The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal - Softcover

Waldrop, M. Mitchell

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9780142001356: The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal

Synopsis

A study of the evolution of the modern computer profiles the work of MIT psychologist J. C. R. Licklider, whose visionary dream of a "human-computer symbiosis" transformed the course of modern science and led to the development of the personal computer. Reprint.

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About the Author

M. Mitchell Waldrop, formerly a science writer at Science magazine, is the author of Complexity and Man-Made Minds.

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ISBN 10:  0670899763 ISBN 13:  9780670899760
Publisher: Viking Adult, 2001
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