Full name: ENIAC: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the World's First Computer

Author: Scott McCartney Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9780425176443 0425176444

Based on original interviews with surviving participants and the first study of John Mauchly and Presper Eckert's personal papers, ENIAC tells the story of the three-year race to complete the world's first computer--and of the three-decade struggle to take credit for it. 10 illustrations. Similar books: The Dream Machine by M. Mitchell Waldrop Engines of the Mind by Joel N. Shurkin Computer by Martin Campbell-Kelly Jacquard's Web by James Essinger A History of Modern Computing by Paul E. Ceruzzi Fire in the Valley by Paul Freiberger What the Dormouse Said by John Markoff Nerds 2.0.1 by Stephen Segaller Turing's Cathedral by George Dyson The Most Powerful Idea in the World by William Rosen The Difference Engine by Doron Swade A Thread Across the Ocean by John Steele Gordon Where Wizards Stay Up Late by Katie Hafner Dealers of Lightning by Michael Hiltzik A computer called LEO by Georgina Ferry