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for SATB and organ Simon Biazeck has artfully arranged Dyson's
Evening Service in C minor for mixed voices, transposing the work
up a tone to better suit the SATB vocal ranges. The arrangement is
engaging and eminently singable, allowing this staple of the
repertoire to reach new choirs and audiences.
A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 How did we end up in a
world where humans coexist with technologies we can no longer fully
control or understand? George Dyson plots an unexpected course
through the past 300 years to reveal the hidden connections that
underpin our digital age, ending with a premonition of what lies
ahead. From an eighteenth-century Russian voyage across the North
Pacific, to the mirror signals that heralded the age of digital
telecommunications and the invention of the vacuum tube, Analogia
interweaves historical adventure with scientific insight in a
deeply personal story that frames the pursuit - and cost - of the
digital revolution in a captivating new light.
Suitable for unison voices with organ accompaniment.
George Dyson's fascinating account of the early years of computers:
Turing's Cathedral is the story behind how the PC, ipod, smartphone
and almost every aspect of modern life came into being. In 1945 a
small group of brilliant engineers and mathematicians gathered at
the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, determined to build
a computer that would make Alan Turing's theory of a 'universal
machine' reality. Led by the polymath emigre John von Neumann, they
created the numerical framework that underpins almost all modern
computing - and ensured that the world would never be the same
again. George Dyson is a historian of technology whose interests
include the development (and redevelopment) of the Aleut kayak. He
is the author of Baidarka; Project Orion; and Darwin Among the
Machines. 'Unusual, wonderful, visionary' Francis Spufford,
Guardian 'Fascinating . . . the story Dyson tells is intensely
human . . . a gripping account of ideas and inventionFascinating .
. . the story Dyson tells is intensely human . . . a gripping
account of ideas and invention' Jenny Uglow 'Glorious . . . as much
a story of the personalities involved as of the discoveries they
made, and you do not need any knowledge of computers or mathematics
to enjoy the ride . . . a ripping yarn' John Gribbin, Literary
Review
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
A "Wall Street Journal" Best Business Book of 2012
A "Kirkus Reviews" Best Book of 2012
In this revealing account of how the digital universe exploded in
the aftermath of World War II, George Dyson illuminates the nature
of digital computers, the lives of those who brought them into
existence, and how code took over the world.
In the 1940s and '50s, a small group of men and women--led by John
von Neumann--gathered in Princeton, New Jersey, to begin building
one of the first computers to realize Alan Turing's vision of a
Universal Machine. The codes unleashed within this embryonic,
5-kilobyte universe--less memory than is allocated to displaying a
single icon on a computer screen today--broke the distinction
between numbers that "mean" things and numbers that "do" things,
and our universe would never be the same. "Turing's Cathedral "is
the story of how the most constructive and most destructive of
twentieth-century inventions--the digital computer and the hydrogen
bomb--emerged at the same time.
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