Where Wizards Stay Up Late

Where Wizards Stay Up Late
Author: Matthew Lyon
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 305
Release: 1999-08-19
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0684872161

Twenty five years ago, it didn't exist. Today, twenty million people worldwide are surfing the Net. Where Wizards Stay Up Late is the exciting story of the pioneers responsible for creating the most talked about, most influential, and most far-reaching communications breakthrough since the invention of the telephone. In the 1960's, when computers where regarded as mere giant calculators, J.C.R. Licklider at MIT saw them as the ultimate communications devices. With Defense Department funds, he and a band of visionary computer whizzes began work on a nationwide, interlocking network of computers. Taking readers behind the scenes, Where Wizards Stay Up Late captures the hard work, genius, and happy accidents of their daring, stunningly successful venture.

A Companion to Art Theory

A Companion to Art Theory
Author: Paul Smith
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 552
Release: 2008-04-15
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0470998423

The Companion provides an accessible critical survey of Western visual art theory from sources in Classical, Medieval and Renaissance thought through to contemporary writings.