| Title | : | Barbary Shore |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.74 (737 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B000HDJSDU |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 0 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
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1951
Editorial :
Never one to deny credit where it was due, Wilkes (who later spearheaded advances in software, became the doyen of Britain's electronic community and ended his long and distinguished career as professor emeritus of computer science at Cambridge) unceasingly acknowledged his major debt to Eckert and Mauchly. Charney was trying to implement von Neumann's grand dream of controlling the weather, but neither he nor von Neumann could anticipate chaos and the fundamental sensitivity of weather to tiny fluctuations. Links worked great.
38. In addition, Dyson often meanders into one too many digressions that break the flow of the narrative; for instance, do we really need to know so much about Kurt Godel's difficulties in obtaining a visa? And do we need to get bogged down in minutiae such as the starting dates and salaries for every member of the project and the list of items on the cafeteria menu? Details like these might put casual readers off.
Notwithstanding these gripes, t
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