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Willis Howard Ware
A memoir written by Willis Howard Ware, born August 31, 1920, who was an American computing pioneer. He was also a social critic of technology policy, a founder in the field of computer security, one of the first computer science instructors at UCLA, and the chair of the special advisory committee that significantly influenced the Privacy Act of 1974. He joined RAND Corporation in 1952 and stayed until 1992. He died in Santa Monica on Novermber 22, 2013.
Turing's Cathedral
How did computers take over the world? In late 1945, a small group of brilliant engineers and mathematicians gathered at the newly created Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Their ostensible goal was to build a computer which would be instrumental in the US government's race to create a hydrogen bomb. The mathematicians themselves, however, saw their project as the realization of Alan Turing's theoretical 'universal machine.' In Turing's Cathedral, George Dyson vividly re-creates the intense experimentation, incredible mathematical insight and pure creative genius that led to the dawn of the digital universe, uncovering a wealth of new material to bring a human story of extraordinary men and women and their ideas to life. From the lowliest iPhone app to Google's sprawling metazoan codes, we now live in a world of self-replicating numbers and self-reproducing machines whose origins go back to a 5-kilobyte matrix that still holds clues as to what may lie ahead.
National Union Catalog
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