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Title	:	Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe
Author	:	George Dyson
Book Format	:	ebook
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 505 pages
Published	:	March 6th 2012 by Pantheon (first published January 1st 2012)
Categories	:	History. Science. Nonfiction. Technology. Computer Science. Biography. Computers

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“It is possible to invent a single machine which can be used to compute any computable sequence,” twenty-four-year-old Alan Turing announced in 1936. In Turing’s Cathedral, George Dyson focuses on a small group of men and women, led by John von Neumann at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, who built one of the first computers to realize Alan Turing’s vision of a Universal Machine. Their work would break the distinction between numbers that mean things and numbers that do things—and our universe would never be the same.
 
Using five kilobytes of memory (the amount allocated to displaying the cursor on a computer desktop of today), they achieved unprecedented success in both weather prediction and nuclear weapons design, while tackling, in their spare time, problems ranging from the evolution of viruses to the evolution of stars.
 
Dyson’s account, both historic and prophetic, sheds important new light on how the digital universe exploded in the aftermath of World War II. The proliferation of both codes and machines was paralleled by two historic developments: the decoding of self-replicating sequences in biology and the invention of the hydrogen bomb. It’s no coincidence that the most destructive and the most constructive of human inventions appeared at exactly the same time.
 
How did code take over the world? In retracing how Alan Turing’s one-dimensional model became John von Neumann’s two-dimensional implementation, Turing’s Cathedral offers a series of provocative suggestions as to where the digital universe, now fully three-dimensional, may be heading next.

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Original Title:	Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Nonfiction (2013)

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I might have easily given this book four stars if Dyson could have stuck to history instead of indulging himself in inane speculations, and commentaries that are sadly meant to sound profound. The connections he draws between completely unrelated aspects of technology and biology are so strained that whenever I read a particularly grievous one, I'm forced to put the book down and walk around the room until the waves of stupidity subside a bit. For example, at one point Dyson asks us to consider

If you are looking for information about Alan Turing, look elsewhere. The title is a metaphor.The Nazis did the U.S. a huge favor with their boorish and stupid racial policies. Many prominent Jews were brilliant mathematicians and physicists, and when the cleansing of universities began by the Nazis, people like Van Neumann, Einstein, and many others fled to the United States where they were of immense assistance in the development of the atomic bomb.This book is about the origins and

This book is almost a biography of John von Neumann, almost a history of the MANIAC computer, almost the story of the beginning of the Computer Science field. All of these topics are connected but it's edited in such a way that it seems like 3 different books collided and were glued together with a lot of unnecessary detours. And that is a real shame, there is a lot of good info in here.I can still recommend this book to other people, but I will have to warn them of these frustrations.

I'm fascinating by the history of computing. There are so many delights there, both geeky and otherwise: glimpses of our present, odd characters, brilliant technical solutions, politics. Turing's Cathedral is a delightful and useful contribution to this field.George Dyson's book takes place during the 1940s and 1950s, focusing on the extraordinary collection of geniuses in Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, and who created a huge amount of modern computing. A large part of Turing's

I enjoyed reading this, and learned several new things while doing so. The book is not at all about Alan Turing. If it is a biography of anybody, it is John von Neuman; but really it is about many people, centered around the IAS in Princeton, who played a role in early computer development. There is also a lot of discussion about the development of nuclear and thermo-nuclear weapons, as one of the first applications of electronic computing. Two big downsides prevent me from rating this book

This book started off rather confusingly--without a clear description of what it was to be about. It did not improve. For some reaosn,the author thought it very important to tell how Princeton was founded and had a lengthy chapter on William Penn from the 1600s. I thought it might be the format--I was reading on Kindle, and entertained the idea of getting the hard copy to flip through irrelevant sections. I then checked reviews and decided to give it a pass all together. Other folks have found

Though I would never dare to participate in anything but a cursory, general conversation about Turing machines or Gödel's theorem or the Monte Carlo method, I just love histories of science and this book made me happy. I listened to the audio version, and often arcane concepts requiring visualization or anything involving equations would blow past me, but all the wonderful details and biographies and momentum more than made up for my muddled moments. I love that it started with a