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Sphere is a 1987 novel by Michael Crichton, his sixth novel under his own name and his sixteenth overall.It was adapted into the film Sphere in 1998. [1]The story follows Norman Johnson, a psychologist engaged by the United States Navy, who joins a team of scientists assembled to examine a spacecraft of unknown origin discovered on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.
The Pioneer Anomaly.This discusses the Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 space probes, which appear to be veering off course and drifting towards the sun. At the time of writing of the book there was a growing speculation as to whether this phenomenon could be explained by a yet-undetermined fault in the rockets' systems or whether this was an unidentified effect of gravity.
Timeline is a science fiction novel by American writer Michael Crichton, his twelfth under his own name and twenty-second overall, published in November 1999.It tells the story of a group of history students who travel to 14th-century France to rescue their professor.
The book portrays AI out of control when a researcher in robotics explores the capacity of robots. [1] It is written in present tense. Writer Robert Crais and Booklist have compared the novel to the works of Michael Crichton and Robert A. Heinlein. It was a bestseller on the New York Times list. [2]
A Guide to Computer Literature. Archon Books. Rojas, Raul (2001). Encyclopedia of Computers and Computer History. Routledge. ISBN 1-57958-235-4. Tomash, Edwin; Williams, Michael R. (2009). The Erwin Tomash Library on the History of Computing: An Annotated and Illustrated Catalog. (privately printed). Yost, Jeffrey R. (2002).
From selling newspapers to selling computers, Michael Dell has always been about taking risks. Michael Dell founded his $62 billion company—once the world’s largest PC maker—as a 19-year-old ...
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Donald Knuth - The Art of Computer Programming; Ellen Ullman - Close to the Machine; Ellis Horowitz - Fundamentals of Computer Algorithms; Eric Raymond - The Art of Unix Programming; Gerald M. Weinberg - The Psychology of Computer Programming; James Gosling - The Java Programming Language; Joel Spolsky - The Best Software Writing I