Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe

摘要: George Dyson's fascinating account of the early years computers: "Turing's Cathedral" is story behind how PC, ipod, smartphone and almost every aspect modern life came into being. In 1945 a small group brilliant engineers mathematicians gathered at Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, determined to build computer that would make Alan Turing's theory 'universal machine' reality. Led by polymath emigre John von Neumann, they created numerical framework underpins all computing - ensured world never be same again. Dyson historian technology whose interests include development (and redevelopment) Aleut kayak. He author "Baidarka"; "Project Orion"; "Darwin Among Machines". "Unusual, wonderful, visionary". (Francis Spufford, "Guardian"). "Fascinating...the tells intensely human...a gripping ideas invention. Fascinating...the invention." ("Jenny Uglow"). "Glorious...as much personalities involved as discoveries made, you do not need any knowledge computers or mathematics enjoy ride. ..a ripping yarn". (John Gribbin, "Literary Review").