Ian Sample: 3 books
Massive
The Missing Particle That Sparked the Greatest Hunt in Science
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
The biggest science story of our time, Massive spans four decades, weaving together the personal narratives and international rivalries behind the search for the God" particle, or Higgs boson. A story of grand ambition, intense competition, clashing egos, and occasionally spectacular failures,...
by Ian Sample
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Sono tutti lì, fuori dai cancelli del CERN, per farsi dire che è vero: il bosone di Higgs esiste. È il 4 luglio 2012. Sono trascorsi cinquant’anni da quando Peter Higgs abbozzava nel suo taccuino la possibilità di una nuova particella; quattro da quando è entrata in funzione la più grande...
by Nick Montfort, John Bell, Ian Bogost
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2012
A single line of code offers a way to understand the cultural context of computing.
This book takes a single line of code—the extremely concise BASIC program for the Commodore 64 inscribed in the title—and uses it as a lens through which to consider the phenomenon of creative computing...