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  First Edition of The Innovators; Signed by Walter Isaacson, Internet Pioneers Vint Cerf, Robert Kahn, Leonard Kleinrock, Tim Berners-Lee, and Linus Torvalds

  ISAACSON, Walter [Vint Cerf; Leonard Kleinrock; Robert Kahn; Tim Berners-Lee; Linus Torvalds].

  The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution.

  New York: Simon & Schuster, 2014.

  First edition of this sweeping history of the computer and the Internet, signed by Isaacson and several legendary internet pioneers. Octavo, original publisher's half-cloth, circuit board endpapers, illustrated throughout. Presentation copy, inscribed on the title page by Walter Isaacson, Vint Cerf, and Robert Kahn, "To Ken." Boldly signed on the title page by Leonard Kleinrock, Tim Berners-Lee, and Linus Torvalds. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Pete Garceau. Vint Cerf, Leonard Kleinrock, Robert Kahn, Tim Berners-Lee, and Linus Torvalds collectively constitute the most consequential group of technologists in the history of the modern internet, their individual contributions forming the successive layers of infrastructure, protocol, application, and software upon which virtually every aspect of contemporary digital life depends. Kleinrock, whose doctoral dissertation at MIT in 1962 developed the mathematical theory of packet switching that made digital networks possible, laid the theoretical foundation upon which all subsequent work rested, and his UCLA laboratory transmitted the first message over ARPANET on October 29, 1969. Cerf and Kahn, working together at DARPA in the early 1970s, co-designed the Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol, TCP/IP, t...

  Price: $6,500.00     Item Number: 152132

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