Cobb departs from conventional histories of biology by recounting in some depth the development, also in the 1940s, of information science and cybernetics: the work of people such as Alan Turing, Norbert Wiener, John von Neumann and Claude Shannon that ushered in the computer revolution.
In a sense the computer revolution is not unique.
What about visual representations in 3D?" And so he became an early specimen of the computer geek, one of the thousands of bright but shy, socially awkward teenagers who would find in the burgeoning computer revolution a means to express themselves.
SITTING in his office here in Georgia, where an Altair 8800 rests on a corner shelf, Mr. Roberts regards his role in the personal computer revolution with a certain bemused distance.
Unlike a modern computer, the Pilot ACE looks comprehensible, in theory at least; the sort of machine that could, just about, be contained within an (expert) human brain.Less-known again than Turing's foundational role in the computer revolution is the breadth of his other interests, an imbalance that David Rooney, the exhibit's curator, says he is keen to address.
There can be no dispute that Microsoft has played a leading role in the personal computer revolution that has helped fuel this country's unprecedented economic growth.
By prohibiting Microsoft from maintaining the consistency of Windows as a platform for software development, the judgment will destroy the principal value of a product that Microsoft has spent billions of dollars developing and that has played a major role in the personal computer revolution.
What are we going to do to make sure in the computer revolution that there is no violation of people's privacy rights with their health and financial records?
Something similar may be happening with the Internet as the next stage in the computer revolution.
PAGE B1 ULTRA-THIN AND DIRT-CHEAP Get ready for the next stage in the personal computer revolution.
