George Dyson: 3 books
Turing's Cathedral
The Origins of the Digital Universe
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
“It is possible to invent a single machine which can be used to compute any computable sequence,” twenty-four-year-old Alan Turing announced in 1936. In Turing’s Cathedral, George Dyson focuses on a small group of men and women, led by John von Neumann at the Institute for Advanced Study in...
Turings Kathedrale
Die Ursprünge des digitalen Zeitalters
Language: German
Release Date: September 30, 2014
In den 1940er Jahren kam es am Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton zu einer einzigartigen Zusammenarbeit wissenschaftlicher Genies, die als Keimzelle der digitalen Welt gelten kann. Zu ihnen gehörten Albert Einstein, Robert Oppenheimer, Kurt Gödel, Alan Turing und John von Neumann. In engem...
Darwin Among The Machines
The Evolution Of Global Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Darwin Among the Machines tells the story of humankind’s journey into the digital wilderness. Introducing a cast of familiar and not-so-familiar characters, historian of science George B. Dyson traces the course of the information revolution, illuminating the lives and work of visionaries—from...