542 pages
English language
Published Oct. 7, 2014
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution is an overview of the history of computer science and the Digital Revolution. It was written by Walter Isaacson, and published in 2014 by Simon & Schuster. The book summarizes the contributions of several innovators who have made pivotal breakthroughs in computer technology and its applications—from the world's first computer programmer, Ada Lovelace, and Alan Turing's work in artificial intelligence, through the Information Age of the present.
A great overview of the history of the computer and the Internet. There are other books that cover some of this history in more detail and accuracy, but none as accessible to the uninitiated. The book starts with Lady Lovelace and ends with Ginni Romett's leading IBM into a future of human and computer symbiosis with programs like Watson.
