Communications of the ACM
Beyond data mining; towards "idea engineering"
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Predictive Models in Software Engineering
Industrial scientific software: a set of interviews on software development
CASCON '13 Proceedings of the 2013 Conference of the Center for Advanced Studies on Collaborative Research
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A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2012In this revealing account of how the digital universe exploded in the aftermath of World War II, George Dyson illuminates the nature of digital computers, the lives of those who brought them into existence, and how code took over the world. In the 1940s and 50s, a small group of men and womenled by John von Neumanngathered in Princeton, New Jersey, to begin building one of the first computers to realize Alan Turings vision of a Universal Machine. The codes unleashed within this embryonic, 5-kilobyte universeless memory than is allocated to displaying a single icon on a computer screen todaybroke the distinction between numbers that mean things and numbers that do things, and our universe would never be the same. Turings Cathedral is the story of how the most constructive and most destructive of twentieth-century inventionsthe digital computer and the hydrogen bombemerged at the same time.