For the album by Fear Factory, see Soul of a New Machine.
The Soul of a New Machine
The Soul of a New Machine
Author
Tracy Kidder
Country
United States
Language
English
Subject
Computer engineering
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Publication date
July 1981
Media type
Hardcover
Pages
293 pp
ISBN
978-0-316-49170-9
OCLC
7551785
Dewey Decimal
621.3819/582 19
LC Class
TK7885.4 .K53
The Soul of a New Machine is a non-fiction book written by Tracy Kidder and published in 1981. It chronicles the experiences of a computer engineering team racing to design a next-generation computer at a blistering pace under tremendous pressure. The machine was launched in 1980 as the Data General Eclipse MV/8000.[1]
The book, whose author was described by the New York Times as having "elevated it to a high level of narrative art"[2] is "about real people working on a real computer for a real company,"[3] and it won the 1982 National Book Award for Nonfiction[4] and a Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction.
^"The Cathedral was a Computer". The New York Times. September 6, 1981.
^Samuel C. Florman (August 23, 1981). "The Hardy Boys And The Microkids Make A Computer". The New York Times.
^John W. Verity (October 1981). "The Soul of a New Machine, by Tracy Kidder". Datamation. pp. 225–226.
^
"National Book Awards – 1982". National Book Foundation. Retrieved February 21, 2012. This was the award for General Nonfiction (hardcover) during a period in National Book Awards history when there were many nonfiction subcategories.
and 25 Related for: The Soul of a New Machine information
Machine + Soul is the eleventh solo studio album by the English musician Gary Numan, released in 1992. It was a low point, released primarily to help...
bassists, Andrew Shives was hired as a live bassist prior to the release ofSoulofaNewMachine. SoulofaNewMachine (1992), which was recorded with producer...
ofthe field. In a review published in the Atlantic, James Fallows compared the book to Tracy Kidder's TheSoulofaNewMachine. At the time ofthe book's...
technologist. West is notable for being the key figure in the Pulitzer Prize winning non-fiction book TheSoulofaNewMachine. West began his career in computer...
traditions, thesoul is the non-material essence ofa person, which includes one's identity, personality, and memories, an immaterial aspect or essence ofa living...
lives. The books are widely varied, each with a different theme. Today, Chicken Soup for theSoul Publishing, LLC continues to publish about twelve new books...
following the 2005–2006 season, with a rerun package under the moniker The Best ofSoul Train airing for two years subsequently. As a nod to Soul Train's...
Disciples of Soul, intermittently active since the 1980s. In 2014, Van Zandt was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member ofthe E Street...
Soul music is a popular music genre that originated in the African American community throughout the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s....
during the late 1990s to market and describe a style of music that emerged from soul and contemporary R&B. Heavily based in soul music, neo soul is distinguished...
"Godfather ofSoul", "Mr. Dynamite", and "Soul Brother No. 1". In a career that lasted more than 50 years, he influenced the development of several music...
including music albums and a series of manga books in the Soulcalibur series. The first game in the series, Soul Edge (or Soul Blade outside Japan), was...
its direct competitors. In a 1970 survey, TheNew York Times suggested a consensus definition ofa minicomputer as amachine costing less than US$25,000...
automatons, or machines, to human beings. He denies dualism and the existence ofthesoul as a substance separate from matter. La Mettrie cites how the body and...
The following is a comprehensive list of characters from the Soulcalibur series of video games, beginning with Soul Edge (Soul Blade in PlayStation version)...
day ofthe tragedy, Wednesday November 22 and anew edition ofthe book It Is Well with My Soul: from tragedy to trust has also been published in the anniversary...
album, SoulofaNewMachine, was dedicated to Cazares' mother, Natividad, and older brother, Joey. Before starting Fear Factory, Cazares was in the grindcore...