Portraits In Silicon

Slater, Robert

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Portraits In Silicon

The MIT Press

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https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/5485.001.0001

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9780262291422

Publication date:

1989

Who are the masterminds of today's electronic revolution and what motivated them? That's the question Time correspondent Robert Slater asked as he traveled to Silicon Valley to interview the designers, entrepreneurs, hardware engineers, and software writers who have given us the modern computer.

Robert Slater is a member of the reporting staff of the Time Jerusalem bureau.

Preface

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Acknowledgments

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The Conceptualizers
The Early Inventors
The Early Entrepreneurs
Making the Computer Smaller and More Powerful
The Hardware Designers
The Software Specialists
Bringing the Computer to the Masses
Computer Science Pioneer
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Notes

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Bibliography

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Illustration Credits

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1989

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