<signature id="signaturefinder_x-mail-compose1599249395443"><div>Dear all</div><div><br></div><div>The comprehensive bibliography of my new book on the history of computing includes very many biographies, see</div><div><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 3pt 17pt; text-indent: -17pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Bruderer, Herbert: </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Milestones in Analog and Digital Computing, Springer Nature Switzerland
AG, Cham, 3<sup>rd</sup> edition 2020, 2 volumes, 2000 pages, 715
illustrations, 151 tables,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 3pt 17pt; text-indent: -17pt; line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"></span><span lang="DE-CH"><a href="https://www.springer.com/de/book/9783030409739"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:blue;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">https://www.springer.com/de/book/9783030409739</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><br></div><div>Best wishes,</div><div>Herbert Bruderer</div></signature><blockquote style="margin-right: 0px; margin-left:15px;">----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----<br>Von : CeruzziP@si.edu<br>Datum : 04/09/2020 - 19:25 (MS)<br>An : Troy.Astarte@newcastle.ac.uk, members@sigcis.org<br>Betreff : Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Request for biographies<br><br><style type="text/css" style="display: none;">P {
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Sorry if this response is too much. There are a lot of biographies about computer pioneers, but less so "computer scientists." I've left off autobiographies & memoirs but can supply a list if you wish. The following biographies tend to skew older, which is fine with me. Warning: the quality does vary:
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Very many thanks to everyone who has sent suggestions, I’ve got a great reading list! I’ve already had a look at a few of them, and there’s some high quality work indeed. The only further question I would have is whether there are biographies with a higher technical content? Perhaps that just isn’t common in biographies?
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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.
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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.
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