| Abstract: | The Reviews department features book reviews of Mike Hally's Electronic Brains: Stories from the Dawn of the Computer Age; David Leavitt's The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer; and Jim Holt's New Yorker article "Code Breaker: The Life and Death of Alan Turing"; Darren Wershler-Henry's The Iron Whim: A Fragmented History of Typewriting; JoAnne Yates' Structuring the Information Age: Life Insurance and Technology in the Twentieth Century; T.F. Peterson's Nightwork: A History of Hacks and Pranks at MIT; and Irene K. Fischer's Geodesy? What's That?. |
