[SIGCIS-Members] Request for biographies

[Heyck, Hunter]

These are very good suggestions. If a bit of self-promotion isn’t too crass 😊, I’m rather fond of my biography of Herbert Simon: Herbert A. Simon: the bounds of reason in modern America, JHU Press 2005.

It’s a fair bit older, but I’ve always liked Steven Heims’ John von Neumann and Norbert Wiener: From Mathematics to the Technologies of Life and Death (MIT Press, 1980). Unusual in that it’s a dual biography, but quite good.

Best,
--Hunter

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From: Members <members-bounces at lists.sigcis.org> on behalf of Marc Weber <marc at webhistory.org>
Date: Thursday, September 3, 2020 at 12:48 PM
To: Alex Ramirez <AlexRamirez at CUNET.CARLETON.CA>
Cc: members <members at sigcis.org>
Subject: Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Request for biographies

I’ve just started reading Endless Frontier and so far it is truly excellent. Zachary more recently published a collection of Bush’s papers to go with it.
Best, Marc

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On Sep 3, 2020, at 10:16, Alex Ramirez <AlexRamirez at CUNET.CARLETON.CA<mailto:AlexRamirez at CUNET.CARLETON.CA>> wrote:

Troy,

I constantly refer to

Zachary, G. P. (1999). Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press

Alex

From: Members <members-bounces at lists.sigcis.org<mailto:members-bounces at lists.sigcis.org>> On Behalf Of Troy Astarte
Sent: September 3, 2020 7:31 AM
To: members <members at sigcis.org<mailto:members at sigcis.org>>
Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] Request for biographies

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Dear SIG-CIS,

What is your favourite biography of a scientist or mathematician? I’m particularly interested in modern subjects and those who worked in computing/computer science. Ideally the book would cover the subject’s work in a reasonable level of technical detail as well as their life and the broader context in which they lived and worked.

I ask because I am considering applying for funding for an essentially biographical project on a computer scientist and I would like to read some (more) biographies first.

Best,

Troy Astarte

School of Computing
Newcastle University

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