Kidder, Tracy

The soul of a new machine Tracy Kidder - 1st pbk. ed - New York Back Bay Books 2000 - 293 p. ; 21 cm

Contents : Prologue : A good man in a storm -- 1. How to make a lot of money -- 2. The wars -- 3. Building a team -- 4. Wallach's golden moment -- 5. Midnight programmer -- 6. Flying upside down -- 7. La Machine -- 8. The wonderful micromachines -- 9. A workshop -- 10. The case of the missing NAND gate -- 11. Shorter than a season -- 12. Pinball -- 13. Going to the fair -- 14. The last crunch -- 15. Canards -- 16. Dinosaurs -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments

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