Computer Science: An Illustrated History of the World's Smartest Machines (100 Ponderables) -- Tom Jackson, Hardcover

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Computer Science: An Illustrated History of the World's Smartest Machines (100 Ponderables) -- Tom Jackson, HardcoverHere is the essential guide to computers, an authoritative reference book and timeline about the most powerful tools ever devised. Computing has been the sharp end of cutting edge technology for a generation and it now permeates all our lives. But to many computer science remains something of a mystery. Our story begins long before the silicon chip, when the pinnacle of binary code was found in the Chinese I Ching, when Algorithm was a man from

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