The Innovators: How A Group Of Hackers, Geniuses, And Geeks Created The Digital Revolution

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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. What were the talents that allowed certain inventors and entrepreneurs to turn their visionary ideas into disruptive realities? What led to their creative leaps? Why did some succeed and others fail? 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. Cover Review Half title Title Copyright Contents The Innovators Introduction | How This Book Came To Be 1 | Ada, Countess Of Lovelace Poetical Science Lord Byron Ada Charles Babbage And His Engines Lade Lovelace's Notes 2 | The Computer Digital Beats Analog Digital Binary Electronic General Purpose Alan Turing Claude Shannon And George Stibitz At Bell Labs Howard Aiken Konrad Zuze John Vincent Atanasoff John Mauchly The Mauchly-Atanasoff Visit J. Presper Eckert ENIAC Bletchley Park So, Who Invented The Computer? 3 | Programming Grace Hopper The Women Of ENIAC Stored Programs John Von Neumann Von Neumann At Penn The Public Unveiling Of ENIAC The First Stored-Program Computers Can Machines Think? 4 | The Transistor Bell Labs William Schockley The Solid-State Team The Transistor Shockley's One-Upmanship Transistor Radios Setting The World On Fire Shockley Semiconductor Robert Noyce And Gordon Moore Shockley Unravels 5 | The Microchip Jack Kilby Noyce's Version Protecting Discoveries Microchips Blast Off Moore's Law Arthur Rock And Venture Capital The Intel Way The Microprocessor 6 | Video Games Steve Russel And Spacewar Nolan Bushnell And ATARI Pong 7 | The Internet Vannevar Bush's Triangle J.C.R. Licklider Time-Sharing And Man-Computer Symbiosis The Intergalactic Computer Network Bob Taylor And Larry Roberts ARPANET Packet Switching: Paul Baran, Donald Davies, And Leonard Kleinrock Was It Nuke-Related? One Giant Leap: The ARPANET has Landed, October 1969 The Internet Networked Creativity 8 | The Personal Computer As We May Think The Cultural Brew Stewart Brand Douglas Engelbart The Mouse And NLS The Mother Of All Demos Alan Kay Xerox Parc The Community Organizers Ed Roberts And The Altair The Homebrew Debut 9 | Software Bill Gates And Paul Allen The Lakeside Programming Group Gates At Harvard Basic For The Altair Micro-Soft Software Wants To Be Free Apple Dan Bricklin And Visicalc The IBM Operating System The Graphical User Interface Windows Richard Stallman, Linux Torvalds, And The Free And Open-Source Software Movements 10 | Online Email And Bulletin Boards Modems The Well America Online Al Gorre And The Eternal September 11 | The Web Tim Berners-Lee Marc Andreessen And Mosaic Justin Hall And How Web Logs Became Blogs Ev Williams And Blogger Ward Cunningham, Jimmy Wales, And Wikis Larry Page, Sergey Brin, And Search 12 | Ada Forever Lady Lovelace's Objection Human-Computer Symbiosis: “Watson, Come Here” Some Lessons From The Journey Ada's Lasting Lesson: Poetical Science Acknowledgments Notes Photo Credits Index About The Author