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Bright boys: the making of information technology
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 i...
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CRC Press
2010
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| Acceso en línea: | http://cds.cern.ch/record/1999804 |
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| author | Green, Tom |
| author_facet | Green, Tom |
| author_sort | Green, Tom |
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| 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 consequence of that journey was huge---what we now know as Information Technology. For sixty years the bright boys have been totally anonymous while their achievements have become a way of life for all of us. "Bright Boys" brings them home. By 1950 they'd |
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| institution | Organización Europea para la Investigación Nuclear |
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| publisher | CRC Press |
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| spelling | cern-19998042021-04-21T20:26:26Zhttp://cds.cern.ch/record/1999804engGreen, TomBright boys: the making of information technologyComputing and ComputersEverything 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 consequence of that journey was huge---what we now know as Information Technology. For sixty years the bright boys have been totally anonymous while their achievements have become a way of life for all of us. "Bright Boys" brings them home. By 1950 they'dCRC Pressoai:cds.cern.ch:19998042010 |
| spellingShingle | Computing and Computers Green, Tom Bright boys: the making of information technology |
| title | Bright boys: the making of information technology |
| title_full | Bright boys: the making of information technology |
| title_fullStr | Bright boys: the making of information technology |
| title_full_unstemmed | Bright boys: the making of information technology |
| title_short | Bright boys: the making of information technology |
| title_sort | bright boys: the making of information technology |
| topic | Computing and Computers |
| url | http://cds.cern.ch/record/1999804 |
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