Computer Science History

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    • A Video Game, an Obsession, and America's Violent Past
    • By: Tore C. Olsson
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 06-08-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 72 ratings
    • Red Dead Redemption and Red Dead Redemption II, set in 1911 and 1899, are the most-played American history video games since The Oregon Trail. How do they fare as re-creations of history? In this engaging book, award-winning American history professor Tore Olsson takes up that question and more.

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    • The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
    • By: Paul E. Ceruzzi
    • Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon
    • Length: 3 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 30-10-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • The history of computing could be told as the story of hardware and software or the story of the Internet or the story of "smart" handheld devices....

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    • The Secret History of Computers and Spies
    • By: Gordon Corera
    • Narrated by: Gordon Corera
    • Length: 15 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 28-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 55 ratings
    • The computer was born to spy and now computers are transforming espionage. But who are the spies and who is being spied on in today's interconnected world? Find out....

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    • AI and the Problem of Control
    • By: Stuart Russell
    • Narrated by: Raphael Corkhill
    • Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 08-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 184 ratings
    • Creating superior intelligence would be the biggest event in human history....

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    • Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon
    • By: Kim Zetter
    • Narrated by: Joe Ochman
    • Length: 13 hrs
    • Release date: 11-11-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 406 ratings
    • The virus now known as Stuxnet was unlike any other piece of malware built before: Rather than simply hijacking targeted computers or stealing information from them, it proved that a piece of code could escape the digital realm and wreak actual, physical destruction....

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    • The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
    • By: Brian Merchant
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 15 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 26-09-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • The "rich and gripping" true story of the first time machines came for human jobs—and how the Luddite uprising explains the power, threat, and toll of big tech and AI today (Naomi Klein)....

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    • How Quantum Computers Will Unlock the Mysteries of Science – and Address Humanity’s Biggest Challenges
    • By: Michio Kaku
    • Narrated by: Feodor Chin
    • Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 02-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • The quantum computer, which harnesses the power and complexity of the atomic realm, may be useful in solving humanity's greatest challenges from climate change, to global starvation, to incurable diseases. Humanity's next great technological achievement already promises to be revolutionary....

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    • An Apollo 13 Astronaut's Journey
    • By: Fred Haise
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • In the gripping Never Panic Early, Fred Haise, Lunar Module Pilot for Apollo 13, offers a detailed firsthand account of when disaster struck three days into his mission to the moon....

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    • The Geniuses, Visionaries, Egomaniacs, and Scoundrels Who Built Our Electronic Age
    • By: Derek Cheung, Eric Brach
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 14 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 01-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • Conquering the Electron offers listeners a true and engaging history of the world of electronics, beginning with the discoveries of static electricity and magnetism and ending with the creation of the smartphone and the iPad....

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    • The Inside Story of America's Apollo Moon Landings
    • By: Alan Shepard, Deke Slayton, Jay Barbree, Neil Armstrong - introduction by
    • Narrated by: Christopher Grove
    • Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 07-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 80 ratings
    • Desperate to beat the Russians into space, NASA put together a crew of the nation's most daring test pilots: the seven men who were to lead America to the moon. The first into space was Alan Shepard; the last was Deke Slayton, whose irregular heartbeat kept him grounded until 1975....

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    • How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
    • By: Cathy O'Neil
    • Narrated by: Cathy O'Neil
    • Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 21-04-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 53 ratings
    • In this New York Times best seller, Cathy O'Neil, one of the first champions of algorithmic accountability, sounds an alarm on the mathematical models that pervade modern life—and threaten to rip apart our social fabric....

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    • How Eight Technologies Made Us Human, Transformed Society, and Brought Our World to the Brink
    • By: Richard L. Currier
    • Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
    • Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 23-11-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 75 ratings
    • Although we usually think of technology as something unique to modern times, our ancestors began to create the first technologies millions of years ago....

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    • Sputnik and the Hidden Rivals That Ignited the Space Age
    • By: Matthew Brzezinski
    • Narrated by: Charles Stransky
    • Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 05-09-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 54 ratings
    • On October 4, 1957, a time of Cold War paranoia, the Soviet Union secretly launched the Earth's first artificial moon....

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    • The Man Who Networked the World
    • By: Marc Raboy
    • Narrated by: Allan Robertson
    • Length: 31 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 04-04-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • As Marc Raboy shows us in this enthralling and comprehensive biography, Marconi was the first truly global figure in modern communications....

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    • An Optimistic Guide to What Comes Next
    • By: John Higgs
    • Narrated by: John Higgs
    • Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 16-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 208 ratings
    • At some point in the 1980s we gave up on the future. Before then, we imagined wonderful days to come, free from disease, work and want, in television series like Star Trek or events such as the 1939 Futurama World Fair....

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    • By: David McCullough
    • Narrated by: David McCullough
    • Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 05-05-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic story behind the story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly....

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    • A History of the UK in Data
    • By: Georgina Sturge
    • Narrated by: Amy Noble
    • Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 10-04-25
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Georgina Sturge, House of Commons Library statistician and author of the critically acclaimed Bad Data, explores the rich history of the times the UK has counted itself—from the revolutionary first census of 1801 to modern worries over technological surveillance.

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    • Connecting with Our Kids in a Wireless World
    • By: Kathy Koch
    • Narrated by: Ann Richardson
    • Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 12-10-16
    • Language: English
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    • If you feel like you're losing your teen to technology, you're not alone. Screen time is rapidly replacing family time, and for teens especially, it is hardwiring the way they connect....

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    • The Real Science of Screen Time (and How to Spend It Better)
    • By: Pete Etchells
    • Narrated by: Matt Addis
    • Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 21-03-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Most of us spend a significant part of the day in front of a screen. Our work and social lives play out through our computers, tablets and phones: on email, social media, video conference calls and gaming servers....

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    • Make Money and Scale Your Business, Building Profitable Online Ventures from Startup to Automated Revenue Streams
    • By: Halbert Marshall
    • Narrated by: Wahyu Wardhani
    • Length: 20 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 04-06-25
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • This comprehensive audiobook is your step-by-step guide to building profitable online ventures using ChatGPT - even if you've never written a line of code! Created by successful AI entrepreneurs, our guide breaks down complex concepts into actionable, beginner-friendly strategies.

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