"Go to" chronicles the untold history of software and its maverick creators. Drawing upon original reporting and interviews, Steve Lohr gives us an intimate portrait of the peculiar kind of genius that has always been drawn to this unique blend of art, science, and engineering - imaginative originals like Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie, whose all- night stints gave rise to the Unix operating system and C programming language that loosened the grip of IBM; Charles Simonyi, whose childhood as an Erector- set fanatic in Communist Hungary led to his becoming the émigré architect of the spectacularly successful Word software; and James Gosling, whose dream of "virtual code" that could run on any machine, became Java, the Internet programming language.