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File Size: 12066 KB
Print Length: 466 pages
Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0375422773
Publisher: Pantheon (March 6, 2012)
Publication Date: March 6, 2012
Language: English
ASIN: B005IEGK5C
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I read this book several years ago, but I feel it didn't get all of the attention it deserved. Dyson manages to weave together the stories of the birth of the computer, the beginning of the Institute for Advanced Study and the personalities of some of the leading scientists of the 20th century all in one compelling narrative.The prose is engaging but written for fellow scientists or, at least, the scientifically literate. Because of the fact that Dyson chose to write the book above the level of popular science his book didn't go viral in the way of, say, Blink by Malcolm Gladwell.However, even though I read this book several years ago, I can say I've rarely had the pleasure of reading a finer work since. Highly recommended for a select kind of reader.
I had heard in an interview by the author that the cover of the book had holes in it like the punch card it was depicting. I thought this was pretty cool and worth getting it in paperback for. Turns out that was a previous version or at least not this one. So, I cut out the squares with a pen knife and pasted the attached image onto the first page.1. Download and print the image with the black squares at 100%, full page, dont fit to frame.2. Place paper on top of cover and align with holes. make creases along the edges of the book except along the binding.3. Cut just inside of the three fold lines from step 2.4. Fold the remaining edge along the binding and tape that to the first page.As far as the contents of the book: Still reading. It's light on technical details as others have pointed out but goes into the history and background of how the researchers got to the Institute, some escaping Germany to do so. Overall enjoyable and informative. Some of the details G. Dyson adds are a result of his sleuthing and searching basements and archives for original documents. When coming across those passages I feel close to the source.
...of the origins of the digital era. Imagine 1946 America, where the total amount of random access memory in the U.S. was five kilobytes--about what it takes to keep the image of your pointer on your computer (and millions of computers worldwide, not to mention tablets, cellphones, etc.) This was the birth of our era.The writer is the son of a physicist at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study (interesting photo of the author at age 3 wandering about, and his account of how he and his playmates scavenged obsolete electronic gear in an old nearby barn), so he include personal letters, recollections, encounters, interviews, and subject matter from the early digital era. I found the story fascinating.I did have one problem, which is that I had a hard time understanding exactly how "random access memory" (the RAM we have in our computers nowadays) worked. The author moved very quickly from Alan Turing's one-dimensional infinitely long paper tape, to two-dimensional, and then three-dimensional forty floor "hotel suites" where memory was addressed. Oh, well. My bad.Still, a wonderfully eloquent, well researched and quite readable work.
This is an excellent introduction to the early years of computers as seen from the vantage point of the Institute of Advanced Studies at Princeton and the fascinating people who worked there during the thirties and WWII. The participation of these figures, and others, in the development of the atom bomb is examined with more than a hint of the crucial issue of the conflict between secrecy and open sharing, between the commercial (e.g., patents) and computers as vehicles for pure research or free public usage. George Dyson is a clear and gifted writer, commands the fields he treats, and has a leg up on the Institute, given that he grew up there with his celebrated father Freeman Dyson. By the way, though, Turing is a background figure in the book, though of course a vital one.
I have read many reviews of this book, and I am disappointed by the lack of vision of some of the readers. Suffice it to say, this book represents much more than meets the eye. It is not a book about Alan Turing, but rather about how Alan Turing's vision of the Turing Machine has ultimately become the entire digital world we think we know today.Dyson integrates the the visions and accomplishments of Turing and those of his peers who pursued these visions with an uncanny foresight. John von Neuman of course was the primary mover/shaker of so much that happened through the 1940's and mid 50'.What Dyson does with this material is to show how the digital and biological universes have become one ... so intermeshed that it is difficult at best to see the boundaries of either.I, personally, have had the fortune of having programmed computers of the late 50s and early 60s (and of course much later), and this truly gives me a perspective on how true some of these visions have become.I will say no more, since dinner is beckoning, but if you seriously want to understand the impact of computers on our world, this is a wonderful place to start.
Eh. Parts are interesting, even compelling, but there are also too many chunks of 10 pages that shouldn't have made the final book. I know it's the current style of these types of non-fiction books, but I don't need to know the history of the land a university sits on from native american times, or someone's family history back 5 generations, unless it is relevant to the subject.
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