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Railroad Club [Sept 6], Lincoln Why did Babbage fail Lundstrom was at Univac [Oct Lab [June 26]. technically [Jan 21] and the 00] from 1953 to 1963, and Scheutzes [Sept 23] fail also describes the rise and fall 2) Hardware Hackers: Mid commercially? Also: [Essinger; of CDC [July 8]. 1970s - 1980. The Homebrew Swade]. Computer Club [March 5], the Altair 8800 [Dec 19], TRS-80 Owen W. Linzmayer, "Apple [Aug 3], the Apple II [June 5]. Confidential 2.0: The Definitive M Also: [Markoff]. History of the World's Most Colorful Company", No Starch John MacCormick, "Nine 3) Game Hackers: Late 1970s - Press, 2004. Algorithms That Changed the 1982. Sierra On-Line [Oct 30]. Apple [Dec 12] gossip, history, Future: The Ingenious Ideas trivia, and lore. Also: [Carlton; That Drive Today's Computers", Steven Levy, "Insanely Great: Hertzfeld; Issacson; Levy; Princeton Univ. Press, 2012. The Life and Times of Macintosh, Schlender Weyhrich; The algorithms covered are: the Computer that Changed Wozniak]. search engine indexing, Everything", Viking Adult, 1994. PageRank [Aug 29], public key Links the Mac's GUI [Jan 24] to Jessica Livingston, "Founders at cryptography [Aug 00], error- Xerox PARC [Dec 00], and Work: Stories of Startups' Early correcting codes, pattern DARPA's [Feb 7] sponsored Days", Apress, 2008. recognition, data compression, work in the 1950's and 1960's. Interviews mainly with Web databases, digital signatures, Also: [Freiberger; Hertzfeld; startup founders from 1995- and "What is Computable?" Menuez]. 2005: Max Levchin [Feb 15], [April 28]. Sabeer Bhatia [July 4], Steve Steven Levy, "Crypto: How the Wozniak [Aug 11], Joe Kraus, Jimmy Maher, "The Future was Code Rebels Beat the Dan Bricklin [July 16], Mitchell Here: The Commodore Amiga", Government -- Saving Privacy in Kapor [Nov 1], Ray Ozzie [Nov MIT Press, 2012. the Digital Age", Viking Adult;, 20], Evan Williams [Aug 23], Commodore, with an emphasis 2001. Tim Brady, Mike Lazaridis on the Amiga 1000 [July 23], Cryptography from the mid- [March 7], Arthur van Hoff. and detailed descriptions of 1970's, and specifically Also: [Biancuzzi; Lammers; software. Also: [Bagnall]. Whitfield Diffie [June 5] and O'Regan; Seibel; Shasha; Martin Hellman's [Oct 2] work. Slater]. Julien Mailland, Kevin Driscoll, Light on technical details. Also: "Minitel: Welcome to the [Kahn]. Bo Lojek, "History of Internet", MIT Press, 2017. Semiconductor Engineering", An in-depth analysis of the Steven Levy, "In The Plex: How Springer, 2006. Minitel [May 10], the Google Thinks, Works, and A personal narrative going pioneering French computer Shapes Our Lives", Simon & back to the early days of Silicon network. Schuster, 2011. Valley, with appearances by A layman's description of how William Shockley [Feb 13], Michael S. Malone, "The Google search was developed Kurt Lehovec [June 12], Jean Microprocessor: A Biography", [Aug 29]. Also: [Arthur; Hoerni [Sept 26], Frank Springer, 1995. Vogelstein]. Wanlass [May 17], and Looks at early Intel (4004 [Nov Federico Faggin [Dec 1]. Also: 15], 8080 [April 18]) and Andrew Lih, "The Wikipedia [Lecuyer; Malone; Thackray]. Motorola units [March 7]. Also: Revolution: How a Bunch of [Lecuyer; Lojek; Malone Nobodies Created the World's Herman Lukoff, "From Dits to (below); Thackray]. Greatest Encyclopedia", Bits: A Personal History of the Hyperion, 2009. Electronic Computer", Robotics Michael S. Malone, "The Intel The beginnings of Wikipedia Press, 1979. Trinity: How Robert Noyce, [jan 15], with Ward Personal tales of developing Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Cunningham [May 26], Larry the EDSAC [May 6], UNIVAC I built the World's most Sanger, and the roles of Usenet [March 31], LARC [March 00] Important Company", Harper [Jan 29], Hypercard [Aug 11], with John Mauchly [Aug 30] Business, 2014. Nupedia [March 9], and and J. Presper Eckert [April 9], Begins at Fairchild MeatballWiki. and the Remington Rand Semiconductor [Oct 1] as Univac [May 29]. Lots of Noyce (also: [Berlin; Reid]) and Michael Lindgren, Craig G. technical details, and great Moore decide to leave to start McKay (translator), "Glory and B/W photographs. Intel [July 18], and continues Failure: The Difference Engines up to the 1990s. Also: of Johann Muller, Charles David E. Lundstrom, "A Few [Lecuyer; Lojek; Malone Babbage and Georg and Edvard Good Men from Univac", MIT (above); Shurkin; Thackray]. Scheutz", MIT Press, 1990. Press, 1987.

Kevin Maney, "The Maverick and [Hafner; MItnick; Poulsen; Yars' Revenge, Pitfall! [April His Machine: Thomas Watson, Stoll]. 25], and Star Wars: The Empire Sr. and the Making of IBM", Strikes Back [May 4]. Also: Wiley, 2003. Doug Menuez, "Fearless Genius: [Donovan; Herman; Kent; Connects Watson [Feb 17] and the Digital Revolution in Silicon Ramsay]. IBM to various world events, Valley 1985-2000", Atria Books, including both world wars, and 2014. Glyn Moody, "Rebel Code: Linux various American presidents. Over 100 B/W photographs and the Open Source Also: [Bashe; Cortada; Grosch]. documenting Silicon Valley's Revolution", Basic Books, 2001. rise [May 22]. The beginning of The beginnings of free John Markoff, "What the the book is about the creation software as seen through Dormouse said: How the Sixties and launch of the NeXT [Oct several of its larger projects: Counterculture Shaped the 12]. Also: [Freiberger; Linux, Perl [Dec 18], Xfree86 Personal Computer Industry", Hertzfeld]. [June 19], Apache [Dec 1], Viking Adult, 2005. Emacs [Oct 2], Hurd [June 28]. A bright evocation of Stanford Nicholas Metropolis, J. Howlett, Also: [Raymond; Torvalds; in the 1960s and 1970s (up to Gian-Carlo Rota (eds.) "History Weber; Williams]. 1977): Doug Engelbart (see of Computing in the Twentieth [Bardini]) at SRI, John Century", Academic Press, 1980. Christopher L. Morgan, "The McCarthy’s SAIL [Sept 4], Based on papers by many Computer Museum Presents the Stewart Brand [Dec 14], Alan pioneers presented at a 1976 Official Computer Bowl Trivia Kay [May 17], Ken Kesey, Cap'n Los Alamos conference. Book", Crown Trade, 1996. Crunch [March 11], and the Contributors include: R.W. The questions asked during the Homebrew Computer Club Hamming [Feb 11], I.J. Good first six "Computer Bowls" [Oct [March 5]. Also: [Levy; Turner]. [Dec 9], S.M. Ulam [April 13], 7], along with hundreds of new J.H. Wilkinson [Sept 27], John ones. Also: [Ditlea; Rochester; Scott McCartney, "ENIAC: The Backus [Dec 3], Andrei P. Simons]. Triumphs and Tragedies of the Ershov [April 19], Donald E. World's First Computer", Walker Knuth [Jan 10], Julian Bigelow Charles J. Murray, "The & Co, 1999. [March 19], Arthur W. Burks Supermen: the Story of Seymour The lives of J. Presper Eckert [Oct 13], J.C. Chu [July 14], Cray and the Technical Wizards [April 9] and John Mauchly Cuthbert C. Hurd [April 5], behind the Supercomputer", [Aug 30] told through their Harry D. Huskey [Jan 19], Jan Wiley, 1997. development of the ENIAC [Feb Rajchman [Aug 10], George R. An excellent account of Cray 15], and the UNIVAC [March Stibitz [Apil 30], Maurice V. [Sept 28], his company, and the 31] at EMCC [Dec 8]. A useful Wilkes [June 26], Friedrich L. evolution of the contrast to [Goldstine]'s book. Bauer [June 10], J. Presper supercomputer. Also: [Stern]. Eckert [April 9], John W. Mauchly [Aug 30], Edsger W. Brian McCullough, "How the Dijkstra [May 11], H. Zemanek Internet Happened: From [Jan 1], Konrad Zuse [June 22]. N Netscape to the iPhone", Also: [Rojas]. Liveright, 2018. Theodor H. Nelson [June 17], How the commercial Internet Kevin D. Mitnick [Feb 15], "Computer Lib / Dream (e.g. Netscape [March 25], AOL William L. Simon, "The Art of Machines", Revised Microsoft [Oct 2], Ebay [Sept 3], Amazon Intrusion: the Real Stories Press, 1987. Behind the Exploits of Hackers, [July 16], Yahoo! [March 2], An opinionated survey of the Intruders and Deceivers", Wiley, Google [Sept 15]) grew from computing world from 1974, 2005. the early 1990s until the consisting of two books launch of the iPhone [Jan 9]. High-profile hacker stories printed on mirrored pages: Also: [Banks; Cassidy; Quittner; covering casinos, prisons, "Computer Lib: You Can and Reid; Swisher]. aircraft companies, newspaper Must Understand Computers companies, banks, and Now" and "Dream Machines: Joseph Menn, "Fatal System hospitals. Also: [Hafner; Menn; New Freedoms Through Error: The Hunt for the New Poulsen; Stoll]. Computer Screens -- A Crime Lords Who are Bringing Minority Report". Down the Internet", Nick Montfort, Ian Bogost, PublicAffairs, 2010. "Racing the Beam: The Atari Harvey P. Newquist, "The BrAIn Describes some of the cyber Video Computer System", MIT Makers: Genius, Ego, and Greed security milestones between Press, 2009. in the Quest for Machines that 1995 and 2009, such as the How the Atari VCS / 2600 [Oct Think", Sams, 1994. Russian Business Network 14] was developed by Entertaining anecdotes from [June 8] and the Chinese considering the features used the professional lives of AI Network Crack group. Also: in six games: Combat, pioneers. Also: [Husbands; Adventure, Pac-Man [April 3], Nilsson; Roland].

Nils J. Nilsson, "The Quest for Hollerith [Feb 29], Grace A good overview of the AI", Cambridge Univ. Press, Murray Hopper [Dec 9], Watts problem of software safety. 2009. Humphrey [July 4], Kenneth Examples include the Therac- A history of AI, with enough Iverson [Dec 17], Ivor Jacobson 25 bug [Feb 10], France's technical detail but still [July 30], Steve Jobs [Feb 24], accident-prone Airbus A320, remaining readable. Also: Gary Kildall [May 19], Donald Russia's loss of two Mars [Husbands; Newquist; Roland]. Knuth [Jan 10], John Mauchly probes [July 21], and the [Aug 30], John McCarthy [Sept impending (at the time) Y2K Jeremy M. Norman, "From 4], Marvin Minsky [Aug 9], apocalypse [Dec 31]. Gutenberg to the Internet: A Gordon Moore [Jan 3], Ken Sourcebook on the History of Olsen [Feb 20], David Parnas Charles Petzold, "Code: The Information Technology", [Feb 10], Dennis Ritchie [Sept Hidden Language of Computer Norman Publishing, 2005. 9], Dana Scott [Oct 11], John Hardware and Software", Sixty-three definitive papers Searle [July 31], Claude Microsoft Press, 2000. on computing, networking, and Shannon [April 30], William An excellent layman's telecommunications arranged Shockley [Feb 13], Christopher explanation of computers by thematically. The table of Strachey [Nov 16], Bjarne focusing on history and contents can be found at Stroustrup [Dec 30], Ken employing everyday objects http://www.historyofscien Thompson [Feb 4], Alan Turing and familiar systems such as ce.com/G2I/#toc. Also: [June 23], John von Neumann Braille and Morse code [Jan 6]. [Laplante]. [Dec 28], Thomas Watson Also: [Blum; Dewdney; Hillis]. Sr./Jr. [Feb 17; Jan 14], Joseph James M. Nyce, Paul Kahn, "From Weizenbaum [Jan 8], Frederick Charles Petzold, "The Annotated Memex to Hypertext: Vannevar Williams [June 26], Niklaus Turing: A Guided Tour Through Bush and the Mind's Machine", Wirth [Feb 15], Ed Yourdan, Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Academic Press, 1991. Konrad Zuse [June 22]. Also: Computability and the Turing Bush's [March 11] essays, and [Biancuzzi; Lammers; Machine", Wiley, 2008. articles by other researchers Livingston; Seibel; Shasha; Turing's [June 23] paper "On on personal computing, Slater]. Computable Numbers, with an hypertext and information Application to the Severo M. Ornstein, "Computing retrieval. Also: [Zachary]. Entscheidungsproblem" [Nov in the Middle Ages: A View from 12] with the addition of, on the Trenches 1955-1983", average, a paragraph of AuthorHouse, 2002. explanation for each line of Personal stories [Oct 13] about Turing's prose. There's also an O working on the Whirlwind extensive introduction to Frank O'Brien, "The Apollo [April 20], LINC [May 24], and important background Guidance Computer: at Xerox PARC [July 1]. concepts. Also: [Copeland; Architecture and Operation", Davis; Hodges; Lavington]. Springer Praxis, 2010. The development of the Apollo Clifford A. Pickover, "Computers, Guidance Computer [Aug 25], P Pattern, Chaos and Beauty: discussing its hardware, Graphics from an Unseen software, and programming Justin Peters, "The Idealist: World", St. Martin's Press, 1990. Aaron Swartz and the Rise of features. Also: [Eyles]. A well-written introduction to Free Culture on the Internet", the use of computer graphics Gerard O’Regan, "Giants of Scribner, 2016. to describe and illustrate Computing: A Compendium of Swartz [Nov 8] and the war mathematics and natural Select, Pivotal Pioneers", between American copyright phenomena. The book includes Springer, 2013. laws and free information. 200 B/W images and eight Mini-biographies of 59 giants: pages in color, along with Howard Aiken [March 8], John Jamie Parker Pearson, "Digital at pseudocode. If you like this, try Atanasoff [Oct 4], John Backus work: Snapshots from the first the follow-up: "Computers and [Dec 3], Tim Berners-Lee [June thirty-five years", Digital Press, the Imagination: Visual 8], Dines Bjorner, Fred Brooks 1992. Adventures Beyond the Edge" [April 19], Vannevar Bush The first thirty-five years of (1991). [March 11], Vint Cerf [June 23], DEC [Aug 23] told through Tom DeMarco [Aug 20], Edger numerous personal accounts, Boisy G. Pitre, Bill Loguidice, Dijkstra [May 11], Larry Ellison and a wealth of photos from "CoCo: The Colorful History of [Aug 17], Don Estridge [June Digital's archives. Also: [Rifkin; Tandy’s Underdog Computer", 23], Michael Fagan, Tommy Schein]. Routledge, 2013. Flowers [Dec 22], Robert Floyd The history of the TRS-80 [June 8], Bill Gates [Oct 28], Ivars Peterson, "Fatal Defect: Color Computer [July 31], James Gosling [May 19], C.A.R Chasing Killer Computer Bugs", along with stories about the Hoare [Jan 11], Hermann Crown, 1995. early days of Tandy.

Kevin Poulsen, "Kingpin: How Morgan Ramsay, "Gamers at projects, and the formation of One Hacker Took Over the Work: Stories Behind the Games the MITRE cooperation [July Billion-Dollar Cybercrime People Play", Apress, 2012. 21]; the politics are described Underground", Crown, 2011. Interviews about the business in some detail. Also: [Akera]. The cyber crime world of the side of the gaming industry. early 2000's, focuses primarily Interviewees include: Trip Robert H. Reid, "Architects of the on Max Butler. Also: [Hafner; Hawkins [May 27], Nolan Web: 1,000 Days that Built the Menn; Mitnick; Stoll]. Bushnell [Feb 5], Bill Stealey Future of Business", Wiley, [Feb 24], Warren Spector [June 1997. Mark Priestley, "IBM's 360 and 17], Doug and Gary Carlston Looks at the development of Early 370 Systems", Emerson W. [Feb 25], Don Daglow [Sept Netscape [March 25], Pugh, Lyle R. Johnson, John H. 12]. Also: [Donovan; Herman; RealAudio [April 10], Java [May Palmer, MIT Press, 1991. Kent; Montfort]. 23], VRML, Yahoo!, HotWired The origins and development [Oct 27], and CNET [March 5] of IBM systems [April 7] Joy Lisi Rankin, "A People's by focussing on Marc between 1960 and 1975. A History of Computing in the Andreessen [July 9], Rob great mix of technical detail United States", Harvard Univ. Glaser, Kim Polese [Jan 00], and information about the Press, 2018. Mark Pesce, Ariel Poler, Jerry people involved. Also: [Bashe; This book explicitly positions Yang [Nov 6], Andrew Anker, Cortada; Grosch; Maney]. itself as a corrective to what Halsey Minor. Also: the author calls ‘Silicon Valley [McCullough]. Mark Priestley, "A Science of mythology' (i.e. a focus on Operations: Machines, Logic and Apple, Stanford, and Xerox T.R. Reid, "The Chip: How Two the Invention of Programming", PARC). It treads a different Americans Invented the Springer, 2011. path, looking the origins of the Microchip and Launched a A history of programming DTSS [May 1], the People's Revolution", Simon and widened to include more Computer Company [Oct 00], Schuster, 1985. general computations and the Huntington Project, the The business and technical other information-processing Minnesota Educational issues faced by Jack Kilby [Nov activities. Also: [Biancuzzi; Computing Consortium 8] and Robert Noyce [Dec 12] Sammet]. (MECC), and the PLATO System (also [Berlin]), and especially (see [Dear]). the legal battle between Texas Instruments [Oct 1] and Eric S. Raymond, "The Cathedral Fairchild [Oct 1] over the IC & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux patent. Q and Open Source by an Joshua Quittner, Michelle Accidental Revolutionary", Edwin D. Reilly, "Milestones in Slatalla, "Speeding the Net: the O'Reilly Media, 1999. Computer Science and Inside Story of Netscape and The text (with some additions) Information Technology", how it Changed the World", of the author's [Dec 4] speech Greenwood Publishing, 2003. Atlantic Monthly Press, 1998. at the 1997 Linux Kongress. It Over 650 alphabetically Details about almost every contrasts the corporate form of arranged articles, each 250- person involved in the making software development (the 500 words long, subdivided of Netscape [March 25] and Cathedral) with open source into the categories: hardware, Mosaic. Also: [McCullough]. (the Bazaar). Also: [Moody; software, theory, mathematics, Torvalds; Weber; Williams]. programming, languages, memory, architecture,

Eric S. Raymond, Guy L. Steele applications, and graphics. [Oct 2], "The New Hacker's Also: [Ralston]. R Dictionary", MIT Press, 1996. Glenn Rifkin, George Harrar, Anthony Ralston, Edwin D. A great book if you want to talk "The Ultimate Entrepreneur: the Reilly, and David to developers transported Story of Ken Olsen and Digital Hemmendinger "Encyclopedia of from the 1970s-1990's. It Equipment Corporation", Computer Science", Wiley, 4 ed., eschews words like "click", Contemporary Books, 1988. 2003. "webpage", preferring A history of DEC and Olsen Over 600 short articles "foobar", "warez d00dz", etc... [Feb 20] up to around 1987 classified into nine main before he was ousted by the themes: hardware, software, Kent C. Redmond, Thomas company's Board of Directors. computer systems, information Malcolm Smith, William Aspray Also: [Pearson; Schein]. and data, mathematics of "From Whirlwind to MITRE: The computing, theory of R&D Story of The SAGE Air Jack B. Rochester, John Gantz, computation, methodologies, Defense Computer", MIT Press, "The Naked Computer: A applications, computing 2000. Layperson's Almanac of milieux. Also: [Reilly]. Accounts of the SAGE [July 26] and Whirlwind [April 20] Computer Lore, Wizardry,

Personalities, Memorabilia, Jon Postel [Aug 6], and others. Dennis Shasha, Cathy Lazere, World Records, Mind Blowers, Also: [Hafner; Waldrop]. "Out of their Minds: the Lives and Tomfoolery", William and Discoveries of 15 Great Morrow, 1983. Jean E. Sammet, "Programming Computer Scientists", Springer, Trivia and history from the Languages: History and 1995. 1980s. Also: [Ditlea; Morgan; Fundamentals", Prentice Hall, Profiles and interviews with: Simons]. 1969. John Backus [Dec 3], Frederick Covers about 120 languages, P. Brooks [April 19], Stephen Raul Rojas, Ulf Hashagen (eds.), split into the categories: Cook [Dec 14], Edsger W. "The First Computers: History languages for numerical Dijkstra [May 11], Edward A. and Architectures", MIT Press, scientific problems, business Feigenbaum [Jan 20], W. Daniel 2002 (revised). data processing problems, Hillis [Sept 25], Alan C. Kay Papers presented at the string and list processing, [May 17], Donald E. Knuth [Jan "International Conference on formal algebraic manipulation, 10], Leslie Lamport [Feb 7], the History of Computing" in unimplemented concepts. Also: Douglas B. Lenat [Sept 13], 1998, including many first- [Biancuzzi; Priestley]. Leonid Levin [Nov 2], John hand accounts of McCarthy [Sept 4], Mchael O. developments in America, Edgar Schein, Paul Kampas, Rabin [Sept 1], Burton J. Smith, England, Japan, and Germany Michael Sonduck, Michael Robert E. Tarjan [April 30]. in the 1930s, 1940s, and Sonduck "DEC is Dead, Long Live Also: [Biancuzzi; Lammers; 1950s. Also: [Metropolis]. DEC: the Lasting Legacy of Livingston; O'Regan; Seibel; Digital Equipment Corporation", Slater]. Alex Roland, Philip Shiman, Berrett-Koehler Pub., 2003. "Strategic Computing: DARPA The creation, demise, and David Sheff, "Game Over: How and the Quest for Machine legacy of DEC, with an Nintendo Conquered The Intelligence, 1983-1993", MIT emphasis on its unique World", Vintage, 1994. Press, 2002. organizational culture A business history of Nintendo DARPA's [Feb 7] 1980's established by Ken Olsen [Feb [Sept 23]. Also: [Altice; Harris]. funding of AI research, and 20]. Also: [Pearson; Rifkin]. specifically the Strategic Stephanie Shirley, Richard Computing Initiative [Oct 28]. Brent Schlender, Rick Tetzeli, Askwith "Let It Go: My Also: [Husbands; Newquist; "Becoming Steve Jobs: The Extraordinary Story - From Nilsson]. Evolution of a Reckless Upstart Refugee to Entrepreneur to into a Visionary Leader", Crown Philanthropist", Portfolio Scott Rosenberg, "Dreaming in Business, 2015. Penguin, 2019. Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Primarily about Jobs' [Feb 24] An inspiring memoir by Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and time at NeXT [Oct 12] and Stephanie Shirley [Sept 16]. One Quest for Transcendent Pixar [Feb 3]. Also: [Carlton; Also: [Beyer]. Software", Crown, 2007. Hertzfeld; Issacson; Levy; A detailed description of the Linzmayer; Weyhrich; Joel N. Shurkin, "Broken Genius: Chandler project (Personal Wozniak]. The Rise and Fall of William Information Shockley, Creator of the Manager(PIM)/Groupware Peter Seibel, "Coders at Work: Electronic Age", Palgrave software) led by Mitch Kapor Reflections on the Craft of Macmillan, 2006. [Nov 1]. Programming", Apress, 2009. The first 2/3's of the book is Interviews with 15 about Shockley's [Feb 13] programmers including: Fran engineering accomplishments Allen [Aug 4], Joe Armstrong (but without much technical S [Dec 27], Joshua Bloch [Aug detail); you should stop there 28], Bernie Cosell [Aug 30], since the last third is about his Peter H. Salus, "A Quarter Douglas Crockford [Sept 3], L views of eugenics. Also: Century of UNIX", Addison- Peter Deutsch [Aug 7], [Lecuyer; Lojek; Malone; Wesley, 1994. Brendan Eich [July 4], Brad Thackray]. Technical interviews with Fitzpatrick [April 15], Simon UNIX insiders. Also: Peyton Jones [Jan 18], Donald Geoff L. Simons, "Computer Bits [Kernighan]. Knuth [Jan 10], Dan Ingalls and Pieces: A Compendium of [Oct 12], Peter Norvig [Dec 14], Curiosities", Penguin Books, Peter H. Salus, "Casting the Net: Guy Steele [Oct 2], Ken 1984. From ARPANET to Internet and Thompson [Feb 4], Jamie Trivia, lore, and history from Beyond", Addison-Wesley, 1995. Zawinski [Nov 3]. Also: the 1980s. Also: [Ditlea; [Biancuzzi; Lammers; A history of the ARPANET [Oct Morgan; Rochester]. Livingston; O'Regan; Shasha; 29] focusing on design Slater]. decisions and standards. Based Robert Slater, "Portraits in on interviews with Vint Cerf Silicon", MIT Press, 1989. [June 23], Bob Kahn [Dec 23],

Starts with an essay on Charles computers [July 21]. Also: Clifford Stoll, "The Cuckoo's Egg: Babbage [Dec 26], and then [Hiltzik]. Tracking a Spy Through the looks at thirty 20th century Maze of Computer Espionage", pioneers, with each article Jimmy Soni, Rob Goodman, "A Doubleday, 1989. about 10 to 15 pages long: Mind at Play: How Claude The hunt [June 4] for the Howard Aiken [March 8], Gene Shannon Invented the hacker who broke into the Amdahl [Nov 16], John V. Information Age", Simon and Lawrence Berkeley National Atanasoft [Oct 4], John Backus Schuster, 2017. Lab in the mid-1980s; [Dec 3], Gordon Bell [Aug 19], A superb biography of humorous and even something Dan Bricklin [July 16], Nolan Shannon [April 30], but with of a thriller. Also: [Hafner; Bushnell [Feb 5], Seymour only basic information on Menn; Mitnick; Poulsen]. Cray [Sept 28], Jay W. Information Theory. Also: Forrester [July 14], Ted Hoff [Gleick]. Brad Stone, "The Everything [Oct 28], Bill Gates [Oct 28], Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Steve Jobs [Feb 24], John Donald D. Spencer, "The Amazon", Little, Brown and Kemeny [May 31] and Thomas Timetable of Computers: A Company, 2013. Kurtz [Feb 22], Jack Kilby [Nov Chronology of the Most Amazon’s history and culture, 8], Gary Kildall [May 19], Important People and Events in highlighting Bezos' [Jan 12] Donald Knuth [Jan 10], John V. the History of Computers", ruthless approach to business Mauchly [Aug 30] and J. Camelot, 1999. and e-commerce. Presper Eckert [April 9], Three or four-line descriptions William Millard [Sept 21], of key developments organized Doron Swade, "The Difference Grace Murray Hopper [Dec 9], by date, with many photos and Engine: Charles Babbage and the William Norris [July 14], illustrations. Quest to Build the First Robert Noyce [Dec 12], Adam Computer", Viking Adult, 2001. Osborne [March 6], H. Ross Tom Standage, "The Victorian A highly readable life and Perot [June 27], Dennis Ritchie Internet: the Remarkable Story work, with the addition of a [Sept 9] and Kenneth of the Telegraph and the modern day story about Thompson [Feb 4], Claude Nineteenth Century's On-line building Babbage's Difference Shannon [April 30], William Pioneers", Walker, 1998. Engine No. 2 [Dec 26] in time Shockley [Feb 13], Alan Turing How the telegraph [Oct 19] for the Bicentenary of his birth. [June 23], John von Neumann developed, while drawing Also: [Essinger; Lindgren]. [Dec 28], Thomas J. Watson similarities to today's Internet. [Feb 17], Konrad Zuse [June Also: [Wu]. Kara Swisher, "Aol.com: How 22]. Also: [Biancuzzi; Steve Case Beat Bill Gates, Lammers; Livingston; O'Regan; Dorothy Stein, "Ada: A Life and a Nailed the Netheads, and Made Seibel; Shasha]. Legacy", MIT Press, 1985. Millions in the War for the Web", Crown Business, 1998. James S. Small, "The Analogue Lovelace's life [Dec 10] told Alternative: the Electronic through excerpts from her Steve Case's [Aug 21] Analogue Computer in Britain letters and other documents; transformation of AOL [Oct 2] and the USA, 1930-1975", but without much information into an online media titan. The Routledge, 2001. on her contributions to book ends before the Time computing. Also: [Essinger]. Warner merger [Jan 10], which A history of analog computers was the subject of another [Jan 24], but without much Bruce Sterling, "The Hacker book by Swisher. Also: [Banks; technical information. Also: Crackdown, Law and Disorder Cassidy; McCullough]. [Aspray; Ceruzzi; Grier]. on the Electronic Frontier", Bantam, 1992. Jane Smiley, "The Man who Invented the Computer: The Internet criminal activity Biography of John Atanasoff, before the Web, so mostly T Digital Pioneer", Doubleday, related to phone phreaks [Oct 2010. 00] (see [Lapsley]), BBS Arnold Thackray, David Brock, hackers, and Bell South/AT&T. Rachel Jones "Moore's Law: The A life of Atanasoff [Oct 4], but Life of Gordon Moore, Silicon with little technical detail. Also: Nancy B. Stern, "From ENIAC to Valley's Quiet Revolutionary", [Burke]. UNIVAC: An Appraisal of the Basic Books, 2015. Eckert-Mauchy Computers", Moore's [Jan 3] many Douglas K. Smith, Robert C. Digital Press, 1981. Alexander "Fumbling the Future: contributions at Shockley [Feb How Xerox Invented, then The computers developed by 13], Fairchild [Oct 1], and Intel Ignored, the First Personal John W. Mauchly [Aug 30] and [July 18]. Also: [Lecuyer; Computer", William Morrow, J. Presper Eckert [April 9], Lojek; Malone]. 1988. concentrating on their technological aspects. Also: Linus Torvalds, David Diamond, An analysis of Xerox’s ill- [Goldstein; McCartney]. "Just for Fun: the Story of an considered move into personal

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Z G. Pascal Zachary, "Show stopper!: the Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft", Free Press, 1994. A bit light on the technical aspects of Windows NT [July 27], preferring to concentrate on the dynamics and personalities in the development team. Also: [Chen].

G. Pascal Zachary, "Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century", Free Press, 1997. Bush's [March 11] pre-war engineering work gets a mention, but most of the narrative is about his career as an administrator of the Manhattan Project, and as the architect of the National Science Foundation and wider US science policy after WWII. Also: [Nyce].

Kim Zetter, "Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon", Crown, 2014. The story behind the governmental development of malware (e.g. Stuxnet [July 15], Duqu, Flame, etc.), and the moral and legal consequences.