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  • Between Human and Machine: Feedback, Control, and Computing Before Cybernetics by Mindell, David A.
    David A. Mindell

    Between Human and Machine: Feedback, Control, and Computing Before Cybernetics

    Today, we associate the relationship between feedback, control, and computing with Norbert Wiener's 1948 formulation of cybernetics. But the theoretical and practical foundations for cybernetics, control engineering, and digital computing were laid earlier, between the two world wars. In Between Human and Machine: Feedback,...
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  • Minds, Machines, and the Multiverse: The Quest for the Quantum Computer by Brown, Julian
    Julian Brown

    Minds, Machines, and the Multiverse: The Quest for the Quantum Computer

    Minds, Machines, and the Multiverse details the remarkable uses for quantum computing in code breaking, for quantum computers will be able to crack many of the leading methods of protecting secret information, while offering new unbreakable codes. Minds, Machines, and the Multiverse is a...
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  • Bill Gates Speaks: Insight from the World's Greatest Entrepreneur by Lowe, Janet
    Janet Lowe

    Bill Gates Speaks: Insight from the World's Greatest Entrepreneur

    Ob Sie ihn nun lieben oder hassen - Bill Gates hat ganz allein die technologische Zukunft des 21. Jahrhunderts gepr臠t. "Bill Gates Speaks" dokumentiert Leben und Ambitionen einer weltweit einzigartigen F?rungsperlichkeit, und zwar sowohl aus unternehmensbezogener als auch aus kultureller Sicht. Dies ist das...
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  • Extra Life: Coming of Age in Cyberspace by Bennahum, David
    David Bennahum

    Extra Life: Coming of Age in Cyberspace

    Today's digital culture traces its roots to the 1980s, when the first computer generation came of age. These original techno-kids grew up with home-brew programs, secret computer access codes, and arcades where dedicated video gamers fought to extend their play by earning "extra life."...
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  • Engines of the Mind: The Evolution of the Computer from the Mainframes to Microprocessors by Shurkin, Joel N.
    Joel N. Shurkin

    Engines of the Mind: The Evolution of the Computer from the Mainframes to Microprocessors

    When John Mauchly and Presper Eckert developed the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC) at the University of Pennsylvania during World War II, their intention was to aid artillerymen in aiming their guns. Since then, in the past fifty years, ENIAC and its offspring...
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  • Out of Their Minds: The Lives and Discoveries of 15 Great Computer Scientists by Shasha, Dennis
    Dennis Shasha

    Out of Their Minds: The Lives and Discoveries of 15 Great Computer Scientists

    The 15 scientists whose work is profiled in the book have each made significant contributions to a part of the creation of modern computer science. Some are well-known: Donald Knuth, Alan Kay, Danny Hillis; others are not, although all of their contributions have been...
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  • This Machine Kills Secrets: Julian Assange, the Cypherpunks, and Their Fight to Empower Whistleblowers by Greenberg, Andy
    Andy Greenberg

    This Machine Kills Secrets: Julian Assange, the Cypherpunks, and Their Fight to Empower Whistleblowers

    Who Are The Cypherpunks? This is the unauthorized telling of the revolutionary cryptography story behind the motion picture The Fifth Estate in theatres this October, and We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks, a documentary out now. WikiLeaks brought to light a new form...
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  • C64 Machine Language for the Absolute Beginner by Davis, Danny
    Danny Davis

    C64 Machine Language for the Absolute Beginner

    First published in 1984, 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 take their first steps in programming machine code even...
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  • Androids: The Team That Built the Android Operating System by Haase, Chet
    Chet Haase

    Androids: The Team That Built the Android Operating System

    The fascinating inside story of how the Android operating system came to be. In 2004, Android was two people who wanted to build camera software but couldn't get investors interested. Today, Android is a large team at Google, delivering an operating system (including camera...
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  • The Study of Machines: An Introduction to Mechanology by Hochmuth, Weston T.
    Weston T. Hochmuth

    The Study of Machines: An Introduction to Mechanology

    Mechanology is the branch of knowledge that deals with the study of machines and can be described as a protologism for a social science discipline concerned with the analysis and classification of technological artifacts. In general, Mechanology recognizes the four distinct types of machine...
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  • Automating Linguistics by Léon, Jacqueline
    Jacqueline Léon

    Automating Linguistics

    Automating Linguistics offers an in-depth study of the history of the mathematisation and automation of the sciences of language. In the wake of the first mathematisation of the 1930s, two waves followed: machine translation in the 1950s and the development of computational linguistics and...
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  • Words and Power: Computers, Language, and U.S. Cold War Values by Longo, Bernadette
    Bernadette Longo

    Words and Power: Computers, Language, and U.S. Cold War Values

    When viewed through a political lens, the act of defining terms in natural language arguably transforms knowledge into values. This unique volume explores how corporate, military, academic, and professional values shaped efforts to define computer terminology and establish an information engineering profession as a...
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  • 30 Programs for the Sinclair ZX80 by Reproductions, Retro
    Retro Reproductions

    30 Programs for the Sinclair ZX80

    The ZX80 home computer was launched in 1980 by the then still-to-be-knighted home computer mogul Clive Sinclair. Available in kit form at 79.99 for the aspiring hobbyist or pre-built at a price of 99.99 the ground-breaking machine offered home computing for the kind of...
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  • The Sam Coupe User's Guide by Croucher, Mel
    Mel Croucher

    The Sam Coupe User's Guide

    The SAM Coupé was an 8-bit British home computer first released in late 1989. Designed to offer backwards compatibility with the ZX Spectrum, it was marketed as a logical upgrade for owners of the much-loved range of Sinclair machines. Originally manufactured by Miles Gordon...
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  • Crypto Wars: The Fight for Privacy in the Digital Age: A Political History of Digital Encryption by Jarvis, Craig
    Craig Jarvis

    Crypto Wars: The Fight for Privacy in the Digital Age: A Political History of Digital Encryption

    The crypto wars have raged for half a century. In the 1970s, digital privacy activists prophesied the emergence of an Orwellian State, made possible by computer-mediated mass surveillance. The antidote: digital encryption. The U.S. government warned encryption would not only prevent surveillance of law-abiding...
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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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  • The Evolution of the Chinese Internet: Creative Visibility in the Digital Public by Guo, Shaohua
    Shaohua Guo

    The Evolution of the Chinese Internet: Creative Visibility in the Digital Public

    Despite widespread consensus that China's digital revolution was sure to bring about massive democratic reforms, such changes have not come to pass. While scholars and policy makers alternate between predicting change and disparaging a stubbornly authoritarian regime, in this book Shaohua Guo demonstrates how...
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  • The Essential Knuth by Knuth, Donald E.
    Donald E. Knuth

    The Essential Knuth

    Donald E. Knuth lived two separate lives in the late 1950s. During daylight he ran down the visible and respectable lane of mathematics. During nighttime, he trod the unpaved road of computer programming and compiler writing. Both roads intersected -- as Knuth discovered while...
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  • Computing and the National Science Foundation, 1950-2016: Building a Foundation for Modern Computing by Freeman, Peter a.
    Peter a. Freeman

    Computing and the National Science Foundation, 1950-2016: Building a Foundation for Modern Computing

    This organizational history relates the role of the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the development of modern computing. Drawing upon new and existing oral histories, extensive use of NSF documents, and the experience of two of the authors as senior managers, this book describes...
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  • Computation and the Humanities: Towards an Oral History of Digital Humanities by Nyhan, Julianne
    Julianne Nyhan

    Computation and the Humanities: Towards an Oral History of Digital Humanities

    This book addresses the application of computing to cultural heritage and the discipline of Digital Humanities that formed around it. Digital Humanities research is transforming how the Human record can be transmitted, shaped, understood, questioned and imagined and it has been ongoing for more...
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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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  • The Book of Osm by Coast, Steve
    Steve Coast

    The Book of OSM

    OpenStreetMap is the free and open wiki map of the world made by millions of volunteers who re just like you. Contributors use paper, pens, GPS devices, phones and laptops to capture the world around them (like a street name and location) and then...
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  • Journey to the Moon by Hall, Eldon C.
    Eldon C. Hall

    Journey to the Moon

    The first of its kind, Journey to the Moon details the history and design of the computer that enabled U.S. astronauts to land on the moon. The book recalls the history of computer technology, both hardware and software, and the applications of digital computing...
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  • Turing and the Universal Machine: The Making of the Modern Computer by Agar, Jon
    Jon Agar

    Turing and the Universal Machine: The Making of the Modern Computer

    The history of the computer is entwined with that of the modern world and most famously with the life of one man, Alan Turing. How did this device, which first appeared a mere 50 years ago, come to structure and dominate our lives so...
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  • The Jupiter ACE Manual - 35th Anniversary Edition: Forth Programming by Vickers, Steven
    Steven Vickers

    The Jupiter ACE Manual - 35th Anniversary Edition: Forth Programming

    Launched at the peak of the legendary 1980s microcomputer rivalry, the Jupiter ACE was the most intriguing machine of them all, marketed by Jupiter Cantab. This company was founded by Richard Altwasser and Stephen Vickers - the key hardware and software designers for the...
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  • Historical Computer Languages Volume IV: Assembly Language (ASM) Programming by Trigger, Peta
    Peta Trigger

    Historical Computer Languages Volume IV: Assembly Language (ASM) Programming

    This volume is the last of four volumes. Volume I describes the history and construction of BASIC; Volume II describes the computerisation of non-parametric statistical tests and some other statistical measures in BASIC and Volume III describes the programming of matrices and polynomials in...
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  • Sex in Video Games by Brathwaite, Brenda
    Brenda Brathwaite

    Sex in Video Games

    Since the first computer games became available, sex has played a role in some form. But with the release of games like Playboy(R) The Mansion(TM), Leisure Suit Larry(TM) and The Singles, sexual content has gained a firm foothold and, for the first time, ventured...
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  • The History of Visual Magic in Computers: How Beautiful Images Are Made in Cad, 3d, VR and AR by Peddie, Jon
    Jon Peddie

    The History of Visual Magic in Computers: How Beautiful Images Are Made in Cad, 3d, VR and AR

    If you have ever looked at a fantastic adventure or science fiction movie, or an amazingly complex and rich computer game, or a TV commercial where cars or gas pumps or biscuits behaved liked people and wondered, "How do they do that" then you've...
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  • The Sage Handbook of Web History by Brügger, Niels
    Niels Br?ger

    The Sage Handbook of Web History

    The Web has been with us now for almost 25 years. An integral part of our social, cultural and political lives, 'new media' is simply not that new anymore. Despite the rapidly expanding archives of information at our disposal, and the recent growth of...
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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: The Secret History of the Internet and Its Founders is an absorbing chronicle of the inventive, individualistic, and often cantankerous individuals who set the Internet free. Michael A. Banks describes how the online population created a new culture...
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  • FoxTales: Behind the Scenes at Fox Software by Nietz, Kerry
    Kerry Nietz

    FoxTales: Behind the Scenes at Fox Software

    Much has been written about the battles that rage between software companies over market share. FoxTales is the story of one such battle, told from the perspective of a foot soldier. My perspective. When I started with Fox Software, it was a company of...
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  • The Daemon, the Gnu, and the Penguin by Salus, Peter H.
    Peter H. Salus

    The Daemon, the Gnu, and the Penguin

    In addition to covering a history of free and open source, The Daemon, the Gnu, and the Penguin explores how free and open software is changing the world. It is authored by Peter H. Salus, a noted UNIX, open source, and Internet historian and...
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  • Lucky That Way by Fregger, Brad
    Brad Fregger

    Lucky That Way

    Ever wonder how computer games get developed? How computer solitaire was born? How things get done in the consumer software industry? Lucky That Way by Brad Fregger is a rare, inside look at the stories behind the creation of some of the most successful...
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  • Essential Retro: The Vintage Technology Guide by Grahame, James B.
    James B. Grahame

    Essential Retro: The Vintage Technology Guide

    Join retrothing.com author James Grahame as he introduces you to some dazzling devices from years past. You'll encounter hundreds of vintage and neo-retro cameras, audio components, televisions, computers, video games, vehicles, toys, electronic musical instruments and mechanical gadgets. This is a fantastic opportunity to...
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  • R & D Collaboration on Trial: Realizing Value from the Corporate Image by Gibson, David V.
    David V. Gibson

    R & D Collaboration on Trial: Realizing Value from the Corporate Image

    Shaken by the dramatic inroads made by Japanese competitors into high-tech electronics, a number of US electronic firms joined forces in 1982 to form the first US for-profit research consortium: MCC (Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corp.). This book describes MCC's formation and the problems...
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  • Understanding Silicon Valley: The Anatomy of an Entrepreneurial Region by Kenney, Martin
    Martin Kenney

    Understanding Silicon Valley: The Anatomy of an Entrepreneurial Region

    What has made Silicon Valley so productive of new technologies and new firms? How did its pioneering achievements begin--in computer networking, semiconductors, personal computing, and the Internet--and what forces have propelled its unprecedented growth? This collection of nine chapters by contributors from varied disciplines--business,...
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  • Bootstrapping: Douglas Engelbart, Coevolution, and the Origins of Personal Computing by Bardini, Thierry
    Thierry Bardini

    Bootstrapping: Douglas Engelbart, Coevolution, and the Origins of Personal Computing

    Bootstrapping analyzes the genesis of personal computing from both technological and social perspectives, through a close study of the pathbreaking work of one researcher, Douglas Engelbart. In his lab at the Stanford Research Institute in the 1960s, Engelbart, along with a small team of...
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  • The Internet Is Not the Answer by Keen, Andrew
    Andrew Keen

    The Internet Is Not the Answer

    Since its creation during the Cold War, the Internet, together with the Web, personal computers, tablets and smartphones, has ushered in one of the greatest shifts in society since the Industrial Revolution. The Digital Revolution has contributed to the world in many positive ways,...
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  • Microsoft Secrets: How the World's Most Powerful Software Company Creates Technology, Shapes Markets, and Manages People by Cusumano, Michael A.
    Michael A. Cusumano

    Microsoft Secrets: How the World's Most Powerful Software Company Creates Technology, Shapes Markets, and Manages People

    Today, Microsoft commands the high ground of the information superhighway by owning the operating systems and basic applications programs that run on the world's 170 million computers. Beyond the unquestioned genius and vision of Bill Gates, what accounts for Microsofts astounding success? Drawing on...
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  • Histories of Computing by Mahoney, Michael Sean
    Michael Sean Mahoney

    Histories of Computing

    Computer technology is pervasive in the modern world, its role ever more important as it becomes embedded in a myriad of physical systems and disciplinary ways of thinking. The late Michael Sean Mahoney was a pioneer scholar of the history of computing, one of...
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  • The Microsoft Edge: Insider Strategies for Building Success by Bick, Julie
    Julie Bick

    Microsoft Edge: Insider Strategies for Building Success

    How did the team at Microsoft pioneer, build, and shepherd the company through exponential growth in a constantly changing market? How can you apply what they've discovered to your own career? Microsoft veteran Julie Bick reveals all the insider strategieAuthor: Julie BickISBN-10: 0671034146ISBN-13: 9780671034146Publisher:...
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  • Go to: The Story of the Math Majors, Bridge Players, Engineers, Chess Wizards, Maverick Scientists, and Iconoclasts-- The Pro by Lohr, Steve
    Steve Lohr

    Go to: The Story of the Math Majors, Bridge Players, Engineers, Chess Wizards, Maverick Scientists, and Iconoclasts-- The Pro

    In Go To, Steve Lohr chronicles the history of software from the early days of complex mathematical codes mastered by a few thousand to today's era of user-friendly software and over six million professional programmers worldwide. Lohr maps out the unique seductions of programming,...
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  • Bill Gates: The Path to the Future by Gatlin, Jonathan
    Jonathan Gatlin

    Bill Gates: The Path to the Future

    He is Thomas Edison and Henry Ford rolled into one -- except that William Henry Gates III maybe smarter and more successful than either. He is America's richest man, and on the corporate landscape, he may well be the most feared. In less than...
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  • Recoding Gender: Women's Changing Participation in Computing by Abbate, Janet
    Janet Abbate

    Recoding Gender: Women's Changing Participation in Computing

    The untold history of women and computing: how pioneering women succeeded in a field shaped by gender biases.Today, women earn a relatively low percentage of computer science degrees and hold proportionately few technical computing jobs. Meanwhile, the stereotype of the male "computer geek" seems...
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  • Talking Nets: An Oral History of Neural Networks by Anderson, James A.
    James A. Anderson

    Talking Nets: An Oral History of Neural Networks

    Surprising tales from the scientists who first learned how to use computers to understand the workings of the human brain.Since World War II, a group of scientists has been attempting to understand the human nervous system and to build computer systems that emulate the...
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  • Direct from Dell: Strategies That Revolutionized an Industry by Dell, Michael
    Michael Dell

    Direct from Dell: Strategies That Revolutionized an Industry

    At nineteen, Michael Dell started his company as a freshman at the University of Texas with $1,000 and has since built an industry powerhouse. As Dell journeys through his childhood adventures, ups and downs, and mistakes made along the way, he reflects on invaluable...
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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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  • Eniac in Action: Making and Remaking the Modern Computer /]cthomas Haigh, Mark Priestley, and Crispin Rope by Haigh, Thomas
    Thomas Haigh

    Eniac in Action: Making and Remaking the Modern Computer /]cthomas Haigh, Mark Priestley, and Crispin Rope

    The history of the first programmable electronic computer, from its conception, construction, and use to its afterlife as a part of computing folklore.Conceived in 1943, completed in 1945, and decommissioned in 1955, ENIAC (the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) was the first general-purpose programmable...
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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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