Walter Isaacson's popular history of the people and inventions behind modern computing, from Ada Lovelace through the internet age, used here for pioneer biography and narrative context.
Facts
AuthorWalter Isaacson
PublisherSimon and Schuster
Publication Year2014
Source TypeAcademic History
Reliability Tier2
Credibility NotesA widely read popular history of computing, well sourced and reviewed, though written for a general audience rather than a specialist one. Strong on narrative and context, treated here as a secondary source alongside more specialist works.
Sources
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
Walter Isaacson, Simon and Schuster, 2014
Claims Backed By This Source (53 claims)
This source backs 53 claims across the atlas. As facts: 32 well-attested. As cited relationships: 2 holds, 11 connected. Plus 8 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Pioneers, 25 claims: 15 well-attested, 2 holds, 4 connected, 4 general references.
- Programming Languages, 11 claims: 7 well-attested, 2 connected, 2 general references.
- Concepts, 6 claims: 2 well-attested, 3 connected, 1 general references.
- Sources, 6 claims: 6 well-attested.
- Fields, 5 claims: 2 well-attested, 2 connected, 1 general references.
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