The innovators :
Isaacson, Walter,
The innovators : how a group of hackers, geniuses, and geeks created the digital revolution / How a group of inventors, hackers, geniuses, and geeks created the digital revolution. Walter Isaacson. - First Simon & Schuster trade paperback edition. - viii, 542 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [493]-523) and index.
The Innovators is Walter Isaacson's revealing story of the people who created the computer and the Internet. It is destined to be the standard history of the digital revolution and an indispensable guide to how innovation really happens. In his masterly saga, Isaacson begins with Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron's daughter, who pioneered computer programming in the 1840s. He explores the fascinating personalities that created our current digital revolution, such as Vannevar Bush, Alan Turing, John von Neumann, J.C.R. Licklider, Doug Engelbart, Robert Noyce, Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs, Tim Berners-Lee, and Larry Page. This is the story of how their minds worked and what made them so inventive. It's also a narrative of how their ability to collaborate and master the art of teamwork made them even more creative. For an era that seeks to foster innovation, creativity, and teamwork, The Innovators shows how they happen.
9781476708706 (paperback) 9781476708690 (hardback)
YBP11752320
2014021391
GBB481138 bnb
Computers--History.
Computer industry--History.
Creative ability in technology.
Computer scientists--Biography.
Computer science--History.
Internet--History.
QA76.2.A2 / I87 2014
004.092/2 B
The innovators : how a group of hackers, geniuses, and geeks created the digital revolution / How a group of inventors, hackers, geniuses, and geeks created the digital revolution. Walter Isaacson. - First Simon & Schuster trade paperback edition. - viii, 542 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [493]-523) and index.
The Innovators is Walter Isaacson's revealing story of the people who created the computer and the Internet. It is destined to be the standard history of the digital revolution and an indispensable guide to how innovation really happens. In his masterly saga, Isaacson begins with Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron's daughter, who pioneered computer programming in the 1840s. He explores the fascinating personalities that created our current digital revolution, such as Vannevar Bush, Alan Turing, John von Neumann, J.C.R. Licklider, Doug Engelbart, Robert Noyce, Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs, Tim Berners-Lee, and Larry Page. This is the story of how their minds worked and what made them so inventive. It's also a narrative of how their ability to collaborate and master the art of teamwork made them even more creative. For an era that seeks to foster innovation, creativity, and teamwork, The Innovators shows how they happen.
9781476708706 (paperback) 9781476708690 (hardback)
YBP11752320
2014021391
GBB481138 bnb
Computers--History.
Computer industry--History.
Creative ability in technology.
Computer scientists--Biography.
Computer science--History.
Internet--History.
QA76.2.A2 / I87 2014
004.092/2 B