Wizards and their wonders - portraits in computing
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he exhibit opened in November, featuring speCially commissioned color portraits by photographer Louis Fabian Bachrach III that reveal the human faces behind the inventions of the computer age from the mouse and the microprocessor to applications software and the Internet. Underwritten by Goldman, Sachs & Company, Wizards and Their Wonders: Portraits in Computing introduces these visionaries in intimate profiles of their backgrounds and achievements.
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