The innovators
Subtitle: how a group of hackers, geniuses, and geeks created the digital revolution
By: Walter Isaacson
Edition: Large print edition.
Publisher: Large Print Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Farmington Hills, Mich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 955
ISBN-13: 9781594138850
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History; Computer scientists; Computer science; Internet; Large type books; Biography; History
Description: The Innovators is Walter Isaacson's revealing story of the people who created the computer and the Internet. It is also a history of the digital revolution and a 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? 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.--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 843-946).
Table of contents: title: Ada, Countess of Lovelace; title: The computer; title: Programming; title: The transistor; title: The microchip; title: Video games; title: The Internet; title: The personal computer; title: Software; title: Online; title: The Web; title: Ada forever.