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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cochin">These are very good suggestions. If a bit of self-promotion isn’t too crass
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Apple Color Emoji"">😊</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cochin">, I’m rather fond of my biography of Herbert Simon:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cochin">It’s a fair bit older, but I’ve always liked Steven Heims’
<i>John von Neumann and Norbert Wiener</i>:<i> From Mathematics to the Technologies of Life and Death</i> (MIT Press, 1980). Unusual in that it’s a dual biography, but quite good.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Members <members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org> on behalf of Marc Weber <marc@webhistory.org><br>
<b>Date: </b>Thursday, September 3, 2020 at 12:48 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>Alex Ramirez <AlexRamirez@CUNET.CARLETON.CA><br>
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<b>Subject: </b>Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Request for biographies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’ve just started reading <i>Endless Frontier</i> and so far it is truly excellent. Zachary more recently published a collection of Bush’s papers to go with it. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica"><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.computerhistory.org_staff_Marc-2CWeber_&d=DwMFaQ&c=qKdtBuuu6dQK9MsRUVJ2DPXW6oayO8fu4TfEHS8sGNk&r=BM0VlL6M9YOYuQiIBopsWA&m=3IwJOQ7m_7hYjnqa4Sg9oLMmiMyehXTbR7JAFpr5lOo&s=nPiDLCWJejndOxjjsTbiRxFyaAdA9MuTwMO3Lx5HSVw&e=">Marc
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Sep 3, 2020, at 10:16, Alex Ramirez <<a href="mailto:AlexRamirez@CUNET.CARLETON.CA">AlexRamirez@CUNET.CARLETON.CA</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">Zachary, G. P. (1999). Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Troy Astarte<br>
<b>Sent:</b> September 3, 2020 7:31 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> members <<a href="mailto:members@sigcis.org">members@sigcis.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [SIGCIS-Members] Request for biographies<span lang="EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">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. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">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. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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