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  • Unix: A History and a Memoir by Kernighan, Brian W.
    Brian W. Kernighan

    Unix: A History and a Memoir

    The fascinating story of how Unix began and how it took over the world. Brian Kernighan was a member of the original group of Unix developers, the creator of several fundamental Unix programs, and the co-author of classic books like "The C Programming Language"...
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  • Black Software: The Internet & Racial Justice, from the Afronet to Black Lives Matter by McIlwain, Charlton D.
    Charlton D. McIlwain

    Black Software: The Internet & Racial Justice, from the Afronet to Black Lives Matter

    Activists, pundits, politicians, and the press frequently proclaim today's digitally mediated racial justice activism the new civil rights movement. As Charlton D. McIlwain shows in this book, the story of racial justice movement organizing online is much longer and varied than most people know....
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  • Datapoint: The Lost Story of the Texans Who Invented the Personal Computer Revolution by Wood, Lamont
    Lamont Wood

    Datapoint: The Lost Story of the Texans Who Invented the Personal Computer Revolution

    Forget Apple and IBM. For that matter forget Silicon Valley. The first personal computer, a self-contained unit with its own programmable processor, display, keyboard, internal memory, telephone interface, and mass storage of data was born in San Antonio TX. US Patent number 224,415 was...
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  • Theories of Programming: The Life and Works of Tony Hoare by Jones, Cliff B.
    Cliff B. Jones

    Theories of Programming: The Life and Works of Tony Hoare

    Sir Tony Hoare has had an enormous influence on computer science, from the Quicksort algorithm to the science of software development, concurrency and program verification. His contributions have been widely recognised: He was awarded the ACM's Turing Award in 1980, the Kyoto Prize from...
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  • Profit Over Privacy: How Surveillance Advertising Conquered the Internet by Crain, Matthew
    Matthew Crain

    Profit Over Privacy: How Surveillance Advertising Conquered the Internet

    A deep dive into the political roots of advertising on the internet The contemporary internet's de facto business model is one of surveillance. Browser cookies follow us around the web, Amazon targets us with eerily prescient ads, Facebook and Google read our messages and...
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  • The Supermen: The Story of Seymour Cray and the Technical Wizards Behind the Supercomputer by Murray, Charles J.
    Charles J. Murray

    The Supermen: The Story of Seymour Cray and the Technical Wizards Behind the Supercomputer

    Author: Charles J. MurrayISBN-10: 0471048852ISBN-13: 9780471048855Publisher: WileyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/18/1997Pages: 240Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.20lbsSize: 9.30h x 6.22w x 0.87dReview Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 12/16/1996 pg. 50Kirkus Reviews 12/01/1996 pg. 1722Library Journal 02/15/1997 pg. 155Library Journal 02/01/1997
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  • Mastering the Commodore 64 by Greenshields, Mark
    Mark Greenshields

    Mastering the Commodore 64

    First published in 1983, this user-friendly guide to the Commodore 64 helped many owners of the much-loved home computer understand their machine to a whole new level. The details within the book enabled users to go further than the confines of programming purely in...
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  • Computing: A Concise History by Ceruzzi, Paul E.
    Paul E. Ceruzzi

    Computing: A Concise History

    Discover the history of computing through 4 major threads of development in this compact, accessible history covering punch cards, Silicon Valley, smartphones, and much more. In an accessible style, computer historian Paul Ceruzzi offers a broad though detailed history of computing, from the first...
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  • The Chinese Typewriter: A History by Mullaney, Thomas S.
    Thomas S. Mullaney

    The Chinese Typewriter: A History

    How Chinese characters triumphed over the QWERTY keyboard and laid the foundation for China's information technology successes today.Chinese writing is character based, the one major world script that is neither alphabetic nor syllabic. Through the years, the Chinese written language encountered presumed alphabetic universalism...
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  • The Chip: How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution by Reid, T. R.
    T. R. Reid

    The Chip: How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution

    Barely fifty years ago a computer was a gargantuan, vastly expensive thing that only a handful of scientists had ever seen. The world's brightest engineers were stymied in their quest to make these machines small and affordable until the solution finally came from two...
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  • The Apollo Guidance Computer: Architecture and Operation by O'Brien, Frank
    Frank O'Brien

    The Apollo Guidance Computer: Architecture and Operation

    The technological marvel that facilitated the Apollo missions to the Moon was the on-board computer. In the 1960s most computers filled an entire room, but the spacecraft's computer was required to be compact and low power. Although people today find it difficult to accept...
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  • Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing by Hicks, Mar
    Mar Hicks

    Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing

    This "sobering tale of the real consequences of gender bias" explores how Britain lost its early dominance in computing by systematically discriminating against its most qualified workers: women (Harvard Magazine) In 1944, Britain led the world in electronic computing. By 1974, the British computer...
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  • Theories of Programming: The Life and Works of Tony Hoare by Jones, Cliff B.
    Cliff B. Jones

    Theories of Programming: The Life and Works of Tony Hoare

    Sir Tony Hoare has had an enormous influence on computer science, from the Quicksort algorithm to the science of software development, concurrency and program verification. His contributions have been widely recognised: He was awarded the ACM's Turing Award in 1980, the Kyoto Prize from...
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  • Terrible Old Games You've Probably Never Heard of by Ashen, Stuart
    Stuart Ashen

    Terrible Old Games You've Probably Never Heard of

    In Terrible Old Games You've Probably Never Heard Of, Stuart Ashen has created a collection of hilarious and damning reviews of some of the most bizarre, frustrating, pointless and downright terrible video games ever made. And he would know. . . he's played them...
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  • Zeros and Ones by Plant, Sadie
    Sadie Plant

    Zeros and Ones: Digital Women and the New Technoculture

    A highly contentious, very readable and totally up-to-the-minute investigation of women's natural relationship with modern technology, an association which, Plant argues, will trigger a new sexual revolution.Zeros and Ones is an intelligent, provocative and accessible investigation of the intersection between women, feminism, machines and...
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  • The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone by Merchant, Brian
    Brian Merchant

    The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone

    The secret history of the invention that changed everything-and became the most profitable product in the world. "The One Device is a tour de force, with a fast-paced edge and heaps of analytical insight."-Ashlee Vance, New York Times bestselling author of Elon Musk "A...
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  • Ada's Algorithm by Essinger, James
    James Essinger

    Ada's Algorithm

    Ada's Algorithm tells the extraordinary story of Ada Lovelace, who wrote the world's first algorithm over two hundred years ago. Unlike her male contemporaries, she foresaw its immense potential to create the digital age James Essinger argues. Based on exhaustive archival research, this riveting...
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  • The Modem World: A Prehistory of Social Media by Driscoll, Kevin
    Kevin Driscoll

    The Modem World: A Prehistory of Social Media

    The untold story about how the internet became social, and why this matters for its future "A great book for anyone who wants to understand the early days of online communications."--Preston Gralla, Arts Fuse Fifteen years before the commercialization of the internet, millions of...
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  • My Life at Apple: And the Steve I Knew by Couch, John
    John Couch

    My Life at Apple: And the Steve I Knew

    In 1978, John Couch was working as a software engineer at Hewlett-Packard when a young, ambitious entrepreneur named Steve Jobs unexpectedly showed up on his doorstep. It was Steve's second time trying to persuade John to join him at his promising startup, Apple Computer,...
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  • Uncomputable: Play and Politics in the Long Digital Age by Galloway, Alexander
    Alexander R. Galloway

    Uncomputable: Play and Politics in the Long Digital Age

    A journey through the uncomputable remains of computer history Narrating some lesser known episodes from the deep history of digital machines, Alexander R. Galloway explains the technology that drives the world today, and the fascinating people who brought these machines to life. With an...
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  • Colossus: Bletchley Park's Greatest Secret by Gannon, Paul
    Paul Gannon

    Colossus: Bletchley Park's Greatest Secret

    In 1940, almost a year after the outbreak of World War II, Allied radio operators at an interception station in South London began picking up messages in a strange new code. Using science, math, innovation, and improvisation, Bletchley Park code breakers worked furiously to...
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  • Home Computers: 100 Icons That Defined a Digital Generation by Wiltshire, Alex
    Alex Wiltshire

    Home Computers: 100 Icons That Defined a Digital Generation

    A celebration of the early years of the digital revolution, when computing power was deployed in a beige box on your desk.Today, people carry powerful computers in our pockets and call them "phones." A generation ago, people were amazed that the processing power of...
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