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  • Abstractions and Embodiments

    New Histories of Computing and Society

    Edited by Janet Abbate, Stephanie Dick ...
    Series series Studies in Computing and Culture
    Cutting-edge historians explore ideas, communities, and technologies around modern computing to explore how computers mediate social relations.Computers have been framed both as a mirror for the human mind and as an irreducible other that humanness is defined against, depending on different historical definitions of "humanness." They can serve both liberation and control because some people's ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • Recoding Gender

    Women's Changing Participation in Computing

    by Janet Abbate ...
    Series series History of Computing
    The untold history of women and computing: how pioneering women succeeded in a field shaped by gender biases.Today, women earn a relatively low percentage of computer science degrees and hold proportionately few technical computing jobs. Meanwhile, the stereotype of the male “computer geek” seems to be everywhere in popular culture. Few people know that women were a significant presence in the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Abstractions and Embodiments

    New Histories of Computing and Society

    Edited by Janet Abbate, Stephanie Dick ...
    Series series Studies in Computing and Culture
    Cutting-edge historians explore ideas, communities, and technologies around modern computing to explore how computers mediate social relations.Computers have been framed both as a mirror for the human mind and as an irreducible other that humanness is defined against, depending on different historical definitions of "humanness." They can serve both liberation and control because some people's ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • Inventing the Internet

    by Janet Abbate ...
    Series series Inside Technology
    Janet Abbate recounts the key players and technologies that allowed the Internet to develop; but her main focus is always on the social and cultural factors that influenced the Internet's design and use.Since the late 1960s the Internet has grown from a single experimental network serving a dozen sites in the United States to a network of networks linking millions of computers worldwide. In ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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  • A History of Modern Computing, second edition

    by Paul E. Ceruzzi ...
    Series series History of Computing
    From the first digital computer to the dot-com crash—a story of individuals, institutions, and the forces that led to a series of dramatic transformations.This engaging history covers modern computing from the development of the first electronic digital computer through the dot-com crash. The author concentrates on five key moments of transition: the transformation of the computer in the late ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Where Wizards Stay Up Late

    The Origins Of The Internet

    by Matthew Lyon, Katie Hafner ...
    Twenty five years ago, it didn't exist. Today, twenty million people worldwide are surfing the Net. Where Wizards Stay Up Late is the exciting story of the pioneers responsible for creating the most talked about, most influential, and most far-reaching communications breakthrough since the invention of the telephone.In the 1960's, when computers where regarded as mere giant calculators, J.C.R. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Net Smart

    How to Thrive Online

    by Howard Rheingold ...
    A media guru shows us how to use social media intelligently, humanely, and, above all, mindfully.Like it or not, knowing how to make use of online tools without being overloaded with too much information is an essential ingredient to personal success in the twenty-first century. But how can we use digital media so that they make us empowered participants rather than passive receivers, grounded, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Networked

    The New Social Operating System

    by Lee Rainie, Barry Wellman ...
    How social networks, the personalized Internet, and always-on mobile connectivity are transforming—and expanding—social life.Daily life is connected life, its rhythms driven by endless email pings and responses, the chimes and beeps of continually arriving text messages, tweets and retweets, Facebook updates, pictures and videos to post and discuss. Our perpetual connectedness gives us endless ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Cloud Computing

    Principles and Paradigms

    Edited by Rajkumar Buyya, James Broberg, Andrzej M. Goscinski ...
    Series Book 87 - Wiley Series on Parallel and Distributed Computing
    The primary purpose of this book is to capture the state-of-the-art in Cloud Computing technologies and applications. The book will also aim to identify potential research directions and technologies that will facilitate creation a global market-place of cloud computing services supporting scientific, industrial, business, and consumer applications. We expect the book to serve as a reference for ... Read more

    $134.00 USD

  • From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg

    What You Really Need to Know About the Internet

    by John Naughton ...
    We've gone from regarding the Net as something exotic to something that we take for granted, like mains electricity or running water. Yet most people have no idea how the network functions, nor any conception of its architecture; and few can explain why it has been - and continues to be - so uniquely disruptive in social, economic and cultural contexts. John Naughton has been thinking, arguing, ... Read more

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  • Security in Computing

    by Charles Pfleeger, Shari Pfleeger, Jonathan Margulies ...
    The New State of the Art in Information Security: Now Covers Cloud Computing, the Internet of Things, and CyberwarfareStudents and IT and security professionals have long relied on Security in Computing as the definitive guide to computer security attacks and countermeasures. Now, the authors have thoroughly updated this classic to reflect today’s newest technologies, attacks, standards, and ... Read more

    $103.49 USD

  • The Intention Economy

    When Customers Take Charge

    by Doc Searls ...
    Caveat venditor-let the seller bewareWhile marketers look for more ways to get personal with customers, including new tricks with big data,” customers are about to get personal in their own ways, with their own tools. Soon consumers will be able to: Control the flow and use of personal data Build their own loyalty programs Dictate their own terms of service Tell whole markets what they want, how ... Read more

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