The concept of this book is great, it is well written, and I would expect it to lead to an even better second edition. The key of the book is to both understand some great ideas AND communicate them. Sometimes it is good to read a simple description of an idea you already understand to improve your own ability to communicate that idea.
Most of the chapters take a discrete innovation and lead the reader along a relatively easy path to understanding the idea. Two chapters seemed to me to stand out as exceptions. Modern databases rest on many ideas, the database chapter felt distinctly less clean than the others as it wandered through some of those ideas. They certainly are great, important ideas, the descriptions seemed reasonable, but I preferred the discrete treatment of a single idea in other chapters. The other exception was the last chapter that discussed one of Allan Turing's ideas about the limitations of computer algorithms. I really liked this chapter and thought it was a brilliant way to wrap up the book.
John MacCormick deserves a great deal of credit for a good execution of a great idea.
Nine Algorithms that Changed the Future: The Ingenious Ideas that Drive Today's Computers: Princeton Science Library
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