The computing pioneers of the 1930s, as Isaacson points out, served military objectives.
You may scoff, but quite a few computing pioneers were psychedelic drug users.
Asynchronous designs are not a new idea in circuitry: the mathematician Alan Turing and other computing pioneers experimented with them.
Notable alumni include writers, political theorists, inventors, avant-garde artists and musicians, politicians and computing pioneers.
Among other pupils, the school taught the sons of many London-based diplomats, particularly from the newly independent nations of South America, and the sons of computing pioneer Charles Babbage.
That computer essence is one of the important consequences of another British computing pioneer's work, a century after Babbage.
Alan Turing was a friend, and Furbank became his literary executor after the mathematician and computing pioneer killed himself in 1954.
Opposed to "surveillance" is the term "sousveillance", which was first coined by wearable computing pioneer Steve Mann a decade ago.
"I hope the product matches the hype," said Jerrold Kaplan, a co-founder of the pen computing pioneer Go in 1987.
Mr. Schmidt left his position at Sun Microsystems in 1997 to take over as chief executive at Novell, a network computing pioneer that, like Apple, had been a victim of Microsoft's rise to dominance in desktop computing.
