@article{435636,
      recid = {435636},
      author = {Dyson, George,},
      title = {Turing's cathedral : the origins of the digital universe  /},
      publisher = {Pantheon Books,},
      address = {New York :},
      pages = {xxii, 401 p., [32] p. of plates :},
      year = {2012},
      abstract = {"Legendary historian and philosopher of science George  Dyson vividly re-creates the scenes of focused  experimentation, incredible mathematical insight, and pure  creative genius that gave us computers, digital television,  modern genetics, models of stellar evolution--in other  words, computer code. In the 1940s and '50s, a group of  eccentric geniuses--led by John von Neumann--gathered at  the newly created Institute for Advanced Study in  Princeton, New Jersey. Their joint project was the  realization of the theoretical universal machine, an idea  that had been put forth by mathematician Alan Turing. This  group of brilliant engineers worked in isolation, almost  entirely independent from industry and the traditional  academic community. But because they relied exclusively on  government funding, the government wanted its share of the  results: the computer that they built also led directly to  the hydrogen bomb. George Dyson has uncovered a wealth of  new material about this project, and in bringing the story  of these men and women and their ideas to life, he shows  how the crucial advancements that dominated  twentieth-century technology emerged from one computer in  one laboratory, where the digital universe as we know it  was born"--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/435636},
}