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008			120507s2012 nyuab b 001 0 eng
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050	0	0	_aQA76.17 _b.D97 2012
082	0	0	_a004.09 DYS
100	1		_aDyson, George B., 1953-
245	1	0	_aTuring's cathedral _b: the origins of the digital universe _c/ George Dyson
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aNew York _b: Pantheon Books _c, 2012.
300			_axxii, 401 p. _b: ill., map _c; 25 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 341-377) and index.
520			_a"Legendary historian and philosopher of science George Dyson vividly re-creates the scenes of focused experimentation, incredible mathematical insight, and pure creative genius that gave us computers, digital television, modern genetics, models of stellar evolution--in other words, computer code. In the 1940s and '50s, a group of eccentric geniuses--led by John von Neumann--gathered at the newly created Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Their joint project was the realization of the theoretical universal machine, an idea that had been put forth by mathematician Alan Turing. This group of brilliant engineers worked in isolation, almost entirely independent from industry and the traditional academic community. But because they relied exclusively on government funding, the government wanted its share of the results: the computer that they built also led directly to the hydrogen bomb. George Dyson has uncovered a wealth of new material about this project, and in bringing the story of these men and women and their ideas to life, he shows how the crucial advancements that dominated twentieth-century technology emerged from one computer in one laboratory, where the digital universe as we know it was born"-- _cProvided by publisher.
600	1	0	_aVon Neumann, John _d(, 1903-1957)
600	1	0	_aTuring, Alan Mathison _d, 1912-1954
650		0	_aComputers _x--History
650		4	_aScientists _x-United States _v- Biography
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