If Then - How One Data Company Invented the Future

Zusatztext A wonderfully written history of long-forgotten computer group Simulmatics. Informationen zum Autor Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History at Harvard University, where she teaches classes in evidence, historical methods, the humanities, and American political history. She is the author of The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity (winner of th e Bancroft Prize), New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan (a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), The Secret History of Wonder Woman (winner of the American History Book Prize), If Then (longlisted for the National Book Award) and many other titles. She is a staff writer at the New Yorker , host of the podcast The Last Archive, and was the winner of the Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought in 2021. Klappentext A brilliant, revelatory account of the Cold War origins of the data-mad, algorithmic twenty-first century, from the acclaimed and internationally bestselling author. Zusammenfassung A brilliant, revelatory account of the Cold War origins of the data-mad, algorithmic twenty-first century, from the acclaimed and internationally bestselling author.

Product details

• Authors: Jill Lepore
• Publisher: John Murray
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9781529386158
• ISBN: 978-1-5293-8615-8
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 238 mm x 40 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; Data Mining, Economics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Government & Business, Information technology industries, Politics & government, COMPUTERS / Data Science / Data Analytics