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Links to Free Computer, Mathematics, Technical Books all over the World
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Silicon Destiny: Story of Application Specific Integrated Circuits
This book tells the story of Application-specific Integrated circuits (ASICs), a high-growth semiconductor industry. It is also the story of LSI Logic Corporation, the ASIC leader, and other organizations such as VLSI Technology, Altera, and Cadence Design Systems.
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Cellular: A History of the International Mobile-Phone Industry
Tracks the evolution of the international cellular industry from the late 1970s to the present. Examines its development. Covers the technical aspects of the cellphone, as well as its social and political impact.
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The Computers That Made Britain (Tim Danton)
The story of 19 of those computers - the tales of missed deadlines, technical faults, business interference, and the unheralded geniuses who brought to the UK everything from the Dragon 32 and ZX81, to the Amstrad CPC 464 and Commodore Amiga.
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Stanford and the Computer Music Revolution (Andrew J. Nelson)
This book chronicles the history of Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), tracing its origins in Stanford's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory through its present-day influence on Silicon Valley and digital music groups worldwide.
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From Russia with Code: Programming Migrations in Post-Soviet
While Russian computer scientists are notorious for their interference in the 2016 US presidential election, they are ubiquitous on Wall Street and coveted by international IT firms and perceive themselves as the past glory of Soviet scientific prowess.
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Retrograde - The Ultimate Guide to Pre-millennial PC Hardware
Travel back to the Neolithic days of the 286, CGA graphics and the first sound cards with our free guide to vintage PC hardware. From the very first PC to the Nvidia GeForce, it covers loads of the hardware and software from the 1980s and 1990s.
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JavaScript: The First 20 Years (Allen Wirfs-Brock, et al)
This book tells the story of the creation, design, evolution, and standardization of the JavaScript language over the period of 1995–2015. But the story is not only about the technical details of the language.
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The Daemon, the Gnu, and the Penguin (Peter H. Salus)
In addition to covering a history of free and open source, This book explores how free and open software is changing the world. The author interviewed well over a hundred key figures to document the history and background of free and open source software.
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Let Over Lambda - 50 Years of Lisp (Doug Hoyte)
This book is one of the most hardcore computer programming books out there. Starting with the fundamentals, it describes the most advanced features of the most advanced language: Common Lisp.
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Java: The Legend - Past, Present, and Future (Ben Evans)
This book takes us on a journey through time: The road from Java's first public alpha of 1.0 to today has been long—and full of technical advances, innovative solutions, and interesting complications.
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The Past, Present, and Future of JavaScript (Axel Rauschmayer)
It explains how the combination of several technologies and opportunities in the past 15 years turned JavaScript's fortunes. Its phenomenal rise from a simple client-side scripting tool to a versatile and flexible programming language exceeded everyone's expectations.
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Lions' Commentary on Unix 6th Edition (John Lions)
This legendary underground classic, reproduced without modification, is really two works in one: the complete source code to an early version (Edition 6) of the UNIX operating system, a treasure in itself!
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Quantum Computing Since Democritus (Scott Aaronson)
This book takes readers on a tour through some of the deepest ideas of maths, computer science and physics. Full of insights, arguments and philosophical perspectives, the book covers an amazing array of topics.
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A Technical History of Apple's Operating Systems (Amit Singh)
This document discusses operating systems that Apple has created in the past, and many that it tried to create. Through this discussion, we will come across several technologies the confluence of which eventually led to Mac OS X.
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Building the Second Mind 1956: The Origins of Artificial Intelligence
This book tells the history of the origins of Artificial Intelligence (AI). As the field that seeks to do things that would be considered intelligent if a human being did them, AI is a constant of human thought.
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Building the Second Mind, 1961-1980: Commercial Expert Systems
This book tells the story of the development, during the 1960s and 1970s, of AI, the field that sought to get computers to do things that would be considered intelligent if a person did them. Watching advances of the 1960s and 1970s by the efforts of AI founders.
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The Quest for Artificial Intelligence: Ideas and Achievements
This book traces the history of the subject, from the early dreams of eighteenth-century (and earlier) pioneers to the more successful work of today's AI engineers - the definitive history of a field that has captivated the imaginations of scientists, philosophers, etc.
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A History of the Personal Computer: the People and the Technology
This book is an exciting history of the personal computer revolution - the only book that provides such comprehensive coverage. It not only describes the hardware and software, but also the companies and people who made it happen.
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Designing Computers and Digital Systems (C. Gordon Bell, et al)
This is a classic book from the days that computers were designed using pdp 16 registers. It is authored by some very famous figures of computer history - Gordon Bell, John Grason, and Allen Newell.
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RAND and the Information Evolution: A History in Essays
This book describes RAND's contributions to the evolution of computer science, includes photographs and vignettes that reveal the collegial, creative, and often playful spirit in which the groundbreaking research was conducted at RAND.
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O'Reilly® Free as in Freedom: Crusade for Free Software
This book interweaves biographical snapshots of GNU project founder Richard Stallman with the political, social and economic history of the free software movement.
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Logic and Automata: History and Perspectives (Jorg Flum, et al)
This book gives a consolidated overview of the research results achieved in the theory of automata and logic, covers many different facets of logic and automata theory, emphasizing the connections to other disciplines such as games, algorithms, etc.
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Dictionary of Programming Languages (Neal Ziring)
This is an online compendium of computer coding methods assembled to provide information and aid your appreciation for computer science history. The dictionary currently has over 120 entries.
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Marie Curie and the Science of Radioactivity (Naomi Pasachoff)
Marie Curie discovered radium and went on to lead the scientific community in studying the theory behind and the uses of radioactivity. She left a vast legacy to future scientists through her research, her teaching, and her contributions to the welfare of humankind.
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