Leaders of the Information Age

If the names of Babbage and Bell, Marconi and Cray, Hewlett and Packard, and Turing and Watson evoke computing, electronics, and the world of information, readers will not be disappointed with this new biographical work from H.W. Wilson. Their reference stable of such things is well established, in electronic (e.g. Biography Reference Bank and World Authors) and print formats (e.g. Current Biography International Yearbook and Wilson Authors Series). More specifically, “the information age” evokes Vannevar Bush and Diebold, Licklider and Negroponte, Papert and Shannon, and they are in this new work too. The term “information age” is interpreted...