Portraits in silicon
By: Robert Slater.
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 374
Subjects: Computer engineers  -- Biography; Computers  -- History; Computer industry  -- History; Industrialists  -- Biography
Description: Short biographies of: Charles Babbage, Alan Turing, John von Neumann, Claude Shannon, Konrad Zuse, John V. Atanasoff, John V. Mauchly, J. Presper Eckert, Howard Aiken, Jay W. Forrester, Thomas J. Watson, Sr., William Norris, H. Ross Perot, William Shockley, Robert Noyce, Jack Kilby, Marcian E. (Ted) Hoff, Gene Amdahl, Seymour Cray, Gordon Bell, Grace Murray Hopper, John Backus, John Kemeny, Thomas Kurtz, Gary Kildall, William Gates, Dennis Ritchie, Kenneth Thompson, Daniel Bricklin, Nolan Bushnell, Steven Jobs, Adam Osborne, William Millard, Donald Knuth.
Notes: Includes index.

Bibliography: p. [359]-361.