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Legendary historian and philosopher of science George Dyson vividly re-creates the moments of targeted experimentation, incredible numerical insight, and clean creative genius that provided us personal computers, digital television set, modern genetics, types of stellar advancement - quite simply, computer code. Inside the 1940s and '50s, several eccentric geniuses - led by John von Neumann - collected at the newly created Institute for Advanced Research in Princeton, NJ. Their joint task was the realization of the theoretical common machine, a concept that had been help with by mathematician Alan Turing. This band of brilliant engineers performed in isolation, almost entirely independent from industry and the original academics community. But because they relied solely on government funding, the government desired its share of the results: the computer that they built also led right to the hydrogen bomb. George Dyson has uncovered a wealth of new material about this task, and in bringing the story of these men and women and their ideas to life, he shows how the crucial progress that dominated twentieth-century technology surfaced from one computer in one laboratory, where the digital world as we know it was born.
