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• dbarlett · Dec 29, 2013 · Recommends

  …Three more: The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood http://www.amazon.com/The-Information-History-Theory-Flood/d... Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe http://www.amazon.com/Turings-Cathedral-Origins-Digital-Univ... Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future: The Ingenious Ideas That Drive Today's Computers http://www.amazon.com/Nine-Algorithms-That-Changed-Future/dp...

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• oldbuzzard · Nov 20, 2016 · Recommends

  Gleick's "The Information" and Dyson's "Turing's Cathedral" would be 2 other good pop sci books on the origins of CS. https://www.amazon.com/Information-History-Theory-Flood/dp/1... https://www.amazon.com/Turings-Cathedral-Origins-Digital-Uni...

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• MetallicCloud · Jul 5, 2023 · Recommends

  "Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe" is the best I've read. https://www.amazon.com/Turings-Cathedral-Origins-Digital-Uni...

  on “Ask HN: Good Books on the History of Technology?” ↗
• anaphor · Dec 29, 2019 · Recommends

  …debt. https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.222834/page/n7 https://people.umass.edu/klement/imp/imp-ebk.pdf https://archive.org/details/humeenquiry00humerich/page/n7 https://www.amazon.com/Turings-Cathedral-Origins-Digital-Uni... https://www.amazon.com/Am-Strange-Loop-Douglas-Hofstadter/dp... https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Information-Theory-Symbo... https://www.amazon.com/Borrow-American-Debt-Louis-Hyman/dp/0...

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• nekkoru · Jul 7, 2015 · Recommends

  If you want a very detailed account of the super early history of electronic computing, George Dyson's "Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe." http://www.amazon.com/Turings-Cathedral-Origins-Digital-Univ... Other great titles I'd recommend is Steven Levy's "Hackers" http://www.amazon.com/Hackers-Heroes-Computer-Revolution-Ann... and Phil Lapsley's "Exploding the Phone" http://www.amazon.com/Exploding-Phone-Untold-Teenagers-Outla...…

  on “Ask HN: How to learn about the history of computing?” ↗
• calhoun137 · Nov 15, 2019 · Recommends

  Turings Cathedral by George Dyson is fantastic https://books.google.com/books/about/Turing_s_Cathedral.html...

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• seemaze · Oct 2, 2026 · Recommends

  highly recommend reading: Turings Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe by George Dyson[0] it covers von Nuemann’s time developing the IAS machine at Princeton. [0] https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/44425/turings-cathe...

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• throwawayffffff · Apr 18, 2020 · Recommends

  Also worth mentioning is "Turings Cathedral" by George Dyson

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• calhoun137 · Feb 20, 2021 · Mentions

  …improvements can also have their roots in pure mathematics as well. At least, I would not say it "seems unlikely" [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Draft_of_a_Report_on_the... [2] https://www.amazon.com/Turings-Cathedral-Origins-Digital-Uni...

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• jamespitts · Jul 14, 2015 · Mentions

  Turing's Cathedral covers von Neumann's wartime work, the IAS machine and the purpose for which it was built, and many other aspects of his life. http://www.amazon.com/Turings-Cathedral-Origins-Digital-Univ...?

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• jazzyjackson · Dec 7, 2023 · Mentions

  …government's interest in advancing computers was the military advantage of being able to predict the weather. Maybe if it was thoroughly understood, they could even control it! Alas. All covered in the book "Turings Cathedral"

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