Bright Boys: The Making of Information Technology
- ISBN-10
- 1439865221
- ISBN-13
- 9781439865224
- Category
- Mathematics
- Pages
- 321
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010-03-31
- Publisher
- CRC Press
- Author
- Tom Green
Description
Everything has a beginning. None was more profound-and quite as unexpected-than Information Technology. Here for the first time is the untold story of how our new age came to be and the bright boys who made it happen. What began on the bare floor of an old laundry building eventually grew to rival in size the Manhattan Project. The unexpected
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