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Apple Confidential 2.0: The Definitive History of the World's Most Colorful Company
by Owen W. Linzmayer  Publisher Comments Apple Confidential examines the tumultuous history of America's best-known Silicon Valley start-up--from its legendary founding almost 30 years ago, through a series of disastrous executive decisions, to its return to...
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History of Modern Computing
by Paul E Ceruzzi Publisher Comments This engaging history covers modern computing from the development of the first electronic digital computer through the advent of the World Wide Web. The author concentrates on four key moments of transition: the transformation of the computer in the...
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The Silicon Eye: Microchip Swashbucklers and the Future of High-Tech Innovation (Enterprise)
by George Gilder Synopsis Technology insider George Gilder delivers a "compelling" ("Wired") look under the hood at a genius-fueled startup. Thanks to the digital technology revolution, cameras are everywhere--PDAs, phones, anywhere you can put an imaging chip and a lens...
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The Soul of a New Machine
by Tracy Kidder Publisher Comments Tracy Kidder's Pulitzer Prize winning phenomenon! From the bestselling author of "House and "Among Schoolchildren comes the astonishing true story of the "Hardy Boys" and "Microkids" of Data General Corporation--dedicated technological wizards who...
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A History of Modern Computing
by Paul E. Ceruzzi Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [351]-430) and index....
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Before the Computer Ibm NCR Burrough
by James W Cortada Publisher Comments Before the Computer fully explores the data processing industry in the United States from its nineteenth-century inception down to the period when the computer became its primary tool. As James Cortada describes what was once called the "office appliance...
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Barbarians Led By Bill Gates: Microsoft from the Inside - How the World's Richest Corporation Wields Its Power
by Marlin Eller Publisher Comments "Microsoft, a rather new corporation, may not have matured to the position where it understands how it should act with respect to the public interest."-U.S. District Judge Stanley Sporkin. Teamed with the daughter of one of Bill Gates's closest...
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Open Sources
by Chris Dibona Publisher Comments Freely available source code, with contributions from thousands of programmers around the world: this is the spirit of the softwarerevolution known as Open Source. In "Open Sources, leaders of OpenSource come together for the first time to discuss the...
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Eniac the Triumphs & Tragedies of The
by Scott Mccartney Publisher Comments The untold story of the first computer--and the unsung lives of its two brilliant inventors....
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From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism
by Fred Turner Publisher Comments In the early 1960s, computers haunted the American popular imagination. Bleak tools of the cold war, they embodied the rigid organization and mechanical conformity that made the military-industrial complex possible. But by the 1990s, and the dawn of the...
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A Brief History of Computing
by Gerard Oregan Publisher Comments The history of computing has its origins at the outset of civilization. As towns and communities evolved there was a need for increasingly sophisticated calculations. This book traces the evolution of computation, from early civilisations 3000 B.C. to...
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Discovery, Innovation, and Risk: Case Studies in Science and Technology (Special Issues of Physica D)
by Newton Copp Publisher Comments How do scientific principles work in the real world? Discovery, Innovation, and Risk presents brief descriptions of selected scientific principles in the context of interesting technological examples to illustrate the complex interplay among science...
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The soul of a new machine
by Tracy Kidder Publisher Comments 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...
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World War 3.0: Microsoft and Its Enemies
by Ken Auletta Publisher Comments The Internet Revolution, like all great industrial changes, has made the world's elephantine media companies tremble that their competitors-whether small and nimble mice or fellow elephants-will get to new terrain first and seize its commanding heights...
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Digital Retro: Evolution & Design of the Personal Computer
by Gordon Laing Publisher Comments The late Seventies to the early Nineties was a completely unique period in the history of computing. Long before Microsoft and Intel ruled the PC world, a disparate variety of home computers, from an unlikely array of suppliers, were engaging in a battle...
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Computer Science Education in the 21st Century: Reflections on a Rapidly Changing Discipline
by Tony Greening Publisher Comments The world is experiencing unprecedented rapidity of change, originating from pervasive technological developments. These developments are fundamentally reliant on the changing face of computing. Computers are a near-ubiquitous feature on the modern...
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The Cult of Mac (Paperback Edition)
by Leander Kahney Publisher Comments Describes the psyche of Macintosh fans and the subculture they have created....
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Inside Cisco: The Real Story of Sustained M&A Growth
by Ed Paulson Publisher Comments An insider reveals the core strategies behind Cisco's phenomenal success Most savvy business observers agree that the major component in Cisco's phenomenal growth has been their unwavering commitment to expanding their product line through aggressive...
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The Cult of Mac
by Leander Kahney Publisher Comments There is no product on the planet that enjoys the devotion of a Macintosh computer. Famously dedicated to their machines, many Mac fans eat, sleep and breathe the Macintosh. The Cult of Mac is the first book about Macintosh culture, arguably the largest...
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Architects of the Information Society: Thirty-Five Years of the Laboratory for Computer Science at Mit
by Simson Garfinkel Publisher Comments The Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS) has been responsible for some of the most significant technological achievements of the past few decades. Much of the hardware and software driving the information...
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