Computer science literature
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Until 1970:
- 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.
1970-1979
- 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.
1980-1989
- 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.
1990-1994
- 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.
1995-1999
- 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.
2000-2004
- 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.
2005-
- 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.
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