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020			_a9780375422775 (hb)
082			_a004.09 _bDYS
100			_aDyson, George _910564
245			_aTuring's cathedral : _bthe origins of the digital universe
260			_aNew York _bPantheon Books _c2012
300			_axxii, 401p.
520			_a"It is possible to invent a single machine which can be used to compute any computable sequence,” twenty-four-year-old Alan Turing announced in 1936. In Turing’s Cathedral, George Dyson focuses on a small group of men and women, led by John von Neumann at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, who built one of the first computers to realize Alan Turing’s vision of a Universal Machine. Their work would break the distinction between numbers that mean things and numbers that do things—and our universe would never be the same. Using five kilobytes of memory (the amount allocated to displaying the cursor on a computer desktop of today), they achieved unprecedented success in both weather prediction and nuclear weapons design, while tackling, in their spare time, problems ranging from the evolution of viruses to the evolution of stars."
650			_aTuring machines _910565
650			_aRandom access memory _910566
650			_aComputable functions _96502
942			_cBK
999			_c9946 _d9946