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Pioneering American Computer Geniuses
It is hard to imagine a world without computers. The people found in this book are largely responsible for creating the high-tech world in which we live today. These computer geniuses include early programmers like Grace Hopper and Herman Hollerith, computer chip inventors like Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce, and business people like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. Readers take a look at thirteen individuals whose work has helped bring modern computers to their current level. Other people profiled in this volume are John von Neumann, John W. Mauchly, J. Presper Eckert, Jr., An Wang, Stephen Wozniak, Marc Hannah and Marc Andreessen.
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Pioneering American Computer Geniuses does a fantastic job of walking the reader through the evolution of computer technology. Most of the books I have found on this topic contain one or two developments and really focus on them. What students have a hard time seeing is the whole evolution or the interconnectedness of the evolution of technology.
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