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Technology Historian George Dyson's "Definitive History of the Computer"

By Brad Yost
Published March 12, 2012 at 10:15 PM EDT

Distinguished science writer George Dyson’s newest book, Turing’s Cathedral, chronicles the Institute for Advanced Study in the 1940s and 1950s, when work on mathematician Alan Turing’s dream of a universal machine led to computers, digital television, modern genetics, and more.  Dyson will give a free public talk about Turing and the development of digital computing tonight* (Monday) at the Louisville Free Public Library.Prior to the public appearance, George Dyson

visited the WFPL studios to speak with Todd Mundt on Here and Now.

http://archive.wfpl.org/HereNow/20120312-dyson.mp3
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Brad Yost is a senior producer for LPM. Email Brad at byost@lpm.org.
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