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  • The Innovation in Computing Companion: A Compendium of Select, Pivotal Inventions by O'Regan, Gerard
    Gerard O'Regan

    The Innovation in Computing Companion: A Compendium of Select, Pivotal Inventions

    This encyclopedic reference provides a concise and engaging overview of the groundbreaking inventions and conceptual innovations that have shaped the field of computing, and the technology that runs the modern world. Each alphabetically-ordered entry presents a brief account of a pivotal innovation and the...
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  • Exploring the Early Digital by Haigh, Thomas
    Thomas Haigh

    Exploring the Early Digital

    Changes in the present challenge us to reinterpret the past, but historians have not yet come to grips with the convergence of computing, media, and communications technology. Today these things are inextricably intertwined, in technologies such as the smartphone and internet, in convergent industries,...
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  • From Urban Legends to Political Fact-Checking: Online Scrutiny in America, 1990-2015 by Aspray, William
    William Aspray

    From Urban Legends to Political Fact-Checking: Online Scrutiny in America, 1990-2015

    This text presents an historical examination of political fact-checking, highlighting how this is part of a larger phenomenon of online scrutiny that manifests itself in multiple forms. Reflecting the long history of "fake facts" in America, the book discusses important developments in this area...
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  • Poc or Gtfo, Volume 2 by Laphroaig, Manul
    Manul Laphroaig

    Poc or Gtfo, Volume 2

    PoC or GTFO, Volume 2 follows-up the wildly popular first volume with issues 9-13 of the eponymous hacker zine. Contributions range from humorous poems to deeply technical essays. The International Journal of Proof-of-Concept or Get The Fuck Out is a celebrated magazine of reverse...
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  • Breaking Windows: How Bill Gates Fumbled the Future of Microsoft by Bank, David
    David Bank

    Breaking Windows: How Bill Gates Fumbled the Future of Microsoft

    The year is 1997, and despite the machinations of its rivals, Microsoft is master of the digital universe and the darling of corporate America. Windows and Office generate staggering profits, the company's share price is stratospheric, and Bill Gates is the preeminent icon of...
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  • Moving Innovation: A History of Computer Animation by Sito, Tom
    Tom Sito

    Moving Innovation: A History of Computer Animation

    A behind-the-scenes history of computer graphics, featuring a cast of math nerds, avant-garde artists, cold warriors, hippies, video game players, and studio executives.Computer graphics (or CG) has changed the way we experience the art of moving images. Computer graphics is the difference between Steamboat...
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  • Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks by Shapiro, Scott J.
    Scott J. Shapiro

    Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks

    "Unsettling, absolutely riveting, and--for better or worse--necessary reading." --Brian Christian, author of Algorithms to Live By and The Alignment ProblemAn entertaining account of the philosophy and technology of hacking--and why we all need to understand it. It's a signal paradox of our times that...
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  • The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia by Lih, Andrew
    Andrew Lih

    The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia

    Author: Andrew LihISBN-10: 8200125181ISBN-13: 9798200125180Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/20/2009Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.22lbs
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  • Algorithmic Barriers Falling: P=np? by Knuth, Donald E.
    Donald E. Knuth

    Algorithmic Barriers Falling: P=np?

    "A prize of $10 from Blum, $10 from Meyer, 4 from Paterson and 30-DM from Schnorr is offered to anyone who first solves the Cook-Karp problem whether P = NP. Blum bet $100 that P = NP against Paterson's $1 that P = NP."...
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  • Retrogame Archeology: Exploring Old Computer Games by Aycock, John
    John Aycock

    Retrogame Archeology: Exploring Old Computer Games

    Drawing on extensive research, this book explores the techniques that old computer games used to run on tightly-constrained platforms. Retrogame developers faced incredible challenges of limited space, computing power, rudimentary tools, and the lack of homogeneous environments. Using examples from over 100 retrogames, this...
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  • Supercade: A Visual History of the Videogame Age 1971-1984 by Burnham, Van
    Van Burnham

    Supercade: A Visual History of the Videogame Age 1971-1984

    A gloriously illustrated history of the videogame and its legacy for both our mindscapes and video technology.It was a time when technology was king, status was determined by your high score, and videogames were blitzing the world... From Pong to Pac-Man, Asteroids to Zaxxon--more...
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  • Poc or Gtfo by Laphroaig, Manul
    Manul Laphroaig

    Poc or Gtfo

    This highly anticipated print collection gathers articles published in the much-loved International Journal of Proof-of-Concept or Get The Fuck Out. PoCGTFO follows in the tradition of Phrack and Uninformed by publishing on the subjects of offensive security research, reverse engineering, and file format internals....
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  • Beyond Deep Blue: Chess in the Stratosphere by Newborn, Monty
    Monty Newborn

    Beyond Deep Blue: Chess in the Stratosphere

    More than a decade has passed since IBM's Deep Blue computer stunned the world by defeating Garry Kasparov, the world chess champion at that time. Following Deep Blue's retirement, there has been a succession of better and better chess playing computers, or chess engines,...
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  • The 100 Greatest Commodore 64 Games by Crossland, Tom
    Tom Crossland

    The 100 Greatest Commodore 64 Games

    The Commodore 64 was an incredible piece of tech for its time and left a generation with enough happy and nostalgic gaming memories to last a lifetime. Are C64 games still worth playing today - even if you have all the latest modern releases?...
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  • The 100 Greatest MSDOS Games by Crossland, Tom
    Tom Crossland

    The 100 Greatest MSDOS Games

    MS-DOS games encompassed the 1980s and 1990s and are regarded to be a golden era for home gaming. How could it not be a golden era with games like Doom, Quake, The Secret of Monkey Island, Star Wars: X-Wing, and so on? The DOS...
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  • Behind Deep Blue: Building the Computer That Defeated the World Chess Champion by Hsu, Feng-Hsiung
    Feng-Hsiung Hsu

    Behind Deep Blue: Building the Computer That Defeated the World Chess Champion

    On May 11, 1997, as millions worldwide watched a stunning victory unfold on television, a machine shocked the chess world by defeating the defending world champion, Garry Kasparov. Written by the man who started the adventure, Behind Deep Blue reveals the inside story of...
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  • A History of Fake Things on the Internet by Scheirer, Walter
    Walter Scheirer

    A History of Fake Things on the Internet

    A Next Big Idea Club "Must Read" for December 2023 As all aspects of our social and informational lives increasingly migrate online, the line between what is "real" and what is digitally fabricated grows ever thinner--and that fake content has undeniable real-world consequences. A...
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  • Artificial Intelligence - Story & History by Al Ameri, Safa
    Safa Al Ameri

    Artificial Intelligence - Story & History

    The compelling first part, that looks at the history and future of the relationship between Artificial Intelligence and humans, in the AI Insights series!This book will not only educate you on all things AI, but it will also create an awareness of how such...
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  • Cyber and the City: Securing London's Banks in the Computer Age by Sweetman, Ashley
    Ashley Sweetman

    Cyber and the City: Securing London's Banks in the Computer Age

    Cyber security is the greatest risk faced by financial institutions today, a risk they have understood and managed for decades longer than is commonly understood. Ever since the major London banks purchased their first computers in the early 1960s, they have had to balance...
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  • A Concise Introduction to Scientific Visualization: Past, Present, and Future by Hollister, Brad Eric
    Brad Eric Hollister

    A Concise Introduction to Scientific Visualization: Past, Present, and Future

    Scientific visualization has always been an integral part of discovery, starting first with simplified drawings of the pre-Enlightenment and progressing to present day. Mathematical formalism often supersedes visual methods, but their use is at the core of the mental process. As historical examples, a...
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  • Hacker Culture A to Z: A Fun Guide to the Fundamentals of Cybersecurity and Hacking by Crawley, Kim
    Kim Crawley

    Hacker Culture A to Z: A Fun Guide to the People, Ideas, and Gadgets That Made the Tech World

    Hacker culture can be esoteric, but this entertaining reference is here to help. Written by longtime cybersecurity researcher and writer Kim Crawley, this fun reference introduces you to key people and companies, fundamental ideas, and milestone films, games, and magazines in the annals of...
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  • Symbolic Interactionism (Rle Social Theory): Genesis, Varieties and Criticism by Meltzer, Bernard
    Bernard Meltzer

    Symbolic Interactionism (Rle Social Theory): Genesis, Varieties and Criticism

    Symbolic interactionsim is of major importance in contemporary sociology. In this study, three authorities in the field collaborate to define symbolic interactionism and to describe, and present criticism of, the interactionist perspective. The contributions of G.H. Mead, J. Dewey, C.H. Cooley, W.I. Thomas and...
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  • Grateful Geek: 50 Years of Apple and Other Tech Adventures by Gassée, Jean-Louis
    Jean-Louis Gass馥

    Grateful Geek: 50 Years of Apple and Other Tech Adventures

    For tech past 20+ years, everyone has been waiting for the story to be told. What really happened at Apple when Jobs returned and Gassee was out? In this first ever comprehensive memoir, Gassee doesn't hold anything back. From his stellar career to his...
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  • Communities of Computing: Computer Science and Society in the ACM by Misa, Thomas J.
    Thomas J. Misa

    Communities of Computing: Computer Science and Society in the ACM

    Communities of Computing is the first book-length history of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), founded in 1947 and with a membership today of 100,000 worldwide. It profiles ACM's notable SIGs, active chapters, and individual members, setting ACM's history into a rich social and...
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  • Damn Computers by Eichler, John B.
    John B. Eichler

    Damn Computers

    Today computers are ubiquitous and number in the billions worldwide. They are programmed by growing millions of programmers covering all age groups for a wide range of applications never dreamed of when computers were initially invented. But it has not always been this way....
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  • The Quantum Dot: A Journey Into the Future of Microelectronics by Turton, Richard
    Richard Turton

    The Quantum Dot: A Journey Into the Future of Microelectronics

    Since first developed in the early sixties, silicon chip technology has made vast leaps forward. From a rudimentary circuit with a mere handful of transistors, the chip has evolved into a technological miracle, packing millions of bits of information on a surface no larger...
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  • Digital Is Destroying Everything: What the Tech Giants Won't Tell You about How Robots, Big Data, and Algorithms Are Radically Remaking Your Future by Edwards, Andrew V.
    Andrew V. Edwards

    Digital Is Destroying Everything: What the Tech Giants Won't Tell You about How Robots, Big Data, and Algorithms Are Radically Remaking Your Future

    Every year, perhaps even every week, there is some new gadget, device, service, or other digital offering intended to make our lives easier, better, more fun, or more instantaneous--making it that much harder to question how anything digital can be bad for us. Digital...
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  • A History of the Computer Industry: From Relay Computers to the IBM PC by Lindfors, Stephen
    Stephen Lindfors

    A History of the Computer Industry: From Relay Computers to the IBM PC

    The book is a short history of the computer industry, starting with relay computers and ending with the IBM PC, introduced in 1981. Before digital computers, there were digital switching systems, used by the phone companies, made with relays. With the earliest digital computers,...
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  • The Devouring Fungus: Tales of the Computer Age by Jennings, Karla
    Karla Jennings

    The Devouring Fungus: Tales of the Computer Age

    Are you someone who'd use a RAM chip as fertilizer? Do you think that the best way to boot up a computer is with a steel toe? Then The Devouring Fungus is the book for you. Anyone who's ever had anything to do with...
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  • SuperBASIC: For the TRS-80 Color Computer by Stratton, Jerry
    Jerry Stratton

    SuperBASIC: For the TRS-80 Color Computer

    Do you want to write BASIC programs for your Color Computer, but don't want to deal with two-character variables and the complete lack of structure in old-school BASIC? Consider superBASIC. Use loops, multi-line if/else/endifs, include files, and more. You can even use the same...
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  • The Physics of Computing by Gammaitoni, Luca
    Luca Gammaitoni

    The Physics of Computing

    This book presents a self-contained introduction to the physics of computing, by addressing the fundamental underlying principles that involve the act of computing, regardless of the actual machine that is used to compute. Questions like "what is the minimum energy required to perform a...
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  • The Computer by Müller, Jens
    Jens M?ler

    The Computer. a History from the 17th Century to Today

    The story of the evolution of machines in computer history is full of the disruptive innovations that have led to today's world. From the early beginnings of computing to the bulky mainframe to the personal computer era, we now live in an almost entirely...
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  • The Computer - My Life by Bauer, F. L.
    Konrad Zuse

    The Computer - My Life

    Konrad Zuse is one of the great pioneers of the computer age. He created the first stored-program computer in 1941 and continued to build machines for a quarter-century, as well as writing books and articles. This is his autobiography - lively, witty, full of...
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  • The IBM Century: Creating the IT Revolution by Yost, Jeffrey R.
    Jeffrey R. Yost

    The IBM Century: Creating the IT Revolution

    More than a century ago Herman Hollerith pioneered punch card tabulation technology. In 1911 his enterprise became the centerpiece of a new corporation (renamed in the 1920s), International Business Machines (IBM). Over the past century IBM has transformed how we record, calculate, and process...
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  • Elon Musk by Isaacson, Walter
    Walter Isaacson

    Elon Musk

    #1 New York Times bestseller From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate story of the most fascinating and controversial innovator of our era--a rule-breaking visionary who helped to lead the world into the era of electric...
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  • The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal by Nooney, Laine
    Laine Nooney

    The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal

    An engrossing origin story for the personal computer--showing how the Apple II's software helped a machine transcend from hobbyists' plaything to essential home appliance. Skip the iPhone, the iPod, and the Macintosh. If you want to understand how Apple Inc. became an industry behemoth,...
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  • The Computer by Müller, Jens
    Jens M?ler

    The Computer. a History from the 17th Century to Today

    The story of the evolution of machines in computer history is full of the disruptive innovations that have led to today's world. From the early beginnings of computing to the bulky mainframe to the personal computer era, we now live in an almost entirely...
    $80.00
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  • Necessary But Not Sufficient: A Theory of Constraints Business Novel by Goldratt, Eliyahu M.
    Eliyahu M. Goldratt

    Necessary But Not Sufficient: A Theory of Constraints Business Novel

    Author: Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Eli Shragenheim, Eliyagy M Goldratt Eli SchragenheimISBN-10: 0884271706ISBN-13: 9780884271703Publisher: North River PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/03/2005Pages: 231Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70d
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  • Empire of the Sum: The Rise and Reign of the Pocket Calculator by Houston, Keith
    Keith Houston

    Empire of the Sum: The Rise and Reign of the Pocket Calculator

    Starting with hands, abacus, and slide rule, humans have always reached for tools to simplify math. Pocket-sized calculators ushered in modern mathematics, helped build the atomic bomb, took us to the bottom of the ocean, and accompanied us to the moon. The pocket calculator...
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  • Silicon Planet: My Life in Computer Chips by Hays, Pat
    Pat Hays

    Silicon Planet: My Life in Computer Chips

    A developer's account of the breakthroughs and battles that made computer chips the foundation of our world.Computer chips, like sand and water, now cover the earth. Each year, more than 60 billion computer chips are shipped inside smartphones, data centers, cars, airplanes, refrigerators, and...
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  • Prophets of Computing: Visions of Society Transformed by Computing by Van Lente, Dick
    Dick Van Lente

    Prophets of Computing: Visions of Society Transformed by Computing

    When electronic digital computers first appeared after World War II, they appeared as a revolutionary force. Business management, the world of work, administrative life, the nation state, and soon enough everyday life were expected to change dramatically with these machines' use. Ever since, diverse...
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  • The Computer: A Brief History of the Machine That Changed the World by Swedin, Eric G.
    Eric G. Swedin

    The Computer: A Brief History of the Machine That Changed the World

    This book, aimed at general readers, covers the entirety of computing history from antiquity to the present, placing the story of computing into the broader context of politics, economics, society, and more. Computers dominate the world we live in, and this book describes how...
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  • Elon Musk by Isaacson, Walter
    Walter Isaacson

    Elon Musk

    #1 New York Times bestseller From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate story of the most fascinating and controversial innovator of our era--a rule-breaking visionary who helped to lead the world into the era of electric...
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  • History of Computer Graphics: Dlr Associates Series by Ryan, Dan
    Dan Ryan

    History of Computer Graphics: Dlr Associates Series

    This book reflects the many changes that computer graphics technology has under gone in my working life time. I graduated from a teachers college in 1963. There was not a computer of any kind on campus, imagine my shock when my very first college...
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  • The Gambler and the Scholars: Herbert Yardley, William & Elizebeth Friedman, and the Birth of Modern American Cryptology by Dooley, John F.
    John F. Dooley

    The Gambler and the Scholars: Herbert Yardley, William & Elizebeth Friedman, and the Birth of Modern American Cryptology

    In May 1917, William and Elizebeth Friedman were asked by the U.S. Army to begin training officers in cryptanalysis and to decrypt intercepted German diplomatic and military communications. In June 1917, Herbert Yardley convinced the new head of the Army's Military Intelligence Division to...
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  • Computer Architecture by Fox, Charles
    Charles Fox

    Computer Architecture

    Not since the 1980s has computer architecture been so exciting! This book captures the moment, mining the history of computing to teach key concepts in modern hardware design and introduce the neural and quantum architectures of the future. Computer Architecture is an in-depth exploration...
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  • Prophets of Computing: Visions of Society Transformed by Computing by Van Lente, Dick
    Dick Van Lente

    Prophets of Computing: Visions of Society Transformed by Computing

    When electronic digital computers first appeared after World War II, they appeared as a revolutionary force. Business management, the world of work, administrative life, the nation state, and soon enough everyday life were expected to change dramatically with these machines' use. Ever since, diverse...
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  • Balkan Cyberia: Cold War Computing, Bulgarian Modernization, and the Information Age Behind the Iron Curtain by Petrov, Victor
    Victor Petrov

    Balkan Cyberia: Cold War Computing, Bulgarian Modernization, and the Information Age Behind the Iron Curtain

    "Original take on the history of socialist Bulgaria, examined through the prism of computers to make broader claims about political, economic, intelligence, social, and cultural life in Bulgaria, and by extension, the Soviet bloc and state socialism in general"--Author: Victor PetrovISBN-10: 0262545128ISBN-13: 9780262545129Publisher: MIT...
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  • When Computers Were Human by Grier, David Alan
    David Alan Grier

    When Computers Were Human

    Before Palm Pilots and iPods, PCs and laptops, the term "computer" referred to the people who did scientific calculations by hand. These workers were neither calculating geniuses nor idiot savants but knowledgeable people who, in other circumstances, might have become scientists in their own...
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  • Code Nation: Personal Computing and the Learn to Program Movement in America by Halvorson, Michael J.
    Michael J. Halvorson

    Code Nation: Personal Computing and the Learn to Program Movement in America

    Code Nation explores the rise of software development as a social, cultural, and technical phenomenon in American history. The movement germinated in government and university labs during the 1950s, gained momentum through corporate and counterculture experiments in the 1960s and 1970s, and became a...
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