The Soul of A New Machine

Tracy Kidder attended the University of Iowa after graduating from Harvard. He has received the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, Robert F. Kennedy Award, and numerous other literary honors. Kidder lives in Massachusetts and Maine and is the author of Mountains Beyond Mountains, My Detachment, Home Town, Old Friends, Among Schoolchildren, House, and The Soul of a New Machine.

The book is Tracy Kidder's "riveting" (Washington Post) story of one company's efforts to bring a new microprocessor to market that earned both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and it has since become required reading for anybody interested in the history of the American technology industry.

Since 1981, when The Soul of a New Machine first investigated the culture of the computer revolution, computers have evolved. What hasn't changed is the high-tech industry's frenetic speed, the go-for-broke business mentality that has led to so many computer businesses winning big (or going bankrupt), and the cult of pursuing mind-bending technological advancements.

Among the best books on computer science, The Soul of a New Machine is an important chapter in the history of the machine that changed the world in the twentieth century. "Interesting...A unexpectedly riveting account of people at work." —From the Wall Street Journal

Author: Tracy Kidder

Link to buy: https://www.amazon.com/Soul-New-Machine-Tracy-Kidder/dp/0316491977/

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#8 in Computing Industry History

#8 in Computer & Technology Biographies

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