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        Balkan Cyberia

        Balkan Cyberia

        Balkan Cyberia

        Cold War Computing, Bulgarian Modernization, and the Information Age behind the Iron Curtain

        by Victor Petrov

        ISBN: 9780262545129

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: June 13, 2023

        How Bulgaria transformed the computer industry behind the Iron Curtain—and the consequences of that transformation for a society that dreamt of a brighter future.
        Leibniz on Binary

        Leibniz on Binary

        Leibniz on Binary

        The Invention of Computer Arithmetic

        by Lloyd Strickland and Harry R. Lewis

        ISBN: 9780262544344

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: November 15, 2022

        The first collection of Leibniz's key writings on the binary system, newly translated, with many previously unpublished in any language.
        Makers of the Microchip

        Makers of the Microchip

        Makers of the Microchip

        A Documentary History of Fairchild Semiconductor

        by Christophe Lécuyer and David C. Brock

        Foreword by Jay Last

        ISBN: 9780262546263

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: October 25, 2022

        The first years of the company that developed the microchip and created the model for a successful Silicon Valley start-up.
        A New History of Modern Computing

        A New History of Modern Computing

        A New History of Modern Computing

        by Thomas Haigh and Paul E. Ceruzzi

        ISBN: 9780262542906

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: September 14, 2021

        How the computer became universal.
        A Biography of the Pixel

        A Biography of the Pixel

        A Biography of the Pixel

        by Alvy Ray Smith

        ISBN: 9780262542456

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: August 3, 2021

        The pixel as the organizing principle of all pictures, from cave paintings to Toy Story.
        Image Objects

        Image Objects

        Image Objects

        An Archaeology of Computer Graphics

        by Jacob Gaboury

        ISBN: 9780262045032

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: August 3, 2021

        How computer graphics transformed the computer from a calculating machine into an interactive medium, as seen through the histories of five technical objects.
        The Constitution of Algorithms

        The Constitution of Algorithms

        The Constitution of Algorithms

        Ground-Truthing, Programming, Formulating

        by Florian Jaton

        Foreword by Geoffrey C. Bowker

        ISBN: 9780262542142

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: April 27, 2021

        A laboratory study that investigates how algorithms come into existence.
        Your Computer Is on Fire

        Your Computer Is on Fire

        Your Computer Is on Fire

        Edited by Thomas S. Mullaney, Benjamin Peters, Mar Hicks and Kavita Philip

        Afterword by Kavita Philip and Benjamin Peters

        ISBN: 9780262539739

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: March 9, 2021

        Techno-utopianism is dead: Now is the time to pay attention to the inequality, marginalization, and biases woven into our technological systems.
        Ideas That Created the Future

        Ideas That Created the Future

        Ideas That Created the Future

        Classic Papers of Computer Science

        Edited by Harry R. Lewis

        ISBN: 9780262045308

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: February 2, 2021

        Classic papers by thinkers ranging from Aristotle and Leibniz to Norbert Wiener and Gordon Moore that chart the evolution of computer science.
        Algorithms

        Algorithms

        Algorithms

        by Panos Louridas

        ISBN: 9780262539029

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: August 18, 2020

        An accessible introduction to algorithms, explaining not just what they are but how they work, with examples from a wide range of application areas.
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