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Steven Levy - Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution; Douglas Thomas - Hacker Culture; Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution; Suelette Dreyfus - Underground: Hacking, Madness and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier; Eric S. Raymond - The New Hacker's Dictionary; Sam Williams - Free as in Freedom; Bruce Sterling - The Hacker ...
Books about computer and internet companies (5 C, 10 P) Books about Linux (7 P) C. Computer science books (8 C, 51 P) Cryptography books (1 C, 18 P) D.
Computer Literature Survey: A Key to the Language of Computers. IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. Misa, Thomas J. (2009). "Bibliography for History of Computing". Charles Babbage Institute; Pritchard, Alan (1969). A Guide to Computer Literature. Archon Books. Rojas, Raul (2001). Encyclopedia of Computers and Computer History. Routledge.
A computer keyboard is a peripheral input device modeled after the typewriter keyboard [1] [2] ... a Linotype-composed book from the 1940s). In other words, to ...
The Secret Guide to Computers is a book on computer hardware and software techniques by Russ Walter. [1] The book was written to be useful in both teaching and professional environments. [2] Its goal is to describe everything necessary to become a "computer expert," covering philosophies, technicalities, hardware, software, theory, and practice ...
A power of two program running in a CARDIAC emulator. The program outputs 1, 2, 4, 8, …, 512 and halts after 277 steps. CARDIAC (CARDboard Illustrative Aid to Computation) is a learning aid developed by David Hagelbarger and Saul Fingerman for Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1968 to teach high school students how computers work.
A human computer, with microscope and calculator, 1952. It was not until the mid-20th century that the word acquired its modern definition; according to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first known use of the word computer was in a different sense, in a 1613 book called The Yong Mans Gleanings by the English writer Richard Brathwait: "I haue [] read the truest computer of Times, and the best ...
The book, whose author was described by the New York Times as having "elevated it to a high level of narrative art" [2] is "about real people working on a real computer for a real company," [3] and it won the 1982 National Book Award for Nonfiction [4] and a Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.