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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780972911986Author Gene DenkFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Productivity PublicationsPublisher Productivity PublicationsWeight(grams)...

#1 New York Times non-fiction bestseller #2 Sunday Times non-fiction bestsellerSHORTLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDCHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY APPLE, AMAZON, THE TIMES AND FINANCIAL TIMESEpic feats. Epic failures. An...

The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography From the best-selling author of Fermat's Last Theorem, The Code Book is a history of man's urge to uncover the secrets of codes, from Egyptian puzzles to modern day computer...

Cyber security is the greatest risk faced by financial institutions today, a risk they have understood and managed for decades longer than is commonly understood. Ever since the major London banks purchased their first computers in the early 1960s, they...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262047517Author Thomas S. MullaneyFormat HardbackPage Count 376Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262546263Author Christophe LecuyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780770436193Author Kim ZetterFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)Publisher...

'An excitable, high-octane account' - IndependentIn October 2022, Elon Musk marched through Twitter's front doors after buying the digital giant for $44 billion. His takeover came with the promise of fundamental change, but nothing could prepare the...

Over the past sixty years, the spectacular growth of the technologies associated with the computer is visible for all to see and experience. Yet, the science underpinning this technology is less visible and little understood outside the professional...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956507105Author Chris R. SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint ZX Design and MediaPublisher ZX Design and MediaWeight(grams) 436g

"Exposes the vast gap between the actual science underlying AI and the dramatic claims being made for it."-John Horgan"If you want to know about AI, read this book...It shows how a supposedly futuristic reverence for Artificial Intelligence retards...

Steven Levy's classic book about the original hackers of the computer revolution is now available in a special 25th anniversary edition, with updated material from noteworthy hackers such as Bill Gates, Mark Zukerberg, Richard Stallman, and Tim O'Reilly...

From Blaise Pascal in the 1600s to Charles Babbage in the first half of the nineteenth century, inventors struggled to create the first calculating machines. All failed but that doesn't mean we can't learn from the trail of ideas, correspondence,...

'A fascinating expose of the world behind your screen. Timely, often disturbing, and so important' Caroline Criado Perez, author of Invisible Women 'Takes us beyond Zuckerberg, Bezos et al to a murkier world where we discover how everything online...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913824044Author Corinne CathFormat PaperbackImprint Meatspace PressPublisher Meatspace PressDimensions(mm) 204mm * 130mm * 10mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780887309892Author Michael A HiltzikFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Harper BusinessPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

New York Times bestselling author Ben Mezrich pulls back the curtain on the most volatile, complex, and bizarre corporate takeover in history: Elon Musk's acquisition and subsequent occupation of Twitter.In October 2022, Elon Musk marched through...

Bootstrapping analyzes the genesis of personal computing from both technological and social perspectives, through a close study of the pathbreaking work of one researcher, Douglas Engelbart. In his lab at the Stanford Research Institute in the 1960s,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262533881Author Jon AgarFormat PaperbackPage Count 564Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

*Shortlisted for the British Book Design and Production Award for Graphic Novels*'A love letter to gaming in all its forms - from board games, to role-play, to virtual reality and video games. For fans of gaming, this is the perfect read. For those new...

At last - the secrets of Bletchley Park's powerful codebreaking computers. This is a history of Colossus, the world's first fully-functioning electronic digital computer. Colossus was used during the Second World War at the Government Code and Cypher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262049252Author Terrence J. SejnowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

As with any subculture, Apple fans have their own customs, obsessions, and rites of passage - from waiting in line to spend thousands of dollars on the newest Apple product, to attending Macworld year after year. This thoroughly revised edition of The...

PoC or GTFO, Volume 2 follows in the tradition of Phrack and Uninformed by publishing on the subjects of offensive security research, reverse engineering, and file format internals. Until the release of Volume 1, the journal had only been available...

The true, unvarnished history of the town at the heart of Silicon Valley.Palo Alto is nice. The weather is temperate, the people are educated, rich, healthy, enterprising. Remnants of a hippie counterculture have synthesized with high technology and big...

In 2004, Android was two people who wanted to build camera software but couldn't get investors interested. Today, Android is a large team at Google, delivering an operating system (including camera software) to over 3 billion devices worldwide. This is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262539029Author Panos LouridasFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

As a field, computer science occupies a unique scientific space, in that its subject matter can exist in both physical and abstract realms. An artifact such as software is both tangible and not, and must be classified as something in between, or...

From revolution on Twitter to romance on Tinder, we live in a world constructed of code - and coders are the ones who built it for us.In Coders, acclaimed tech writer Clive Thompson offers an illuminating reckoning with the most powerful tribe in the...

The only contemporary history of the birth of Silicon Valley, from the reporter who had a ringside seat to it all. Over the past five decades, the tech industry has grown into one of the most important sectors of the global economy. Silicon Valley...

Home Computers showcases the quirky and characterful beginnings of a commercial product that would come to unite the globe: the personal computer. As so much technology is forgotten once it is superseded, this is a celebration of machines, industrial...

Remember what a wild frontier the early days of home gaming were? Manufacturers releasing new consoles at a breakneck pace; developers creating games that kept us up all night, then going bankrupt the next day; and what self-respecting kid didn't beg...

The international journal of Proof-of-Concept or Get the Fuck Out is a celebrated collection of short essays on computer security, reverse engineering and retro-computing topics by many of the world's most famous hackers. Topics include how to dump the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101973639Author Brian DearFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of 2018 PROSE Award Winner, History of Science, Technology and Medicine 2018.Book InformationISBN 9780262535182Author Mar HicksFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint...

A gripping history that spans law, international affairs, and top-secret technology to unmask the tension between intellectual property rights and national security. At the beginning of the twentieth century, two British inventors, Arthur Pollen and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062515872Author Sir Tim Berners-LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 195g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262045308Author Harry LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 520Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

'Fifteen years ago, the internet felt like a special place my friends and I had built for each other; by 2020, we were standing on its ruins, wondering if we'd played a part in its destruction.'Journalist Marie Le Conte was born in 1991, the same year...