The Universal Machine : From the Dawn of Computing to Digital Consciousness

Ian Watson

ISBN 10: 364228101X / ISBN 13: 9783642281013

Edité par Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - The computer unlike other inventions is universal; you can use a computer for many tasks: writing, composing music, designing buildings, creating movies, inhabiting virtual worlds, communicating.This popular science history isn't just about technology but introduces the pioneers: Babbage, Turing, Apple's Wozniak and Jobs, Bill Gates, Tim Berners-Lee, Mark Zuckerberg. This story is about people and the changes computers have caused. In the future ubiquitous computing, AI, quantum and molecular computing could even make us immortal. The computer has been a radical invention. In less than a single human life computers are transforming economies and societies like no human invention before. N° de réf. du vendeur 9783642281013

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Titre : The Universal Machine : From the Dawn of ...

Éditeur : Springer Berlin Heidelberg

Date d'édition : 2012

Reliure : Taschenbuch

Etat : Neu

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The Universal Machine In less than a human lifetime, computers are transforming economies and societies like no other human invention. This book looks past technology to introduce comuputing pioneers: Babbage, Turing, Wozniak and Jobs, Bill Gates, Tim Berners-Lee, Mark Zuckerberg. Full description

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Question: who invented the computer? Hint: not Bill Gates or Steve Jobs. Would you be surprised to know that the computer was conceived in Victorian times? The Universal Machine's history is as colorful as the people who created it. They include an aristocratic lady whose talents and lifestyle were quite scandalous at the time, the tragic Alan Turing, whose genius helped win WWII, and a rag-tag bunch of dropouts who not only shaped the PC, but gave birth to the counter-culture that drives Silicon Valley today. To understand the pivotal role that computers play in our lives, you must get to know these people to see how their innovative thinking changed our lives irrevocably, and made and lost fortunes overnight. This book also tracks some of the more intriguing (if not baffling) developments, from hacking to social networking, and demonstrates how the computer has become central to everything we do. So, take the plunge. Learn how the Analytical Engine became a Universal Machine, and shrank from a monster that required a room of its own, to something that fits into your pocket and one day soon will be part of you.