<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Not to throw yet another title at an already overflowing list but Tara Abraham's biography of Warren McCulloch "Rebel Genius" is quite excellent and well worth a read. Also, Helene Mialet's "Hawking Incorporated" can be read really usefully as a new method for doing biography.<div><br></div><div>Jeff</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Sep 4, 2020 at 1:25 PM Ceruzzi, Paul <<a href="mailto:CeruzziP@si.edu">CeruzziP@si.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">




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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
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Howard Aiken: Portrait of a Computer Pioneer<u></u> <u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Alan Turing: The enigma: the extraordinary story of the brilliant scientist…<u></u> <u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Think: A Biography of the Watsons and IBM<u></u> <u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">The Man Who Invented the Computer: The Biography of John Atanasoff, Digital Pioneer<u></u> <u></u></span></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, September 4, 2020 9:06 AM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Request for biographies</font>
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<div>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
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<div>On 3 Sep 2020, at 12:31, Troy Astarte <<a href="mailto:Troy.Astarte@newcastle.ac.uk" target="_blank">Troy.Astarte@newcastle.ac.uk</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div>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>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>
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