Engines of the Mind: The Evolution of the Computer from the Mainframes to Microprocessors

Joel N. Shurkin. W. W. Norton & Company, $13 (368pp) ISBN 978-0-393-31471-7

Shurkin traces the history of the computer, starting with earlier groundbreaking advances in mechanics and mathematics and tracing the construction of the first computer at the University of Pennsylvania during WW II. (Feb.)

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