Turing's Cathedral
The Origins of the Digital Universe
by George Dyson

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Author(s)

George Dyson

Publication

New York : Pnaheon Books, 2012

Scope

404 Pages, illustrated, 24 cm.

ISBN

9781400075997

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In this story 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. 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.

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Keywords

war , future scenario's , computers , technological history

Location

Cabinet 11 - 5: Digital Media & the Internet

Remarks

Incl. bibliographical references and Index.