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Links to Free Computer, Mathematics, Technical Books all over the World
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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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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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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 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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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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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.
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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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RAND and the Information Evolution: A History in Essays
This book describes RAND1s contributions to the evolution of computer science, particularly during the first decades following World War II, etc..
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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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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.