David Kalat
BRG
A Paperwork Crisis forced Wall Street to change the way it did business, ushering in automation and hastening the business world's transition to the Computer Age.
Google's reputation for April Fools' Day jokes inclined many to assume the 2004 announcement of Gmail was yet another gag. In later interviews, Sergey Brin said the best form of an April Fools' prank would be to debut something that sounded so crazy it had to be a joke, and then let it sink in that the service was real and here to stay.
How nineteenth-century Boolean math was encoded as machine logic and became a building block of digital electronics, ushering in the Information Age.
The unexpected story of a mathematician and computer scientist who had to convert a treatise on computer programming from traditional typeset to digital text, revolutionizng software in the process.
