The information : a history, a theory, a flood / James Gleick.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Pantheon Books, c2011.Edition: 1st edDescription: 526 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:- 9780375423727 (trade)
- 0375423729
- 020/.9
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 429-503) and index.
Traces the history of information technology from the invention of scripts and alphabets to the twenty-first century, and profiles individuals who contributed to advances, including Charles Babbage, inventor of the first mechanical computer, Ada Byron, the first true programmer Samuel Morse, Alan Turing, and others.
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