Home›Sources›The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital RevolutionSourcesThe Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital RevolutionCitation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextComputing Atlas. "The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-computing.interactiveatlas.org/sources/the-innovators-isaacson.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextComputing Atlas. (n.d.). The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-computing.interactiveatlas.org/sources/the-innovators-isaacsonCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{computingatlas-the-innovators-how-a-group-of-hackers-ge, author = {Computing Atlas}, title = {The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution}, year = {2026}, url = {https://dev-computing.interactiveatlas.org/sources/the-innovators-isaacson}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXReference and ClassificationDevelopingWalter Isaacson's popular history of the people and inventions behind modern computing, from Ada Lovelace through the internet age, used here for pioneer biography and narrative context.FactsSourcesClaims Backed By This Source (55 claims)Comments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)FactsAuthorWell-attestedWalter IsaacsonPublisherWell-attestedSimon and SchusterPublication YearWell-attested2014Source TypeWell-attestedAcademic HistoryReliability TierWell-attested2Credibility NotesWell-attestedA widely read popular history of computing, well sourced and reviewed, though written for a general audience rather than a specialist one. Strong on narrative and context, treated here as a secondary source alongside more specialist works.SourcesThe Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolutiontier 2Walter Isaacson, Simon and Schuster, 2014Claims Backed By This Source (55 claims)This source backs 55 claims across the atlas. As facts: 34 well-attested. As cited relationships: 2 holds, 11 connected. Plus 8 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.Disposition By TopicPioneers, 25 claims: 15 well-attested, 2 holds, 4 connected, 4 general references.Languages, 13 claims: 9 well-attested, 2 connected, 2 general references.Concepts, 6 claims: 2 well-attested, 3 connected, 1 general references.Sources, 6 claims: 6 well-attested.Fields, 5 claims: 2 well-attested, 2 connected, 1 general references.Well-attested34ConceptsObject Oriented ProgrammingFieldsArtificial IntelligenceLanguagesCOBOLLispPioneersAda LovelaceClaude ShannonGrace HopperJohn McCarthySourcesThe Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital RevolutionHolds2PioneersGrace HopperJohn McCarthyConnected11ConceptsAlgorithmFunctional ProgrammingObject Oriented ProgrammingFieldsArtificial IntelligenceCryptographyLanguagesCOBOLLispPioneersAda LovelaceGrace HopperGeneral References8ConceptsObject Oriented ProgrammingFieldsArtificial IntelligenceLanguagesCOBOLLispPioneersAda LovelaceClaude ShannonGrace HopperJohn McCarthyComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearThe atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.Show This Year