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"Go To...is smooth, creamy, entertaining...delightful. It is a sort of Iliad for the computer age."--David Gelernter, New York Times . In Go To , Steve Lohr chronicles the history of software from the early days of complex mathematical codes mastered by a few thousand to today's era of... read more

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A LONE SAILBOAT IN THE DISTANCE makes its way across the ripple surface of Lake Washington in the crisp autumn dusk, framed on the horizon by the skyline of Seattle.

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  1. Steve Lohr (Author)
 

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