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woodson · 2010-01-19 · Original thread
I recommend the following. Don't know why, but after I read a biography on Oppenheimer I just had to read this too.

Aspray, William (1990) John von Neumann and the origins of modern computing. MIT Press. (http://www.amazon.com/Neumann-Origins-Modern-Computing-Histo...)

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