Текст книги "The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution"

Автор книги: Walter Isaacson

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Copyright © 2014 by Walter Isaacson

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First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition October 2014

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Photo research and editing by Laura Wyss, Wyssphoto, Inc., with the assistance of Elizabeth Seramur, Amy Hikida, and Emily Vinson, and by Jonathan Cox.

Interior design by Ruth Lee-Mui

Jacket design by Pete Garceau

Jacket art (from top to bottom):

Ada Lovelace by Margaret Carpenter/Hultpn Archive/Getty Images; Steve Jobs by Justin Sullivan /Stringer/Getty Images News; Bill Gates by Theo Wargo/WireImage for OMEGA /Getty Images; Alan Turing by Private Collection/Prismatic Pictures/Bridgeman Images; Author photo by Patrice Gilbert

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Isaacson, Walter.

The innovators : how a group of inventors, hackers, geniuses, and geeks created the digital revolution / Walter Isaacson. – First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

pages cm

1. Computer scientists—Biography. 2. Computer science—History. 3. Internet—History. I. Title.

QA76.2.A2I87 2014

004.092′2—dc23

[B]     2014021391

ISBN 978-1-4767-0869-0

ISBN 978-1-4767-0871-3 (ebook)

Photo credits appear on page 525.