The Man Who Invented the Computer: The Biography of John Atanasoff, Digital Pioneer

Smiley, Jane

ISBN 10: 0385527136 ISBN 13: 9780385527132

Editorial: Doubleday, New York, 2010

Idioma: Ingl�s

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The Man Who Invented the Computer: The Biography of John Atanasoff, Digital Pioneer

Editor

Doubleday, New York

Fecha de publicaci�n

2010

Idioma

Ingl�s

ISBN 10

0385527136

ISBN 13

9780385527132

Encuadernaci�n

Hardcover

Edici�n

First Edition.

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New

Estado de la sobrecubierta

New

Tipo de libro

Biography, Computers

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From one of our most acclaimed novelists, a David-and-Goliath biography for the digital age.

One night in the late 1930s, in a bar on the Illinois�Iowa border, John Vincent Atanasoff, a professor of physics at Iowa State University, after a frustrating day performing tedious mathematical calculations in his lab, hit on the idea that the binary number system and electronic switches, com�bined with an array of capacitors on a moving drum to serve as memory, could yield a computing machine that would make his life and the lives of other similarly burdened scientists easier. Then he went back and built the machine. It worked. The whole world changed.

Why don�t we know the name of John Atanasoff as well as we know those of Alan Turing and John von Neumann? Because he never patented the device, and because the developers of the far-better-known ENIAC almost certainly stole critical ideas from him. But in 1973 a court declared that the patent on that Sperry Rand device was invalid, opening the intellectual property gates to the computer revolution.

Jane Smiley tells the quintessentially American story of the child of immigrants John Atanasoff with technical clarity and narrative drive, making the race to develop digital computing as gripping as a real-life techno-thriller.

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JANE SMILEY is the author of eleven novels, including the Pulitzer Prize�winning A Thousand Acres, and three works of nonfiction. She was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2001. Smiley lives in Northern California.

Jane Smiley is the author of fifteen works of fiction for adults and young adults, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning A THOUSAND ACRES, and four works of nonfiction. PRIVATE LIFE, her most recent adult novel, was published in 2010 to critical acclaim. Inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2001, she received the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award for Literature in 2006. She lives in northern California.

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