Go to the story of the math majors, bridge players, engineers, chess wizards, maverick scientists, and iconoclasts, the programmers who created the software revolution /

Traces the scientific research, technological innovations, and personalities who created the software revolution and explores the impact of these accoomplishments on the development of computers and programming.

Main Author: Lohr, Steve.
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: New York, NY : Basic Books, [2001]
Physical Description: x, 250 pages ; 24 cm.
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