Margaret O'Mara
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The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America
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2019
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4 editions
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Pivotal Tuesdays: Four Elections That Shaped the Twentieth Century
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2015
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7 editions
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The American Pageant
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2010
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9 editions
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Cities of Knowledge: Cold War Science and the Search for the Next Silicon Valley
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2004
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10 editions
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The American Pageant, Volume I
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2004
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8 editions
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Defining the Age: Daniel Bell, His Time and Ours
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The Long Year: A 2020 Reader
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The American Pageant, Volume 2
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“The Boston-born and Los Angeles–raised son of a labor organizer, McCarthy had the soul of a radical and the mind of a scientist. He had graduated high school two years ahead of schedule and earned degrees from Cal Tech and Princeton before joining the faculty of Dartmouth. Of the many scholars entranced by the computer’s potential to imitate and complement the human brain, McCarthy was the one who in 1955 put a name to the phenomenon and the field of research that rose around it: “artificial intelligence.”
― The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America
― The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America
“Good ideas and good products are a dime a dozen,” he later explained. “Good execution and good management—in a word, good people—are rare.”
― The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America
― The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America
“Thus, at the same time that Fred Terman was turning the Farm into the nation’s most entrepreneurial technical university, Glenn Campbell was making the campus home to an all-star roster of conservative thinkers and politicians—undeterred by the periodic angst they stirred up in the more liberal campus precincts surrounding Hoover Tower.”
― The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America
― The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America
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