In giving their computer an actual job to do--namely, the air defense of North America--the bright boys opened wide the digital doors to the future. In their old, brick laundry building on Massachusetts Avenue, this group of MIT twentysomethings presided over the birth of Information Technology. Today, any modern gizmo that operates with ones and zeros has a lineage that harkens back to the bright boys' inner sanctum of discovery and innovation.

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The bright boys of Cambridge owe much to the bright boys of Maxwell Field, Alabama where the idea of military command and control of fighter aircraft was first conjured into being and took flight.The Air Force's pursuit of 'real-time' command and control is the key that unlocked the door to the old laundry building. The singularly innovative culture of the Air Force, with its natural bent on pioneering air power through technology, provided the impetus.Both the bright boys in starched white shirts and those in uniform stuck together, sustained one other, and overcame daunting odds and adversities on their way to success. In so doing, they reinforced the notion that the human dimension is the true measure of great enterprise.

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So much of the bright boys' story has gone untold and so much of their true impact on the future unrecognized that I felt compelled to write about them. I wrote at first for myself, to make sense of it all, to tie all the loose ends together into a coherent picture of the bright boys and their world.

Cambridge was bursting its intellectual seams in 1949. The war was over, the Rad Lab crew had scattered, Norbert Weiner and Claude Shannon were blowing more than a few minds, Bob Noyce was dropping jaws at MIT with talk of transistors, the words digital and computer were being uttered side by side in the same sentence, and the Wursthaus was packing 'em in for good beer on the cheap, sausage, and algorithms scribbled on paper napkins. Something was in the air.

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