Lord Byron
This Long Pursuit: Reflections of a Romantic Biographer Richard Holmes Pantheon/An imprint of Penguin Random House (March 2017) “When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.” Erasmus The observation…
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Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science-and the World Rachel Swaby B/D/W/Y: Broadway Books (2015) “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” Helen Keller Do you already know that, during the last 100 years or so, many of the most…
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The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution Walter Isaacson Simon & Schuster (2014) For so many of those involved with collaborative, breakthrough innovations, “Bliss was in that dawn to be alive.” What we…
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The Forgotten Female Programmers Who Created Modern Tech
Jean Jennings (left) and Frances Bilas set up the ENIAC in 1946. Bilas is arranging the program settings on the Master Programmer, photo courtesy of University of Pennsylvania. * * * Here is a brief excerpt from an article by…
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