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- -: Authors at Google: George Dyson, "Turing's Cathedral"
March 20, 2012 (about 11 years ago)Description: Dyson's account of the origins of modern computing, both historic and prophetic, sheds important new light on how the digital universe exploded in the aftermath of World War II. The proliferation of both codes and machines was paralleled by two historic developments: the decoding of ...
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- -: Authors at Google Presents George Dyson: Turing's Cathedral
March 20, 2012 (about 11 years ago)Description: Dyson's account of the origins of modern computing, both historic and prophetic, sheds important new light on how the digital universe exploded in the aftermath of World War II. The proliferation of both codes and machines was paralleled by two historic developments: the decoding of ...
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- -: Keen On... George Dyson
March 19, 2012 (about 11 years ago)Andrew Keen interviews George Dyson, author of Turing's Cathedral.
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- -: George Dyson: Let's take a nuclear-powered rocket to Saturn
February 19, 2008 (over 15 years ago)http://www.ted.com George Dyson tells the amazing story of Project Orion, a massive, nuclear-powered spacecraft that could have taken us to Saturn in five years. With a priceless insider's perspective and a cache of documents, photos and film, Dyson brings this dusty Atomic Age dream to vivid life.
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- -: George Dyson: The birth of the computer
June 23, 2008 (almost 15 years ago)http://www.ted.com Historian George Dyson tells stories from the birth of the modern computer -- from its 16th-century origins to the hilarious notebooks of some early computer engineers.
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- -: Turing's Cathedral
April 18, 2008 (about 15 years ago)Google Tech Talks April, 9 2008 ABSTRACT New Light on the Dawn of Digital Computing, 1945-1958 The digital universe consists of two kinds of bits: differences in space and differences in time. Digital computers translate between these two forms of information--structure and sequence--accordin...
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Kary Mullis: Kary Mullis Celebrates the Experiment
February 1, 2002 (over 21 years ago)Kary Mullis shares his personal experiences on how he started doing science and shows the audience the boldness and intuitiveness scientists should adapt when doing experiements.
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George Dyson: The Birth of the Computer
March 1, 2003 (over 20 years ago)George Dyson helps make appreciation of the history of computers easier and even humorous despite the fact that it is one of the reasons bombs have become so successfuly used today.
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George Dyson: Project Orion
February 1, 2002 (over 21 years ago)George Dyson looks back on the history of spacecrafts with Project Orion as the reference.
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