Turing's Cathedral

Discover the fascinating origins of the digital universe in "Turing's Cathedral". Author George Dyson takes readers back to the 1940s and '50s, where a small group of pioneers gathered to build one of the first computers to realize Alan Turing's vision of a Universal Machine. Learn how code took over the world and broke the distinction between numbers that mean things and numbers that do things. This revealing account explores the lives of those who brought computers into existence and the explosive aftermath of World War II that led to the birth of the digital age.