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  • 10 Inventions That Changed the World: Transformative Breakthroughs in Human History by Estudio, Ai
    Ai Estudio

    10 Inventions That Changed the World: Transformative Breakthroughs in Human History

    Explore the fascinating stories behind the inventions that shaped our modern world. From the humble wheel to the groundbreaking smartphone, this book delves into ten revolutionary innovations that redefined human civilization. Discover how these creations transformed transportation, communication, medicine, and more, leaving an enduring...
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  • Readme: A Bookish History of Computing from Electronic Brains to Everything Machines by McCray, W. Patrick
    W. Patrick McCray

    Readme: A Bookish History of Computing from Electronic Brains to Everything Machines

    The essential role that the oldest literary technology--books--played in making computers popular and pervasive. In README, historian Patrick McCray argues that in order for computers to become ubiquitous, people first had to become interested in them, learn about them, and take the machines seriously....
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  • On the Way to the Web: The Secret History of the Internet and Its Founders by Banks, Michael
    Michael Banks

    On the Way to the Web: The Secret History of the Internet and Its Founders

    On the Way to the Web is the story of the opening of the Internet, and parallel developments in the alternate world of computer bulletin board systems. It's a chronicle of the inventive, individualistic and often cantankerous individuals who set the Internet free--and the...
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  • Carl Adam Petri: Life and Science by Smith, Einar
    Einar Smith

    Carl Adam Petri: Life and Science

    Author: Einar SmithISBN-10: 3662480921ISBN-13: 9783662480922Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/11/2015Pages: 128Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.83lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.38d
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  • PhantomJS Cookbook by Friesel, Rob
    Rob Friesel

    PhantomJS Cookbook

    Author: Rob FrieselISBN-10: 178398192XISBN-13: 9781783981922Publisher: Packt PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/12/2014Pages: 304Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.16lbsSize: 9.25h x 7.50w x 0.64d
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  • Encyclopedia of Computers and Computer History by Rojas, Raúl
    Raúl Rojas

    Encyclopedia of Computers and Computer History

    The Encyclopedia of Computers and Computer History provides a complete A-to-Z reference guide to computers, their development, and their usage in today's world. Beginning with Abacus, this two-volume set provides over 900 pages of facts, definitions, biographies, histories, and explanations of a remarkable variety...
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  • The Internet Depression: The Boom, the Bust, and Beyond by Mandel, Michael J.
    Michael J. Mandel

    The Internet Depression: The Boom, the Bust, and Beyond

    The Coming Internet Depression is the one book that offers a rational method for making the best of tech-driven economic downturns. Michael Mandel, the economist most renowned for predicting the New Economy of the 1990s, was one of the first to predict the next...
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  • Emanuel Goldberg and His Knowledge Machine: Information, Invention, and Political Forces by Buckland, Michael
    Michael Buckland

    Emanuel Goldberg and His Knowledge Machine: Information, Invention, and Political Forces

    This book tells the story of Emanuel Goldberg, a chemist, inventor, and industrialist who contributed to almost every aspect of imaging technology in the first half of the 20th century. Despite his accomplishments, history has not been kind to Goldberg, a name all but...
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  • The Irrational Decision: How We Gave Computers the Power to Choose for Us by Recht, Benjamin
    Benjamin Recht

    The Irrational Decision: How We Gave Computers the Power to Choose for Us

    How the computer revolution shaped our conception of rationality--and why human problems require solutions rooted in human intuition, morality, and judgment In the 1940s, mathematicians set out to design computers that could act as ideal rational agents in the face of uncertainty. The Irrational...
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  • The Inventions of Louis Pouzin: One of the Fathers of the Internet by Lebrument, Chantal
    Chantal Lebrument

    The Inventions of Louis Pouzin: One of the Fathers of the Internet

    This book recounts the adventures of Louis Pouzin who invented one of the core elements for transmitting data over today's Internet, the datagram. He also created one of the most widely used computer programming languages, the Shell; and is currently, at age 88, a...
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  • Mundaneum: The Shocking True Story of the Man who Created the Internet and the Man who Destroyed It by Croucher, Mel
    Mel Croucher

    Mundaneum: The Shocking True Story of the Man who Created the Internet and the Man who Destroyed It

    This is the true story of two men who meet only once. One is a pacifist, the other is a Nazi. Both men are visionaries, but their visions for the future of the world cannot be more different.One man's vision is to harness data...
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  • Crack99: The Takedown of a $100 Million Chinese Software Pirate by Hall, David Locke
    David Locke Hall

    Crack99: The Takedown of a $100 Million Chinese Software Pirate

    A former U.S. Navy intelligence officer, David Locke Hall was a federal prosecutor when a bizarre-sounding website, CRACK99, came to his attention. It looked like Craigslist on acid, but what it sold was anything but amateurish: thousands of high-tech software products used largely by...
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  • IBM: The Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon by Cortada, James W.
    James W. Cortada

    IBM: The Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon

    A history of one of the most influential American companies of the last century. For decades, IBM shaped the way the world did business. IBM products were in every large organization, and IBM corporate culture established a management style that was imitated by companies...
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  • The Origin And Evolution Of Computers by Hait, Shreyan
    Shreyan Hait

    The Origin And Evolution Of Computers

    "From Abacuses to Algorithms: The Evolution of Computing" is an engaging exploration of the incredible journey of computing technology, tracing its history from its earliest roots to its transformative presence in modern society. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the milestones, innovators, and...
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  • The Internet Stack by Tiwana, Amrit
    Amrit Tiwana

    The Internet Stack

    An accessible journey through the seam that connects the digital world of the Internet to our physical world. The stack--the conduit between our digital and physical worlds--is the elusive, mysterious, and least-understood part of the Internet. In the five seconds it took you to...
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  • Algorithms, Monks, and Merchants: Computing in Everyday Life in the Middle Ages by Ausiello, Giorgio
    Giorgio Ausiello

    Algorithms, Monks, and Merchants: Computing in Everyday Life in the Middle Ages

    This book explores the tight relationship that existed between application needs and computational problem-solving methods during the Middle Ages, particularly the period between the 9th and 15th centuries. It was a time of great cultural and economic evolution, starting with the blooming phase of...
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  • Turing Tales by Daylight, Edgar G.
    Edgar G. Daylight

    Turing Tales

    Edgar Daylight's rather provocative theme in this book is that many high-profile computer scientists do not consistently distinguish between their favorite mathematical concepts and the representations thereof in the real world. This leads to mistakes. Daylight introduces seemingly small but useful distinctions. As a...
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  • Communities of Computing: Computer Science and Society in the ACM by Thomas J Misa
    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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  • The Forgotten Silicon Valley: Tales of the Second California Gold Rush by Howells, John
    John Howells

    The Forgotten Silicon Valley: Tales of the Second California Gold Rush

    Everyone knows about Apple, Google, Facebook, Yahoo and numerous other high-tech companies that represent what we think of as "Silicon Valley", but it wasn't always that way. There is a whole history of the valley that isn't often told. This book attempts to put...
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  • The Digital Migrant: The Reminiscence of a Labrat by Muecke-Davis, Carol
    Carol Muecke-Davis

    The Digital Migrant: The Reminiscence of a Labrat

    These reminiscence are dedicated to fellow time travelers who were also swept up in this new, disruptive, and exciting era of emerging computer science. The memories span the years from 1972 to 2018. They are more about the people and the experiences and less...
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  • Smarter Than Their Machines: Oral Histories of Pioneers in Interactive Computing by Cullinane, John
    John Cullinane

    Smarter Than Their Machines: Oral Histories of Pioneers in Interactive Computing

    Smarter Than Their Machines: Oral Histories of the Pioneers of Interactive Computing is based on oral histories archived at the Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota. Included are the oral histories of some key pioneers of the computer industry selected by John that led...
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  • The History of the Telephone by Casson, Herbert N.
    Herbert N. Casson

    The History of the Telephone

    Casson was a Canadian journalist who wrote about business and technology. He discusses the impact of the telephone in the first 25 years of its existence. Casson begins with Bell's discovery and the trouble he had being taken seriously, then moves on to improvements...
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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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  • TechGenesis: From Flintstones to AI by Maddox, Parker J.
    Parker J. Maddox

    TechGenesis: From Flintstones to AI

    Journey Through the Ages of Technological MarvelsEmbark on a compelling odyssey from the primitive sparks of human ingenuity to the cutting-edge advancements of our digital world. "TechGenesis: From Flintstones to AI", expertly navigates the profound story of technology's evolution, inviting readers to uncover pivotal...
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  • Tweeting to Freedom: An Encyclopedia of Citizen Protests and Uprisings around the World by Willis, William
    William Willis

    Tweeting to Freedom: An Encyclopedia of Citizen Protests and Uprisings around the World

    This book provides an insightful and comprehensive look at the issues regarding the use of the Internet and social media by activists in more than 30 countries--and how many governments in these countries are trying to blunt these efforts to promote freedom. The innovators...
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  • Historical Dictionary of Data Processing: Technology by Cortada, James W.
    James W. Cortada

    Historical Dictionary of Data Processing: Technology

    Product information not available.Author: James W. CortadaISBN-10: 0313256527ISBN-13: 9780313256523Publisher: GreenwoodLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/23/1987Pages: 428Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.71lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.94d
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  • The Rise of the Blogosphere by Barlow, Aaron
    Aaron Barlow

    The Rise of the Blogosphere

    In 1985 The WELL, a dial-up discussion board, began with the phrase: You own your own words. Though almost everything else about online discussion has changed in the two decades since, those words still describe its central premise, and this basic idea underlies both...
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  • The Microcomputer Industry in Brazil: The Case of a Protected High-Technology Industry by Luzio, Eduardo
    Eduardo Luzio

    The Microcomputer Industry in Brazil: The Case of a Protected High-Technology Industry

    In 1977 Brazil initiated the market reserve policy to protect and reserve its domestic market for its own computer manufacturing companies. The basic assumptions on which its plans rested were fatally flawed, however, and the experiment failed to a large degree. This work investigates...
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  • On the Road to New Media: Lessons learned in the transformation to digital by Rhodes, Cheryl
    Cheryl Rhodes

    On the Road to New Media: Lessons learned in the transformation to digital

    No other book describes this paper-to-digital transformation from the inside. As co-authors, publishers, producers, and media entrepreneurs, Tony Bove and Cheryl Rhodes have always been advocates of this transformation, never shying from its grand purpose of advancing freedom of the press and expression."A great...
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  • Kendo Ui Cookbook by Ganatra, Sagar
    Sagar Ganatra

    Kendo Ui Cookbook

    Author: Sagar GanatraISBN-10: 1783980001ISBN-13: 9781783980000Publisher: Packt PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/14/2014Pages: 250Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.96lbsSize: 9.25h x 7.50w x 0.53d
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  • Nvidia: The Story of Three Visionaries Who Built a Visual Computing Empire by Mitchell, Jeremy
    Jeremy Mitchell

    Nvidia: The Story of Three Visionaries Who Built a Visual Computing Empire

    In Nvidia: The Story of Three Visionaries Who Built a Visual Computing Empire, author Jeremy Mitchell takes you on a riveting journey through the creation and rise of one of the most influential companies in the world of technology. Nvidia's meteoric ascent from a...
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  • LISP From Nothing by Holm, Nils M.
    Nils M. Holm

    LISP From Nothing

    What is the minimal LISP language that can interpret itself? What is the smallest LISP that can compile itself? What was LISP hacking like in the age of punch cards, teletypes, and mainframe computers? This text plays with the theme of minimal LISP by...
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  • My Quarter Century in Asia: From War-Torn Saigon to Bubble-Era Tokyo, A Software Odyssey, 1968-1993 by Siniscal, John A.
    John A. Siniscal

    My Quarter Century in Asia: From War-Torn Saigon to Bubble-Era Tokyo, A Software Odyssey, 1968-1993

    In 1968, at the height of the Vietnam War, a young IBM systems engineer is sent to Saigon to support computers used by the US military in their war effort. While there, he becomes captivated by the people and culture of Asia and spends...
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  • Silence, Screen, and Spectacle: Rethinking Social Memory in the Age of Information by Freeman, Lindsey A.
    Lindsey A. Freeman

    Silence, Screen, and Spectacle: Rethinking Social Memory in the Age of Information

    In an age of information and new media the relationships between remembering and forgetting have changed. This volume addresses the tension between loud and often spectacular histories and those forgotten pasts we strain to hear. Employing social and cultural analysis, the essays within examine...
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  • Internet Architecture and Innovation by Van Schewick, Barbara
    Barbara Van Schewick

    Internet Architecture and Innovation

    A detailed examination of how the underlying technical structure of the Internet affects the economic environment for innovation and the implications for public policy.Today--following housing bubbles, bank collapses, and high unemployment--the Internet remains the most reliable mechanism for fostering innovation and creating new wealth....
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  • The Divine Comedy of the Tech Sisterhood: & other stories by Violet, Rena
    Rena Violet

    The Divine Comedy of the Tech Sisterhood: & other stories

    Author: Rena Violet, Anat DeracineISBN-13: 9798990835221Publisher: Mayavin PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/2025Pages: 122Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.28lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.29d
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  • The Limbo Files by Langford, David
    David Langford

    The Limbo Files

    In 1985, when all the world was young and dot-matrix printers stalked the primeval swamps of computing, David Langford won his Hugo Award and began a long-running column for 8000 Plus magazine (later PCW Plus). This notoriously became the page readers turned to first....
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  • Nvidia Revolution: Driving AI, Gaming, and Computing Forward: A History, Legacy of Innovation, Chip Evolution, and Industry Challenges by Truitt, David E.
    David E. Truitt

    Nvidia Revolution: Driving AI, Gaming, and Computing Forward: A History, Legacy of Innovation, Chip Evolution, and Industry Challenges

    This book explores NVIDIA Corporation, one of the world's leading semiconductor companies specializing in GPU technology. NVIDIA has transformed the computing industry from its founding in 1993 to its dominance in AI hardware and software. The book examines the company's key milestones, from developing...
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  • Gravity's Ghosts: Unveiling Gravitational Waves by Hunter, Eileen E.
    Eileen E. Hunter

    Gravity's Ghosts: Unveiling Gravitational Waves

    Discover the Invisible Waves That Transform Our Understanding of the UniverseIn "Gravity's Ghosts: Unveiling Gravitational Waves", renowned author Eileen E. Hunter takes readers on an illuminating journey through the most recent frontier of astronomical exploration. From the theoretical dawn inspired by Einstein's profound theories...
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  • To Infinity and Beyond: The Science and Fiction of Wormhole Travel by Nelson, Jacqueline Y.
    Jacqueline Y. Nelson

    To Infinity and Beyond: The Science and Fiction of Wormhole Travel

    "To Infinity and Beyond: The Science and Fiction of Wormhole Travel" takes readers on an astounding journey through the realms of science and fiction. This captivating exploration delves into the tantalizing concept of wormholes-mysterious bridges connecting the farthest corners of the universe.The book is...
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  • Breaking Through Bytes: Women Shaping the Digital World by Vero, Kelly
    Kelly Vero

    Breaking Through Bytes: Women Shaping the Digital World

    Breaking Through Bytes: Women Shaping the Digital World celebrates the indomitable spirit of women who redefined technology. Divided into 9 iconic chapters, the book provides vivid portraits of 18 female pioneers who cracked the digital code, women who dared to question, create and conquer,...
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  • The Computers That Made the World by Danton, Tim
    Tim Danton

    The Computers That Made the World

    This book tells the story of the birth of the computing industry via the origins of ten influential computers built between 1939 and 1950Starting with a short, sharp history of how we got to where we were on the eve of the second world...
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  • Succeeding in Information Technology by Leonardich, Michael
    Michael Leonardich

    Succeeding in Information Technology

    The Information Technology profession has seen massive and dramatic change since the early days of mainframe computers and punch cards. Colleges and trade schools offer a multitude of classes for people desiring to enter the profession. While they do an excellent job of teaching...
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  • The Shortest History of AI: The Six Essential Ideas That Animate It by Walsh, Toby
    Toby Walsh

    The Shortest History of AI: The Six Essential Ideas That Animate It

    Since Alan Turing first posed the question, "Can machines think?," artificial intelligence has evolved from a speculative idea to a transformative force. The Shortest History of AI traces this evolution, from Ada Lovelace's visionary work to IBM's groundbreaking defeat of the chess world champion...
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  • The Seymour Cray Era of Supercomputers: From Fast Machines to Fast Codes by Elzen, Boelie
    Boelie Elzen

    The Seymour Cray Era of Supercomputers: From Fast Machines to Fast Codes

    This book describes the development and use of supercomputers in the period 1960-1996, a time that can be called the Seymour Cray Era. For more than three decades, Cray's computer designs were seen as the yardstick against which all other efforts were measured. Initially,...
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  • Partners are Friends by McKelvey, Elize N.
    Elize N. McKelvey

    Partners are Friends

    Based on a true story of military service, partnership, and adventure. Illustrated and written by U.S. Marines, this book immerses readers in a snowy city across the world as a U.S. cyber team quickly helps their partners, their friends, protect their computer networks from...
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  • The Seymour Cray Era of Supercomputers: From Fast Machines to Fast Codes by Elzen, Boelie
    Boelie Elzen

    The Seymour Cray Era of Supercomputers: From Fast Machines to Fast Codes

    This book describes the development and use of supercomputers in the period 1960-1996, a time that can be called the Seymour Cray Era. For more than three decades, Cray's computer designs were seen as the yardstick against which all other efforts were measured. Initially,...
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  • Algorithms, Monks, and Merchants: Computing in Everyday Life in the Middle Ages by Ausiello, Giorgio
    Giorgio Ausiello

    Algorithms, Monks, and Merchants: Computing in Everyday Life in the Middle Ages

    This book explores the tight relationship that existed between application needs and computational problem-solving methods during the Middle Ages, particularly the period between the 9th and 15th centuries. It was a time of great cultural and economic evolution, starting with the blooming phase of...
    $88.00
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  • Habitual Rhetoric: Digital Writing Before Digital Technology by Mueller, Alex
    Alex Mueller

    Habitual Rhetoric: Digital Writing Before Digital Technology

    Writing has always been digital. Just as digits scribble with the quill or tap the typewriter, digits compose binary code and produce text on a screen. Over time, however, digital writing has come to be defined by numbers and chips, not fingers and parchment....
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  • Keith Houston

    Face with Tears of Joy: A Natural History of Emoji

    We are surrounded by emoji. They appear in politics, movies, drug deals, our sex lives, and more. But emoji's impact has never been explored in full. Named for the world's most popular pictogram, Face with Tears of Joy tells the whole story of emoji...
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