<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Kurt Beyer's book on Grace Hopper is quite good.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sep 3, 2020, Marc Weber <marc@webhistory.org> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<i class="">The Dream Machine</i> by Mitch Waldrop on J.C.R. Licklider is a real classic. It is also an important history of his entire milieu, and of early work in timesharing, networking, Web-like online systems, etc. It’s a trade book but deeply researched and referenced. <br clear="none" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br clear="none" class=""></div><div class="">Best, Marc</div><div class=""><br clear="none" class=""><div><blockquote class="" type="cite"><div class="">On Sep 3, 2020, at 04:31, Troy Astarte <<a shape="rect" class="" href="mailto:Troy.Astarte@newcastle.ac.uk">Troy.Astarte@newcastle.ac.uk</a>> wrote:</div><br clear="none" class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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<div class="">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
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<div class="">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. <br clear="none" class="">
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School of Computing</div>
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