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The Untold Story of Everything Digital
Bright Boys, Revisited
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Ideal for students, historians, and technology enthusiasts eager to explore the origins and evolution of digital computing and networks.
Although Bright Boys covers the years 1938 to 1958, the critical time period in making Information Technology’s transformative tool—the electronic digital computer (Whirlwind)—was 1945 to 1949. With the 70th anniversary of the making of that tool coming up in 2019, the new edition of Bright Boys will celebrate that singular event.
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The Untold Story of Everything Digital: Bright Boys, Revisited celebrates the 70th anniversary (1949-2019) of the world "going digital" for the very first time—real-time digital computing’s genesis story.
That genesis story is taken from the 2010 edition of Bright Boys: The Making of Information Technology, 1938-1958, and substantially expanded upon for this special, anniversary edition.
Please join us for the incredible adventure that is The Untold Story of Everything Digital, when a band of misfit engineers, led by MIT's Jay Forrester and Bob Everett, birthed the digital revolution. The bright boys were the first to imagine an electronic landscape of computing machines and digital networks, and the first to blaze its high-tech trails.
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Praised as a foundational resource for understanding the rise of digital systems, this volume is recommended for both academic and community libraries. Reviewers highlight its detailed and informed exploration of technological change, marking it as essential reading for anyone seriously interested in the history of technology.
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ISBN: 9780367355609
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 23 September 2019
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: CRC Press
Edition: 2nd edition
Illustration: 1 Tables, black and white; 25 Line drawings, black and white; 1 Halftones, black and white; 26 Illustrations, black and white
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 152.0mm
Height: 229.0mm
Weight: 439g
Pages: 182
About the Author
Tom Green, journalist, writer and video producer, has been reporting on and producing programming about technology for over two decades.
Green is the founder (2017), publisher and editor in chief of Asian Robotics Review. Previously, 2012-2016, he launched and was founding editor in chief of Robotics Business Review (a property of EH Publishing). Green was also on-air host and lead researcher (2013-2016) for Robotics Business Review’s webcast programs, as well as lead editor and contributing author for Robotics Business Review’s annual series of robotics research reports.
Green has spoken at national and international robotics events and conferences; has been the subject of interviews on robotics with Barron’s, The Wall Street Journal, Swissquote, and CNN Money, among others; and also serves as a consultant and adviser on robotics from startups to multi-national corporations.
Formerly, as a TV writer/producer at Boston’s ABC affiliate WCVB-TV, Channel 5, he wrote and produced the news program Lifelines; and was lead writer on weekly sitcom Park Street Under. His work has been twice nominated for Emmy Awards.
His stage plays were produced at Boston’s Next Move Theatre and then reproduced as radio plays for National Public Radio. Green’s In the Room the Women Come and Go won a UNICO national short story award.
Green owned and operated his own video production company for ten years where he produced video for corporations, broadcast, and cable TV.
He is the author of the Amazon best seller Bright Boys: The Making of Information Technology (Taylor & Francis, 2010).
Green’s newest book, The Untold Story of Everything Digital, Bright Boys, Revisited, published by Taylor & Francis (London) goes on sale October 2019.
Web address for The Untold Story of Everything Digital
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