Computer science literature

• M.A. Arbib, Brains, machines and mathematics , 2nd edition, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1987 (1st edition: McGraw-Hill Inc, 1964).
• E.C. Berkeley, Giant brains, or Machines that think , J. Wiley & Sons, New York, 1949.
• K. Capek, R.U.R. , Pocket Books, New York, 1973 (original edition: Oxford University Press, 1923).
• W. Marchant, The desk set - A comedy in three acts , Samuel French Inc., London/Toronto, 1955.
• W.H. Rodgers, THINK: A Biography of the Watsons and IBM , Steyn & Day Publishers, New York, 1969.

• F.P. Brooks Jr, The mythical man-month - Essays on software engineering , 2nd edition, Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1995 (original edition: 1975).
• J. Brunner, The shockwave rider , Ballantine Books, New York, 1976.
• H. Dreyfus, What computers can't do: a critique of artificial reason , Harper & Row, New York, 1972.
• P. McCorduck, Machines who think , W.H. Freeman and Comp., San Francisco, 1979.
• G.M. Weinberg, The psychology of computer programming , Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 1971 (Silver Anniversary Edition: Dorset House Publishing, New York, 1998).
• J. Weizenbaum, Computer power and human reason: From judgement to calculation , W.H. Freeman and Company, San Francisco, CA, 1976.

• G.D. Austrian, Herman Hollerith - Forgotten giant of information processing , Columbia University Press (Reprint edition), New York, 1982.
• A.R. Burks and A.W. Burks, The first electronic computer: the Atanasoff story , University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 1989.
• R. Dawkins, The blind watchmaker , Penguin Books, London, 1988.
• P. Freiberger and M. Swaine, Fire in the valley: the making of the personal computer , McGraw-Hill Books, 1st edition, 1984 (2nd edition published in 1999).
• D. Harel, Algorithmics - The spirit of computing , Addison-Wesley Publ. Comp., Wokingham, England, 1987.
• A. Hodges, Alan Turing - The enigma of intelligence , Counterpoint/Unwin Paperbacks, London, 1983 (reprinted and revised as `Alan Turing: the enigma' in later years).
• J.T. Kidder, The soul of a new machine , Little, Brown, and Comp., Boston/Toronto, 1981.
• M. Minsky, The society of mind , Simon & Schuster, New York, 1987.
• C.R. Mollenhoff, Atanasoff - Forgotten father of the computer , Iowa State University Press, Ames (Iowa), 1988.
• E.W. Pugh, Memories that shaped an industry - Decisions leading to IBM/System 360 , The MIT Press, Cambridge (MA), 1984.
• G. Rifkin and G. Harrar, The ultimate entrepreneur: the story of Ken Olsen and Digital Equipment Corporation , NTC/Contemporary Books Publishing, Chicago,1988.
• C. Stoll, The cuckoo's egg - Tracking a spy through the maze of computer espionage , Pocket Books, New York, NY, 1989.
• M.V. Wilkes, Memoirs of a computer pioneer , The MIT Press, Cambridge (MA), 1985.
• J.S. Young, Steve Jobs, the journey is the reward , Lynx Books, 1988.

• W. Aspray, John von Neumann and the origins of modern computing , The MIT Press, Cambridge (MA), 1990.
• P. Carroll, Big blues - The unmaking of IBM , Orion Books, London, 1993.
• J.W. Cortada, Before the Computer - IBM, NCR, Burroughs, & Remington Rand & The industry they created 1865 - 1956 , Princeton Univ Press, 1993.
• R.X. Cringely, Accidental empires - How the boys of Silicon Valley make their millions, battle foreign competition, and still can't get a date , Penguin Books, London, 1993.
• D. Gelernter, Mirror worlds : or the day software puts the universe in a shoebox... How it will happen and what it will mean , Oxford University Press, USA, 1993.
• H. Harrison and M. Minsky, The Turing option , Warner Books, New York, 1992 (two additional chapters).
• S. Levy, Insanely great - The life and times of Macintosh, the computer that changed everything , Viking Books, New York, 1994.
• B. Sterling, The hacker crackdown - Law and disorder on the electronic frontier , Bantam Books, New York, 1992.
• T.J. Watson Jr. and P. Petre, Father, son & co. - My life at IBM and beyond , Bantam Doubleday Dell, 1990.
• K. Zuse The computer - My life , Springer-Verlag, New York, 1993.

• J. Brockman, The third culture: Beyond the scientific revolution , Simon & Schuster, New York, NY, 1995 ( on-line version, list of contributing authors).
• P.J. Denning and R.M. Metcalfe (Eds.), Beyond calculation - the next fifty years of computing , Copernicus books, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1997.
• D. Deutsch, The fabric of reality: the science of parallel universes - and its implications , Penguin Books, 1998.
• G. Dyson, Darwin among the machines , Penguin Books, London, 1997.
• B. Gates (with N. Myhrvold and P. Rinearson), The road ahead , Viking, London, 1995.
• D. Gelernter, Machine beauty: Elegance and the heart of technology , Basic Books, reprinted edition, 1999.
• W. Gibson, Neuromancer , Ace Books, New York, 1995.
• W.D. Hillis, The pattern on the stone: The simple ideas that make computers work , Basic Books, 1998.
• M.A. Hiltzik, Dealers of lightning: Xerox Parc and the dawn of the computer age , Harper Business, 1999.
• S. Johnson, Interface culture : How new technology transforms the way we create and communicate , Harper, San Francisco, 1997.
• S. McCartney, ENIAC: the triumphs and tragedies of the world's first computer , Walker and Comp, 1999.
• G.A. Moore, Inside the tornado: Marketing strategies from Silicon Valley's cutting edge , Capstone Publishing Ltd, 1998.
• G.A. Moore, Crossing the chasm: Marketing and selling technology products to mainstream customers , Capstone Publishing Ltd, 1999.
• N. Negroponte, Being digital , Vintage Books, New York, 1995.
• D.A. Norman, The invisible computer: Why good products can fail, the personal computer is so complex and information appliances are the solution , The MIT Press, 1999.
• S. Pinker, How the mind works , Allen Lane - The Penguin Press, London, 1997.
• B. Reeves, C. Nass, The media equation: How people treat computers, television, and new media like real people and places , CSLI Publications, (distributed by) Cambridge University Press, 1996.
• D.E. Shasha, C.A. Lazere, Out of their minds: The lives and discoveries of 15 great computer scientists , Copernicus Books, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1995 (see background).
• E. Ullman, Close to the machine: Technophilia and its discontents , City Lights Books, 1997 (suggested by E. Vershen).
• D.J. Watts, Small worlds - The dynamics of networks between order and randomness , Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1999.

• A-L. Barabasi, Linked - How everything is connected to everything else and what it means for business, science, and everyday life , Plume/Penguin, New York, 2003.
• J.C. Beck, M. Wade, Got game: How the gamer generation is reshaping business forever , Harvard Business School Press, 2004.
• T. Berners-Lee, Weaving the Web: the original design and ultimate destiny of the World Wide Web , Harper Business, 2000.
• J. Brown, Minds, machines and the multiverse: The quest for the quantum computer , Simon & Schuster, New York, 2000 (published also as: The quest for the quantum computer , Touchstone Books, New York, 2001).
• M. Buchanan, Nexus: small worlds and the groundbreaking science of networks , W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 2002 (published also as: Small world - Uncovering nature's hidden networks' , Phoenix/Orion Books, London, 2003) (suggested by H.P. Penning).
• I.B. Cohen, Howard Aiken - Portrait of a computer pioneer , The MIT Press, Cambridge (MA), 2002.
• A. Cohen, Perfect store: Inside Ebay , Sagebrush, 2003.
• M.A. Cusumano The business of software: What every manager, programmer and entrepreneur must know to succeed in good times and bad , Simon & Schuster, 2004.
• M. Dertouzos, The unfinished revolution: how to make technology work for us - instead of the other way around , Harper Business, 2002.
• B.J. Fogg, Persuasive technology: Using computers to change what we think and do , Morgan Kaufmann Publ, San Francisco, 2002.
• L.V. Gerstner, Who says elephants can't dance? Inside IBM's historic turnaround , Harper Business, 2002.
• D. Harel, Computers ltd. - What they really can't do , Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2000.
• E.M. Jackson, The PayPal Wars: Battles with eBay, the Media, the Mafia, and the Rest of Planet Earth , World Ahead Publishing, 2004.
• G. Johnson, A shortcut through time - The path to a quantum computer , Knopf, New York, 2003.
• S. Johnson, Emergence: The connected lives of ants, brains, cities and software , Scribner books, Simon & Schuster, 2001.
• S. Lohr, Go To: The story of the math majors, bridge players, engineers, chess wizards, maverick scientists and iconoclasts - The programmers who created the software revolution , Basic Books, 2002.
• H. Maurer, Xperts: The Paranet , Freya Verlag, Linz, 2004 (see also the entire Xperts series of novels).
• H. Rheingold, The virtual community - Homesteading on the electronic frontier , HarperPerennial, 1994.
• H. Rheingold, Smart mobs: The next social revolution , Perseus Books, 2002.
• B. Schneier, Secrets and lies - Digital security in a networked world , John Wiley & Sons Inc., New York, 2000.
• B. Shneiderman, Leonardo's laptop: Human needs and the new computing technologies , The MIT Press, Cambridge (MA), 2002.
• L. Torvalds, D. Diamond, Just for fun: The story of an accidental revolutionary , Harper Business, 2001.
• H.C. von Baeyer, Information - The new language of science , Phoenix, Orion Books, London, 2004.

• H. Abelson, K. Ledeen, H. Lewis, Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion , Addison Wesley, 2008.
• J. Battelle, The Search: How Google and its rivals rewrote the rules of business and transformed our culture , Portfolio Hardcover, 2005.
• D. Bodanis, Electric Universe - How electricity switched on the world , Little Brown Publishers, London, 2005.
• N. Carr, The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google , W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 2008.
• Th.L. Friedman, The World Is Flat [Updated and Expanded]: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century , Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005 (Updated and Expanded] 2006).
• M. Minsky, The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Human Mind , Simon & Schuster, 2006.
• J. Palfrey, U. Gasser, Born Digital: Understanding the first generation of digital natives , Basic Books, 2008.
• R. Scoble, S. Israel, Naked conversations : How blogs are changing the way businesses talk with customers , J. Wiley & Sons, 2006.
• D.A. Vise (with M. Malseed), The Google Story: Inside the hottest business, media and technology success of our time , PAN books, Pan Macmillan Ltd, London, 2006.