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Title: The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal by M. Mitchell Waldrop ISBN: 0-14-200135-X Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 27 August, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (12 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Where it all came from
Comment: For anyone interested in why computers and the net are the way they are today, this entertaining and well-written account is essential. Using Licklider as the fulcrum, it covers the origins of computer science, interactive computing, and the internetworked PC world we live with today in a very personal way. It provides an insight into how these ideas evolved and how the personalities behind them animated that evolution. It is admittedly a very MIT/ARPA centric history, but given that's where many of these ideas had their genesis, it does a good job of covering a large amount of the territory of modern computing history. The one question the book leaves unanswered is why the field has not evolved further in the last twenty years. After all, as Waldrop demonstrates, the seeds of what we take for granted today were demonstrably in place 20-25 years ago.
Rating: 5
Summary: Best History of Computer Science
Comment: Everyone has heard about the amazing ideas and systems from Xerox PARC, but few realize that this lab was was the culmination of JCR Licklider's vision of personal, interactive computing, not its birthplace. Licklider provided the vision and impetus to form the ARPA-funded core of computer science research, which lead to Douglas Englebart's windows and mice, Xerox PARC's innovations, and the Internet. The next time that you hear someone saying that government can't do anything well, give them a copy of this book.
This book is a fascinating, well-written exposition of Licklider's life and work, and even more interestingly, the birth of computer science in the United States. I've never before seen this story as a continuous whole, as opposed to a collection of independent breakthroughs. It is a fascinating narrative, and this is a great book.
Rating: 5
Summary: A computer chronology that reads like a novel
Comment: If The Dream Machine were a novel, you might conclude the author used every writer's technique to make it a thriller. Even though you know the outcome, you wonder how the many "miracles" and lucky breaks it took for the dream to become reality.
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Title: Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet by Katie Hafner ISBN: 0684832674 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 21 January, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web by Tim Berners-Lee ISBN: 006251587X Publisher: HarperBusiness Pub. Date: 07 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: How the Web was Born: The Story of the World Wide Web by Robert Cailliau, James Gillies ISBN: 0192862073 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 15 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Dealers of Lightning : Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age by Michael A. Hiltzik ISBN: 0887309895 Publisher: HarperBusiness Pub. Date: 04 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Go To: The Story of the Math Majors, Bridge Players, Engineers, Chess Wizards, Maverick Scientists and Iconoclasts--The Programmers Who Created the Software Revolution by Steve Lohr ISBN: 0465042260 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: 15 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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