Turing's Cathedral读书介绍
| 类别 | 页数 | 译者 | 网友评分 | 年代 | 出版社 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 书籍 | 464页 | 2020 | Vintage |
| 定价 | 出版日期 | 最近访问 | 访问指数 |
|---|---|---|---|
| USD 16.95 | 2020-02-20 … | 2020-07-06 … | 65 |
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In this revealing account of how the digital universe exploded in the aftermath of World War II, George Dyson illuminates the nature of digital computers, the lives of those who brought them into existence, and how code took over the world.
In the 1940s and ‘50s, a small group of men and women—led by John von Neumann—gathered in Princeton, New Jersey, to begin building one of the first computers to realize Alan Turing’s vision of a Universal Machine. The codes unleashed within this embryonic, 5-kilobyte universe—less memory than is allocated to displaying a single icon on a computer screen today—broke the distinction between numbers that mean things and numbers that do things, and our universe would never be the same. Turing’s Cathedral is the story of how the most constructive and most destructive of twentieth-century inventions—the digital computer and the hydrogen bomb—emerged at the same time.
作者简介乔治·戴森 (George Dyson)，美国著名的科技史学家和非虚构类图书作家，研究方向包括技术与物理环境的演变及社会学。作品包括研究数字计算和通信系统的《计算机生命天演论》（Darwin among the Machines）、与太空探索相关的《猎户座计划》（Project Orion）以及研究 阿留申人海豹皮船发展演变过程的《海豹皮船》（Baidarka）。TED演讲人。曾在学术机构、企业和技术会议上广泛发表演讲，话题涉及计算的历史、算法和智能的发展、通信系统、空间探索等，讲述了技术在现代社会演变的历史背景，并在科技和互联网发展方向等问题上，提出了发人深省的理念。
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