Contents
Introduction
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1 Gaylord
2 Ann Arbor
3 The Room-Sized Brain
4 MIT
5 A Decidedly Unconventional Type of Youngster
6 Cold Spring Harbor
7 The Labs
8 Princeton
9 Fire Control
10 A Six-Day Workweek
11 The Unspeakable System
12 Turing
13 Manhattan
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14 The Utter Dark
15 From Intelligence to Information
16 The Bomb
17 Building a Bandwagon
18 Mathematical Intentions, Honorable and Otherwise
19 Wiener
20 A Transformative Year
21 TMI
22 “We Urgently Need the Assistance of Dr. Claude E. Shannon”
23 The Man-Machines
24 The Game of Kings
25 Constructive Dissatisfaction
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26 Professor Shannon
27 Inside Information
28 A Gadgeteer’s Paradise
29 Peculiar Motions
30 Kyoto
31 The Illness
32 Aftershocks
Photographs
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Illustration Credits
Notes
Bibliography
Index