Computer Science History

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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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    • How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
    • By: Walter Isaacson
    • Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
    • Length: 17 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 07-10-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 741 ratings
    • Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, The Innovators is Walter Isaacson’s revealing story of the people who created the computer and the Internet....

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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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    • The Technology That Transformed the World, from Benjamin Franklin to Elon Musk
    • By: Craig R. Roach
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 15 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 15-08-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Simply Electrifying brings to life the 250-year history of electricity through the stories of the men and women who used it to transform our world....

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    • By: Adam Fisher
    • Narrated by: Pete Larkin
    • Length: 18 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 10-07-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • Drawing on over 200 in-depth interviews, Valley of Genius takes listeners from the dawn of the personal computer and the Internet, through the heyday of the web, up to the very moment when our current technological reality was invented....

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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 28 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 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 18 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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    • Why Women Are Still Taken Less Seriously than Men, and What We Can Do About It
    • By: Mary Ann Sieghart
    • Narrated by: Mary Ann Sieghart
    • Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 01-07-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 228 ratings
    • The Authority Gap provides a startling perspective on the unseen bias at work in our everyday lives, to reveal the scale of the gap that still persists between men and women....

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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 out of 5 stars 6 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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    • Why the Evolution of the Brain Holds the Key to the Future of AI
    • By: Max Bennett
    • Narrated by: George Newbern
    • Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 24-10-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 42 ratings
    • A Brief History of Brains bridges the gap between AI and neuroscience by telling the evolutionary story of how the brain came to be....

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    • Materials and Human History from the Stone Age to the Age of Silicon
    • By: Stephen L. Sass
    • Narrated by: John Haag
    • Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 23-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • The story of human civilization can be read most deeply in the materials we have found or created, used or abused......

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    • Machine Learning and Human Values
    • By: Brian Christian
    • Narrated by: Brian Christian
    • Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 06-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 135 ratings
    • Today's "machine-learning" systems, trained by data, are so effective that we've invited them to see and hear for us - and to make decisions on our behalf. But alarm bells are ringing. Systems cull résumés until, years later, we discover that they have inherent gender biases.

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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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    • 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 77 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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    • 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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    • The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks
    • By: Scott Shapiro
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Length: 15 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 23-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • It's a signal paradox of our times that we live in an information society but do not know how it works....

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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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    • How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
    • By: Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway, Al Gore - foreword
    • Narrated by: Liza Seneca
    • Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 01-06-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • Merchants of Doubt tells, with “brutal clarity” (Huffington Post), the disquieting story of how a loose-knit group of high-level scientists and scientific advisers ran effective campaigns to mislead the public and deny well-established scientific knowledge over four decades....

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