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Short biographies of: Charles Babbage, Alan Turing, John von Neumann, Claude Shannon, Konrad Zuse, John V. Atanasoff, John V. Mauchly, J. Presper Eckert, Howard Aiken, Jay W. Forrester, Thomas J. Watson, Sr., William Norris, H. Ross Perot, William Shockley, Robert Noyce, Jack Kilby, Marcian E. (Ted)...

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Main Author: Slater, Robert, 1943-2014
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1987.
Subjects:
Computer engineers > Biography.
Computers > History.
Computer industry > History.
Industrialists > Biography.
COMPUTER SCIENCE/General
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:Short biographies of: Charles Babbage, Alan Turing, John von Neumann, Claude Shannon, Konrad Zuse, John V. Atanasoff, John V. Mauchly, J. Presper Eckert, Howard Aiken, Jay W. Forrester, Thomas J. Watson, Sr., William Norris, H. Ross Perot, William Shockley, Robert Noyce, Jack Kilby, Marcian E. (Ted) Hoff, Gene Amdahl, Seymour Cray, Gordon Bell, Grace Murray Hopper, John Backus, John Kemeny, Thomas Kurtz, Gary Kildall, William Gates, Dennis Ritchie, Kenneth Thompson, Daniel Bricklin, Nolan Bushnell, Steven Jobs, Adam Osborne, William Millard, Donald Knuth.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiv, 374 pages) : illustrations, portraits
ISBN:0262291428
9780262291422
DOI:10.7551/mitpress/5485.001.0001