The innovators

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Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, The Innovators is Walter Isaacson’s revealing story of the people who created the computer and the Internet. It is destined to be the standard history of the digital revolution and an indispensable guide to how innovation really happens. What were the talents that allowed certain inventors and entrepreneurs to turn their visionary ideas into disruptive realities? What led to their creative leaps? Why did some succeed and others fail? In his masterly saga, Isaacson begins with Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron’s daughter, who pioneered computer programming in the 1840s. He explores the fascinating personalities that created our current digital revolution, such as Vannevar Bush, Alan Turing, John von Neumann, J.C.R. Licklider, Doug Engelbart, Robert Noyce, Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs, Tim Berners-Lee, and Larry Page. This is the story of how their minds worked and what made them so inventive. It’s also a narrative of how their ability to collaborate and master the art of teamwork made them even more creative. For an era that seeks to foster innovation, creativity, and teamwork, The Innovators shows how they happen.

subjects: Biography,  Computer scientists,  History,  Internet,  Computer science,  Bell Telephone Laboratories,  BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY,  Science & Technology,  BUSINESS & ECONOMICS,  Industries,  Computer Industry,  TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING,  TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History,  BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology,  BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Computer Industry,  Scientists, biography,  Computers, history,  Technological innovations,  Large type books,  nyt:hardcover-nonfiction=2014-10-26,  New York Times bestseller,  New York Times reviewed,  Informatiker,  Informatik,  Creative ability in technology,  Atarazanas,  Histoire,  Ordinateurs,  Informaticiens,  Biographies,  Datavetenskap,  Historia,  Informáticos,  Biografías,  Innovaciones tecnológicas,  Aspectos económicos,  Inventores,  Informática,  Computadoras,  Computación,  Científicos,  Industria,  Biografía,  nyt:science=2015-11-08,  Digital,  20th century,  General,  English & college success -> english -> biography & autobiography,  Business & economics -> business -> industries,  Trades & technology -> technology & engineering -> history,  Professional, career & trade -> electronics -> general,  Professional, career & trade -> computer science -> history,  Social sciences -> history -> american history

People: Ada King Lovelace Countess of (1815-1852),  Charles Babbage (1791-1871),  Vannevar Bush (1890-1974),  John Presper Eckert (1919-1995),  J. C. R. Licklider,  John William Mauchly (1907-1980),  Robert Norton Noyce (1927-1990),  Lawrence G. Roberts,  William Shockley (1910-1989),  R. W. Taylor (1932-2017),  John von Neumann (1903-1957),  Grace Murray Hopper,  Bill Gates (1955-),  Larry Page (1973-),  Sergey Brin (1973-),  Andrew S. Grove,  Douglas Carl Engelbart (1925-2013),  Steve Jobs (1955-2011),  Alan Mathison Turing (1912-1954),  Tim Berners-Lee (1955-),  Michael Dell (1965-),  Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (1815-1852)