Out of their Minds: The Lives and Discoveries of 15 Great Computer Scientists

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Out of their Minds: The Lives and Discoveries of 15 Great Computer Scientists
Dennis Shasha (Author), Cathy Lazere (Author)
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Imagine living during the Renaissance and being able to interview that eras greatest scientists about their inspirations, discoveries, and personal interests. The latter half of our century has seen its own Renaissance - informations technology has changed irrevocable the way we live, work, and think about the world. We are fortunate, therefore, that the authors of Out of Their Minds have been able to talk so candidly with the founders of computer science.

• Rank: #4524 in eBooks
• Published on: 1998-07-02
• Released on: 1995-09-14
• Format: Kindle eBook
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The Zen of Steve Jobs

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The Zen of Steve Jobs
Caleb Melby (Author), JESS3 (Illustrator)
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An illustrated depiction of Steve Jobs' friendship with Zen Buddhist Kobun Chino Otogawa and the impact it had on Jobs' career

Apple cofounder Steve Jobs (1955-us.html11) had such an enormous impact on so many people that his life often took on aspects of myth. But much of his success was due to collaboration with designers, engineers and thinkers. The Zen of Steve Jobs tells the story of Jobs' relationship with one such person: Kobun Chino Otogawa.

Kobun was a Zen Buddhist priest who emigrated to the U.S. from Japan in the early 1970s. He was an innovator, lacked appreciation for rules and was passionate about art and design. Kobun was to Buddhism as Jobs was to the computer business: a renegade and maverick. It wasn't long before the two became friends--a relationship that was not built to last.

This graphic book is a reimagining of that friendship. The story moves back and forward in time, from the 1970s to 2011, but centers on the period after Jobs' exile from Apple in 1985 when he took up intensive study with Kobun. Their time together was integral to the big leaps that Apple took later on with its product design and business strategy.

Told using stripped down dialogue and bold calligraphic panels, The Zen of Steve Jobs explores how Jobs might have honed his design aesthetic via Eastern religion before choosing to identify only what he needs and leave the rest behind.

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• Published on: 2011-12-12
• Released on: 2011-12-12
• Format: Kindle eBook
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Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents

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Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents
Ellen Ullman (Author)
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With a New Introduction by Jaron Lanier

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• Published on: 2012-02-28
• Released on: 2012-02-28
• Format: Kindle eBook
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Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe

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Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe
by George Dyson
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“It is possible to invent a single machine which can be used to compute any computable sequence,” twenty-four-year-old Alan Turing announced in 1936. In Turing’s Cathedral, George Dyson focuses on a small group of men and women, led by John von Neumann at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, who built one of the first computers to realize Alan Turing’s vision of a Universal Machine. Their work would break the distinction between numbers that mean things and numbers that do things—and our universe would never be the same.
 
Using five kilobytes of memory (the amount allocated to displaying the cursor on a computer desktop of today), they achieved unprecedented success in both weather prediction and nuclear weapons design, while tackling, in their spare time, problems ranging from the evolution of viruses to the evolution of stars.
 
Dyson’s account, both historic and prophetic, sheds important new light on how the digital universe exploded in the aftermath of World War II. The proliferation of both codes and machines was paralleled by two historic developments: the decoding of self-replicating sequences in biology and the invention of the hydrogen bomb. It’s no coincidence that the most destructive and the most constructive of human inventions appeared at exactly the same time.
 
How did code take over the world? In retracing how Alan Turing’s one-dimensional model became John von Neumann’s two-dimensional implementation, Turing’s Cathedral offers a series of provocative suggestions as to where the digital universe, now fully three-dimensional, may be heading next.

• Rank: #37785 in Books
• Published on: 2012-03-06
• Released on: 2012-03-06
• Format: Deckle Edge
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.50" h x 1.52" w x 6.63" l, 1.83 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 432 pages