin and the possible paths of its future." - The Guardian "If you want to be mentally prepared for the next revolution in computing, Dyson's book is a must read. But it is also a must read if you just want a ripping yarn about the way real scientists (at least, some real scientists) work and think." - Literary Review "More than just a great book about science. It's a great book, period." - The Globe and Mail
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
004.09
Synopsis
A Wall Street Journal Best Business Book of 2012 A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2012 In this revealing account of how the digital universe exploded in the aftermath of World War II, George Dyson illuminates the nature of digital computers, the lives of those who brought them into existence, and how code took over the world. In the 1940s and '50s, a small group of men and women--led by John von Neumann--gathered in Princeton, New Jersey, to begin building one of the first computers to realize Alan Turing's vision of a Universal Machine. The codes unleashed within this embryonic, 5-kilobyte universe--less memory than is allocated to displaying a single icon on a computer screen today--broke the distinction between numbers that mean things and numbers that do things, and our universe would never be the same. Turing's Cathedral is the story of how the most constructive and most destructive of twentieth-century inventions--the digital computer and the hydrogen bomb--emerged at the same time.
LC Classification Number
QA76.17.D97 2012b
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