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MuzeFormatDesc: Audio Cassette
ISBN-10: 0786116331
ISBN-13: 9780786116331
May 2000
Publisher: Berkley Pub Group
Language: English |
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Synopsis
In this historical analysis, McCartney tells the story of the first computer, from its humble beginnings as a wartime number cruncher to the revolution it began. During World War II, John Mauchly and Presper Eckert invented ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) as a replacement for the handheld calculators that determined where artillery shells would land. The author asserts that these inventors should receive credit for their contribution to the computing field.
| Size | | Height: | 9.8 in | | Width: | 7.0 in | | Thickness: | 1.2 in | | Weight: | 12.8 oz |
Publisher's Notes
First Line: "In early 1997, Garry Kasparov, the Russian grand master of chess, squared off against "Deep Blue," an International Business Machines Corporation computer built with circuits designed specifically for the kind of computations--the kind of "thinking" that goes on during chess."
Industry Reviews
"The technically minded will not find much real meat in this book....But the descriptions...do provide the lay reader with enough of a sense of the basic technical issues to be able to follow the drama of ENIAC's creation. It is that drama which is the real story here....The cast of characters (famous and unknown), the contending egos, and the egregious acts of dishonesty and deceit make this book an absorbing read for anyone who savors the human stories that underlie great events."
Wired - Robert Spinrad (08/19/1999)
"In his compelling new book ENIAC, Wall Street Journal reporter Scott McCartney explores the fate of two such inventors, John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert, who in 1945 designed the world's first digital computer at the University of Pennsylvania....Though anomalies in their own time, the two emerge from ENIAC not only as the rightful inventors of the digital computer but, more importantly, despite their flaws and failures, as the Lewis and Clark of the information age."
Leggiere
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