Back Bay Books, 2000. — 320 p. — ISBN10: 0316491977; ISBN13: 978-0316491976. Computers have changed since 1981, when Tracy Kidder indelibly recorded the drama, comedy, and excitement of one company's efforts to bring a new microcomputer to market. What has changed little, however, is computer culture: the feverish pace of the high-tech industry, the mystique of programmers, the...
PublicAffairs, 2015. — 384 p. — ISBN: 978-1610395731,1610395735. The Internet in Russia is either the most efficient totalitarian tool or the device by which totalitarianism will be overthrown. Perhaps both. On the eighth floor of an ordinary-looking building in an otherwise residential district of southwest Moscow, in a room occupied by the Federal Security Service (FSB), is a...
New York: Pantheon Books, 2012. — 508 p. — ISBN 978-0307907066, 9780375422775, 0375422773. In a revealing account of John von Neumann’s realization of Alan Turing’s Universal Machine, George Dyson vividly illuminates the nature of digital computers, the lives of those who brought them into existence, and how code took over the world. Preface. Acknowledgments. Principal...
No Starch Press, 2022. — 496 p. — ISBN-13: 978-1-7185-0241-3. Strange Code starts with a dive into the underlying history of programming, covering the early computer-science concepts, like Turing machines and Turing completeness, that led to the languages we use today. It then explores the realm of “atypical” programming languages, introducing you to the out-of-the-box thinking...
3rd edition. — Springer, 2021. — 370 p. — ISBN 978-3030665982, 3030665984.. This lively and fascinating text traces the key developments in computation – from 3000 B.C. to the present day – in an easy-to-follow and concise manner. Topics and features: ideal for self-study, offering many pedagogical features such as chapter-opening key topics, chapter introductions and...
Sterling, 2019. — 528 р. — (Sterling Milestones). — ISBN: 978-1454926214, 1454926228. Part of Sterling’s extremely popular Milestones series, this illustrated exploration of computer science ranges from the ancient abacus to superintelligence and social media. With 250 illustrated landmark inventions, publications, and events—encompassing everything from ancient record-keeping...
The MIT Press, 2020. — 243 p. — (History and Foundations of Information Science). — ISBN 9780262043823, 0262043823. An exploration of infographics and data visualization as a cultural phenomenon, from eighteenth-century print culture to today's data journalism. Infographics and data visualization are ubiquitous in our everyday media diet, particularly in news—in print...
Pantheon, 2017. — 640 p. — ISBN10: 1101871555, ISBN13: 978-1101871553. At a time when Steve Jobs was only a teenager and Mark Zuckerberg wasn’t even born, a group of visionary engineers and designers—some of them only high school students—in the late 1960s and 1970s created a computer system called PLATO, which was light-years ahead in experimenting with how people would learn,...
Oxford University Press, 2004. — 613 p. — ISBN: 0-19-825079-7, 0-19-825080-0. Alan Turing, pioneer of computing and WWII codebreaker, is one of the most important and influential thinkers of the twentieth century. In this volume for the first time his key writings are made available to a broad, non-specialist readership. They make fascinating reading both in their own right and...
Thomas Rid, 2016. — 531 p. Control and communication at war Cybernetics Automation Organisms Culture Space Anarchy War Fall of the machines Illustrations Notes Illustration credits
The MIT Press, 2021. — 545 p. — ISBN 9780262542906. How the computer became universal. Over the past fifty years, the computer has been transformed from a hulking scientific supertool and data processing workhorse, remote from the experiences of ordinary people, to a diverse family of devices that billions rely on to play games, shop, stream music and movies, communicate, and...
The MIT Press, 2021. — 299 c. — (History and Foundations of Information Science). — ISBN 9780262365635, 0262365634. An innovative examination of typography as a medium of communication rather than part of print or digital media. Typography is everywhere and yet widely unnoticed. When we read type, we fail to see type. In this book, Kate Brideau considers typography not as part...
No Starch Press, 2024. — 560 p. — ISBN-13: 978-1-7185-0287-1. Not since the 1980s has computer architecture been so exciting ! This book captures the moment, mining the history of computing to teach key concepts in modern hardware design and introduce the neural and quantum architectures of the future . Computer Architecture is an in-depth exploration of the principles and...
W. W. Norton & Co., 2023. — 384 p. The hidden history of the pocket calculator—a device that ushered in modern mathematics, helped build the atomic bomb, and went with us to the moon—and the mathematicians, designers, and inventors who brought it to life. Starting with hands, abacus, and slide rule, humans have always reached for tools to simplify math. Pocket-sized calculators...
MIT Press, 2017. — 240 p. The first scholarly book in English on Minitel, the pioneering French computer network, offers a history of a technical system and a cultural phenomenon. A decade before the Internet became a medium for the masses in the United States, tens of millions of users in France had access to a network for e-mail, e-commerce, chat, research, game playing,...
Springer, 2013. — 297 p. — ISBN 9782013944069, 2013944063. It has been upon the shoulders of giants that the modern world has been forged. This accessible compendium presents an insight into the great minds responsible for the technology which has transformed our lives. Each pioneer is introduced with a brief biography, followed by a concise account of their key contributions...
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, 2015. — 260 p. — ISBN 9783319214634, 9783319214641, 3319214640. This accessible compendium examines a collection of significant technology firms that have helped to shape the field of computing and its impact on society. Each company is introduced with a brief account of its history, followed by a concise account of its key...
М.: Ад Маргинем Пресс, 2021. — 318 с. — ISBN 978-5-91103-578-5. Культуролог Мартин Буркхардт (род. 1957) показывает, что цифровая эра началась еще в 1746 году. У нас не было бы интернета, если бы аббат Нолле тогда не открыл, что электричество распространяется почти мгновенно, если бы Жозеф-Мари Жаккар не изобрел свой ткацкий станок и если бы Чарльз Бэббидж не создал свою...
Addison-Wesley, 2013. — 496 p. — ISBN 9780321903426, 0321903420. Software engineering is one of the world’s most exciting and important fields. Now, pioneering practitioner Capers Jones has written the definitive history of this world-changing industry. Drawing on several decades as a leading researcher and innovator, he illuminates the field’s broad sweep of progress and its...
Springer, 2013. — 165 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4471-5024-4. The impact on modern society made by the Internet is immeasurable. Yet some questioned "why anyone would want such a thing" when the idea was first introduced. Part history, part memoir and part cultural study, Network Geeks charts the creation of the Internet and the establishment of the Internet Engineering Task Force, from...
Penguin Books USA, 2021. — 400 p. — ISBN 9781984878540, 2021007920. A biography of venture capitalist and entrepreneur Peter Thiel, the enigmatic, controversial and hugely influential power broker who sits at the dynamic intersection of tech, business and politics. Since the days of the dot-com bubble in the late 1990s, no industry has made a greater global impact than Silicon...
3rd Edition. — CRC Press, 2018. — 239 p. — ISBN-13: 978-1138502086. Computers are everywhere today — at work, in the bank, in artist’s studios, sometimes even in our pockets — yet they remain to many of us objects of irreducible mystery. How can today’s computers perform such a bewildering variety of tasks if computing is just glorified arithmetic? The answer, as Martin Davis...
ACM Books, 2025. — 288 p. 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, this yardstick was sheer computing speed. However, the supercomputer world...
Grand Central Publishing, 2022. — 320 p. After the end of World War II, the race for technological supremacy sped on. Top-secret research into ballistics and computing, begun during the war to aid those on the front lines, continued across the United States as engineers and programmers rushed to complete their confidential assignments. Among them were six pioneering women,...
Harper Business, 2014 – 560 p. – ISBN 9780062226761, 0062226789 Based on unprecedented access to the corporation’s archives, The Intel Trinity is the first full history of Intel Corporation—the essential company of the digital age— told through the lives of the three most important figures in the company’s history: Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove. Often hailed the...
Little, Brown and Company, 2017. — 416 p. — ISBN 978-0316546164, 031654616X. A global exploration of the breakthroughs that made Apple's iPhone--the most profitable product ever created--possible, from the senior editor of VICE Motherboard. The secret history of the invention that changed everything-and became the most profitable product in the world. «The One Device» is a tour...
Greenwood, 2022. — 307 p. — ISBN 978-1-4408-6605-0. This book, aimed at general readers, covers the entirety of computing history from antiquity to the present, placing the story of computing into the broader context of politics, economics, society, and more. Computers dominate the world we live in, and this book describes how we got here. The Computer: A Brief History of the...
М.: Группа Дарнэл, 2000. — 508 с. — ISBN 5-901455-01-0, 0-07-135892-7. В январе 1975 года на обложке журнала «Popular Electronics» появилась фотография диковинного металлического ящика с тумблерами и мигающими лампочками. Так миру был представлен Altair — предшественник сегодняшних ПК. Его появление ознаменовало начало революции персональных компьютеров и зарождение индустрии,...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022. — 472 p. — (Studies in Computing and Culture) Cutting-edge historians explore ideas, communities, and technologies around modern computing to explore how computers mediate social relations. Computers have been framed both as a mirror for the human mind and as an irreducible other that humanness is defined against, depending on different...
The Penguin Press HC, 2009. — 400 p. — ISBN 9781594202353, 1594202354. Auletta offers a comprehensive history of Google's meteoric rise, profiling its creators, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the initial team members, previous commentators on the organization, and Google's various competitors over the years. A revealing, forward-looking examination of the outsize influence Google...
Orange Publishers, 2021. — 322 p. — ISBN 978-93-90505-26-5. How huge were the first computers? What jobs were computers used for in the past? Who really invented the internet? What are the stories behind the success of some of the tech icons and how have they created a new paradigm in computing? The book tries to find answers to these and many more questions in a simple and...
Oxford University Press, 2005. — 402 p. — ISBN 9780195163438, 0195163435. Hailed as the Thomas Edison and Henry Ford of Silicon Valley, Robert Noyce was a brilliant inventor, a leading entrepreneur, and a daring risk taker who piloted his own jets and skied mountains accessible only by helicopter. Now, in The Man Behind the Microchip, Leslie Berlin captures not only this...
Crown, 2020. — 416 p. — ISBN 9781101907252; 1101907258 An explosive exposé of Samsung that “reads like a dynastic thriller, rolling through three generations of family intrigue, embezzlement, bribery, corruption, prostitution, and other bad behavior” (The Wall Street Journal). Based on years of reporting on Samsung for The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, and Time, from his...
3rd Edition. — Westview Press, 2013. — 376 p. — (The Sloan Technology Series) — ISBN 9780813345901, 0813345901. Computer: A History of the Information Machine traces the history of the computer and shows how business and government were the first to explore its unlimited, information-processing potential. Old-fashioned entrepreneurship combined with scientific know-how inspired...
Morgan & Claypool 2019 ISBN: 9781450372749 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 how NSF’s programmatic activities originated and...
Touchstone, 1998. — 304 p. — ISBN 9780684872162, 0684872161. Twenty five years ago, it didn’t exist. Today, twenty million people worldwide are surfing the Net. Where Wizards Stay Up Late is the exciting story of the pioneers responsible for creating the most talked about, most influential, and most far-reaching communications breakthrough since the invention of the telephone....
Swindon: The Chartered Institute for IT, 2012. — 128 p. — ISBN 978-1906124908, 1906124906. Secret wartime projects in code-breaking, radar and ballistics produced a wealth of ideas and technologies that kick-started the development of digital computers. Alan Turing took an early lead on the theory side, along with fellow mathematicians on both sides of the Atlantic. This is the...
Penguin Press, 2019. — 512 p. — ISBN: 978-0399562181, 0399562184. The true, behind-the-scenes history of the people who built Silicon Valley and shaped Big Tech in America Long before Margaret O'Mara became one of our most consequential historians of the American-led digital revolution, she worked in the White House of Bill Clinton and Al Gore in the earliest days of the...
W. W. Norton Company, 2015 — 272 p. — ISBN 9780393083590, 0393083594 A hidden history of the twentieth century’s brilliant innovations—as seen through art and images of electronics that fed the dreams of millions. A rich historical account of electronic technology in the twentieth century, Inside the Machine journeys from the very origins of electronics, vacuum tubes, through...
The MIT Press, 2021. — 560 p. — ISBN 9780262542456. The pixel as the organizing principle of all pictures, from cave paintings to Toy Story. The Great Digital Convergence of all media types into one universal digital medium occurred, with little fanfare, at the recent turn of the millennium. The bit became the universal medium, and the pixel--a particular packaging of...
Simon & Schuster, 2017. — 513 p. — ISBN 9781451651508, 1451651503. Troublemakers is the gripping tale of seven exceptional men and women, pioneers of Silicon Valley in the 1970s and early 1980s. Together, they worked across generations, industries, and companies to bring technology from Pentagon offices and university laboratories to the rest of us. In doing so, they changed...
Springer Wiesbaden, 2024. — 342 p. — eBook ISBN 978-3-658-46079-2. Provides interesting, easily understandable, and balanced guidance on a complex topic. Describes the origin and development history of modern IT. Shows the economic, political, and social impacts of IT. Modern information technology permeates and transforms our world—far more intensely than most of us realize....
Princeton University Press, 2013. — 228 p. — ISBN 9780691151007, 0691151008. Boolean algebra, also called Boolean logic, is at the heart of the electronic circuitry in everything we use—from our computers and cars, to home appliances. How did a system of mathematics established in the Victorian era become the basis for such incredible technological achievements a century later?...
Random House, 2001. — 320 p. — ISBN-10 0375758283; ISBN-13 978-0375758287. 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 ingenious young Americans. Jack...
Springer, 2025. — 481 p. — ISBN 978-981-96-3200-8. Руководство для собеседования с инженером Python в Кремниевой долине: структура данных, алгоритм и проектирование системы Silicon Valley Python Interview Guide: Data Structures, Algorithms, and System Design is an essential resource for aspiring software engineers preparing for technical interviews at top-tier companies. This...
Basic Books, 2015. — 560 p. — ISBN 9780465055623, 0465055621. Our world today -- from the phone in your pocket to the car that you drive, the allure of social media to the strategy of the Pentagon -- has been shaped irrevocably by the technology of silicon transistors. Year after year, for half a century, these tiny switches have enabled ever-more startling capabilities. Their...
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