Computer Engineering

One of New York Magazine's best books on Silicon Valley! The true, behind-the-scenes history of the people who built Silicon Valley and shaped Big Tech in America Long before Margaret O'Mara became one of our most consequential historians of the American-led digital revolution, she worked in the...

From FSGO x Logic: a revealing examination of digital advertising and the internet's precarious foundation In Subprime Attention Crisis, Tim Hwang investigates the way big tech financializes attention. In the process, he shows us how digital advertising--the beating heart of the internet--is at...

Developed by experienced professors and professionally narrated for easy listening, this crash course is a valuable tool when preparing for your Scrum Master Certification Exam.

The gripping inside story of YouTube, the company that upended media, culture, industry, and democracy—by a leading tech journalist Across the world, people watch more than a billion hours of video on YouTube every day. Every minute, more than five hundred additional hours of footage are...

The next chapter of human history should not be written by algorithms, it should be written by us. It is only by fully understanding how data has shaped our past that we can decide what role it plays in our future. We live in an era when trading our information for access can feel harmless or...

David K. Stumpf demystifies the intercontinental ballistic missile program that was conceived at the end of the Eisenhower administration as a key component of the US nuclear strategy of massive retaliation. Although its nuclear warhead may have lacked power relative to that of the Titan II, the Minuteman more than made up for this in terms of numbers and readiness to launch - making it the ultimate ICBM.

NEW YORK TIMES and WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2015 One of the world’s leading authorities on global security, Marc Goodman takes readers deep into the digital underground to expose the alarming ways criminals, corporations, and even countries...

Jaron Lanier, a Silicon Valley visionary since the 1980s, was among the first to predict the revolutionary changes the World Wide Web would bring to commerce and culture. Now, in his first book, written more than two decades after the web was created, Lanier offers this provocative and...

Operations Anti-Patterns, DevOps Solutions shows how to implement DevOps techniques in the kind of imperfect environments most developers work in. Part technology tutorial, part reference manual, and part psychology handbook, this practical guide shows you realistic ways to bring DevOps to your team when you don't have the flexibility to make sweeping changes in organizational structure.

The high-energy tale of how two socially awkward Ivy Leaguers, trying to increase their chances with the opposite sex, ended up creating Facebook. Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg were Harvard undergraduates and best friends–outsiders at a school filled with polished prep-school grads and...

Humans have been farming for thousands of years, and yet agriculture has undergone more fundamental changes in the past 80 years than in the previous several centuries. In 1900, 30 million American farmers tilled the soil or tended livestock; today there are fewer than 4.5 million farmers who feed a population four times larger than it was at the beginning of the century.

Start thinking about your development pipeline as a mission-critical application. Pipeline as Code is a practical guide to automating your development pipeline in a cloud-native, service-driven world. You’ll use the latest infrastructure-as-code tools like Packer and Terraform to develop reliable CI/CD pipelines for numerous cloud-native applications. Treat your CI/CD pipeline like the real application it is. With the Pipeline as Code approach, you create a collection of scripts that replace the tedious web UI wrapped around most CI/CD systems.

A Soul of the New Machine for our time, a gripping account of invention, commerce, and duplicity in the age of technology A worldwide race is on to perfect the next engine of economic growth, the advanced lithium-ion battery. It will power the electric car, relieve global warming, and catapult...

“It is possible to invent a single machine which can be used to compute any computable sequence,” twenty-four-year-old Alan Turing announced in 1936. In Turing’s Cathedral, George Dyson focuses on a small group of men and women, led by John von Neumann at the Institute for Advanced Study...

This audiobook is a highlight reel of content revolving around the software developer's life.

ChatGPT Side Hustles that Actually Pay: A Practical, No-Hype Guide to AI Side Hustles. AI is the biggest income shift since the internet, and most people are about to miss it. This audiobook shows you how to turn ChatGPT into a real money-making tool, even if you are starting with zero skills, zero audience, and zero technical background. No fluff. No fake gurus. No empty promises. Just proven AI side hustles that are paying right now, and clear guidance on how to get started.

From one of the world’s leading data scientists, a landmark tour ofthe new science of idea flow, offering revolutionary insights into the mysteries of collective intelligence and social influence If the Big Data revolution has a presiding genius, it is MIT’s Alex “Sandy” Pentland. Over...

日本人がSFを語る上で絶対に外してはいけない作家、海野十三。数多くのSF作品を執筆し、他にもシャーロック・ホームズをもじった「帆村荘六」シリーズや、丘丘十郎の名で科学小説を執筆したり、蜆貝介、栗戸利休の名で科学解説記事を、京人生の名で漫画、海十斎の号で俳句や川柳を発表している。また、日本の漫画界にも多くの影響を与えている。「科学が臍を曲げた話」は、丘丘十郎の名で発表された短編科学エッセイ。錬金術、電気メス、避雷針…科学史において画期的な発明がなされる時の裏側、当たり前だと思っていた科学に人間がまんまと裏切られる瞬間。一筋縄ではいかない科学の本質を、分かりやすく面白く解説。海野十三ならではの洒落た文体が織り成す、不思議な科学の世界へようこそ。

Don't miss out on the AI revolution—join The ChatGPT Goldrush now! Whether you're a seasoned online entrepreneur, a budding freelancer, or simply curious about AI's potential, this book is the key to unlocking a world of endless possibilities.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER The story of a small AI company that gave facial recognition to law enforcement, billionaires, and businesses, threatening to end privacy as we know it “The dystopian future portrayed in some science-fiction movies is already upon us. Kashmir Hill’s fascinating book...