The Innovators is Walter Isaacson’s revealing story of the people who created the computer and the Internet. It is destined to be the standard history of the digital revolution and an indispensable guide to how innovation really happens. What were the talents that allowed certain inventors and entrepreneurs to turn their visionary ideas into disruptive realities? What led to their creative leaps? Why did some succeed and others fail? In his masterly saga, Isaacson begins with Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron’s daughter, who pioneered computer programming in the 1840s. He explores the fascinating personalities that created our current digital revolution, such as Vannevar Bush, Alan Turing, John von Neumann, J.C.R. Licklider, Doug Engelbart, Robert Noyce, Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs, Tim Berners-Lee, and Larry Page. This is the story of how their minds worked and what made them so inventive. It’s also a narrative of how their ability to collaborate and master the art of teamwork made them even more creative. For an era that seeks to foster innovation, creativity, and teamwork, The Innovators shows how they happen.
Author(s): Walter Isaacson
Edition: 1
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Year: 2015
Language: English
Commentary: TruePDF
Pages: 561
Tags: Computer Scientists: Biography; Computer Science: History; Internet: History
Cover
Review
Half title
Title
Copyright
Contents
The Innovators
Introduction | How This Book Came To Be
1 | Ada, Countess Of Lovelace
Poetical Science
Lord Byron
Ada
Charles Babbage And His Engines
Lade Lovelace's Notes
2 | The Computer
Digital Beats Analog
Digital
Binary
Electronic
General Purpose
Alan Turing
Claude Shannon And George Stibitz At Bell Labs
Howard Aiken
Konrad Zuze
John Vincent Atanasoff
John Mauchly
The Mauchly-Atanasoff Visit
J. Presper Eckert
ENIAC
Bletchley Park
So, Who Invented The Computer?
3 | Programming
Grace Hopper
The Women Of ENIAC
Stored Programs
John Von Neumann
Von Neumann At Penn
The Public Unveiling Of ENIAC
The First Stored-Program Computers
Can Machines Think?
4 | The Transistor
Bell Labs
William Schockley
The Solid-State Team
The Transistor
Shockley's One-Upmanship
Transistor Radios
Setting The World On Fire
Shockley Semiconductor
Robert Noyce And Gordon Moore
Shockley Unravels
5 | The Microchip
Jack Kilby
Noyce's Version
Protecting Discoveries
Microchips Blast Off
Moore's Law
Arthur Rock And Venture Capital
The Intel Way
The Microprocessor
6 | Video Games
Steve Russel And Spacewar
Nolan Bushnell And ATARI
Pong
7 | The Internet
Vannevar Bush's Triangle
J.C.R. Licklider
Time-Sharing And Man-Computer Symbiosis
The Intergalactic Computer Network
Bob Taylor And Larry Roberts
ARPANET
Packet Switching: Paul Baran, Donald Davies, And Leonard Kleinrock
Was It Nuke-Related?
One Giant Leap: The ARPANET has Landed, October 1969
The Internet
Networked Creativity
8 | The Personal Computer
As We May Think
The Cultural Brew
Stewart Brand
Douglas Engelbart
The Mouse And NLS
The Mother Of All Demos
Alan Kay
Xerox Parc
The Community Organizers
Ed Roberts And The Altair
The Homebrew Debut
9 | Software
Bill Gates And Paul Allen
The Lakeside Programming Group
Gates At Harvard
Basic For The Altair
Micro-Soft
Software Wants To Be Free
Apple
Dan Bricklin And Visicalc
The IBM Operating System
The Graphical User Interface
Windows
Richard Stallman, Linux Torvalds, And The Free And Open-Source Software Movements
10 | Online
Email And Bulletin Boards
Modems
The Well
America Online
Al Gorre And The Eternal September
11 | The Web
Tim Berners-Lee
Marc Andreessen And Mosaic
Justin Hall And How Web Logs Became Blogs
Ev Williams And Blogger
Ward Cunningham, Jimmy Wales, And Wikis
Larry Page, Sergey Brin, And Search
12 | Ada Forever
Lady Lovelace's Objection
Human-Computer Symbiosis:
“Watson, Come Here”
Some Lessons From The Journey
Ada's Lasting Lesson: Poetical Science
Acknowledgments
Notes
Photo Credits
Index
About The Author
