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  • Cult of the Dead Cow by Menn, Joseph
    Joseph Menn

    Cult of the Dead Cow

    Author: Joseph MennISBN-10: 1541724429ISBN-13: 9781541724426Publisher: PublicAffairsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/04/2019Pages: 274Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.76lbsSize: 9.25h x 6.00w x 0.68d
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  • Birth of an Industry, Computers in the Early Years by Denk, Gene
    Gene Denk

    Birth of an Industry, Computers in the Early Years

    Today almost everyone has at least one computer and people can check their email or surf the internet from their phones. In the early days of computing, computers were the size of a large rooms, there was no internet, and programming was either hard-wired...
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  • Ada's Legacy: Cultures of Computing from the Victorian to the Digital Age by Hammerman, Robin
    Robin Hammerman

    Ada's Legacy: Cultures of Computing from the Victorian to the Digital Age

    Ada's Legacy illustrates the depth and diversity of writers, thinkers, and makers who have been inspired by Ada Lovelace, the English mathematician and writer. The volume, which commemorates the bicentennial of Ada's birth in December 1815, celebrates Lovelace's many achievements as well as the...
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  • Transforming Computer Technology: Information Processing for the Pentagon, 1962-1986 by Norberg, Arthur L.
    Arthur L. Norberg

    Transforming Computer Technology: Information Processing for the Pentagon, 1962-1986

    Winner of the Association of American Publishers Professional and Scholarly Publishing Award for Computer ScienceOver the course of several decades, the Pentagon's Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO) helped transform computing from a cumbersome enterprise based on batch processing to the instantly interactive, graphically rich,...
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  • The Computer - My Life by Bauer, F. L.
    F. L. Bauer

    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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  • 50 Years of Text Games: From Oregon Trail to AI Dungeon by Reed, Aaron a.
    Aaron a. Reed

    50 Years of Text Games: From Oregon Trail to AI Dungeon

    Author: Aaron a. ReedISBN-10: 8985966111ISBN-13: 9798985966114Publisher: Changeful TalesLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/2023Pages: 642Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.76lbsSize: 10.00h x 8.00w x 1.29d
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  • 50 Years of Text Games: From Oregon Trail to AI Dungeon by Reed, Aaron a.
    Aaron a. Reed

    50 Years of Text Games: From Oregon Trail to AI Dungeon

    Author: Aaron a. ReedISBN-10: 8985966103ISBN-13: 9798985966107Publisher: Changeful TalesLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/2023Pages: 642Format: HardcoverWeight: 3.32lbsSize: 10.00h x 8.00w x 1.38d
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  • Konrad Zuse's Early Computers: The Quest for the Computer in Germany by Rojas, Raúl
    Raúl Rojas

    Konrad Zuse's Early Computers: The Quest for the Computer in Germany

    This book describes the historical development of the architectures of the first computers built by the German inventor Konrad Zuse in Berlin between 1936 and 1945. Zuse's machines are historically important because they anticipated many features of modern computers. Specifically, these include the separation...
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  • ORIC-1 Basic Programming Manual by Scriven, John
    John Scriven

    ORIC-1 Basic Programming Manual

    The Oric-1 8-bit home computer was released in 1982 and would go on to sell more than 150,000 units in the UK alone. It was considered a rival to the popular ZX Spectrum, with its advantage being a much better keyboard than Sir Clive's...
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  • Worm: The First Digital World War by Bowden, Mark
    Mark Bowden

    Worm: The First Digital World War

    The Conficker worm infected its first computer in November 2008 and within a month had infiltrated 1.5 million computers in 195 countries. Banks, telecommunications companies, and critical government networks (including the British Parliament and the French and German military) were infected. No one had...
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  • Your Computer Is on Fire by Mullaney, Thomas S.
    Thomas S. Mullaney

    Your Computer Is on Fire

    Technology scholars declare an emergency: attention must be paid to the inequality, marginalization, and biases woven into our technological systems. This book sounds an alarm: we can no longer afford to be lulled into complacency by narratives of techno-utopianism, or even techno-neutrality. We should...
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  • Attract Mode: The Rise and Fall of Coin-Op Arcade Games by Lendino, Jamie
    Jamie Lendino

    Attract Mode: The Rise and Fall of Coin-Op Arcade Games

    From their haunts in the shadowy corner of a bar, front and center at a convenience store, or reigning over a massive mall installation bursting with light, sound, and action, arcade games have been thrilling and addicting quarter-bearers of all ages ever since Pong...
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  • Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary by Torvalds, Linus
    Linus Torvalds

    Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary

    Once upon a time Linus Torvalds was a skinny unknown, just another nerdy Helsinki techie who had been fooling around with computers since childhood. Then he wrote a groundbreaking operating system and distributed it via the Internet -- for free. Today Torvalds is an...
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  • Software: A Technical History by Tracy, Kim W.
    Kim W. Tracy

    Software: A Technical History

    Software history has a deep impact on current software designers, computer scientists, and technologists. System constraints imposed in the past and the designs that responded to them are often unknown or poorly understood by students and practitioners, yet modern software systems often include "old"...
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  • Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe by Dyson, George
    George Dyson

    Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe

    A Wall Street Journal Best Business Book of 2012A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2012In this revealing account of how the digital universe exploded in the aftermath of World War II, George Dyson illuminates the nature of digital computers, the lives of those who...
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  • The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer by Leavitt, David
    David Leavitt

    The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer

    To solve one of the great mathematical problems of his day, Alan Turing proposed an imaginary computer. Then, attempting to break a Nazi code during World War II, he successfully designed and built one, thus ensuring the Allied victory. Turing became a champion of...
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  • Image Objects: An Archaeology of Computer Graphics by Gaboury, Jacob
    Jacob Gaboury

    Image Objects: An Archaeology of Computer Graphics

    How computer graphics transformed the computer from a calculating machine into an interactive medium, as seen through the histories of five technical objects. Most of us think of computer graphics as a relatively recent invention, enabling the spectacular visual effects and lifelike simulations we...
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  • The Computer: A Very Short Introduction by Ince, Darrel
    Darrel Ince

    The Computer: A Very Short Introduction

    What is the basic nature of the modern computer? How does it work? How has it been possible to squeeze so much power into increasingly smaller machines? What will the next generations of computers look like? In this Very Short Introduction, Darrel Ince looks...
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  • Computer Science: A Very Short Introduction by Dasgupta, Subrata
    Subrata Dasgupta

    Computer Science: A Very Short Introduction

    Over the past sixty years, the spectacular growth of the technologies associated with the computer is visible for all to see and experience. Yet, the science underpinning this technology is less visible and little understood outside the professional computer science community. As a scientific...
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  • A New History of Modern Computing by Haigh, Thomas
    Thomas Haigh

    A New History of Modern Computing

    How the computer became universal. Over the past fifty years, the computer has been transformed from a hulking scientific supertool and data processing workhorse, remote from the experiences of ordinary people, to a diverse family of devices that billions rely on to play games,...
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