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The Cryotron Files

The Strange Death of a Pioneering Cold War Computer Scientist

Douglas Buck, Iain Dey

Dudley Buck was one of America’s leading computer scientists, the inventor of the superconducting chip Cryotron that promised ever-smaller computers, and coding systems vital to the space race. In May 1959, after top Soviet scientists visited his lab, he died suddenly. Co-written by his son, this book uses recently declassified documents and Buck’s own archive to explain the implications of his discoveries and question his cause of death.
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  • Publisher: Icon
  • Year: 2018
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 286pp
  • Illustrated: Yes
  • ISBN: 9781785784347
  • Condition: New
  • Weight: 0.6kg
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