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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.
        Cellular

        Cellular

        Cellular

        An Economic and Business History of the International Mobile-Phone Industry

        by Daniel D. Garcia-Swartz and Martin Campbell-Kelly

        ISBN: 9780262543927

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: October 18, 2022

        Tracks the evolution of the international cellular industry from the late 1970s to the present.
        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.
        Productivity Machines

        Productivity Machines

        Productivity Machines

        German Appropriations of American Technology from Mass Production to Computer Automation

        by Corinna Schlombs

        ISBN: 9780262537391

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: October 1, 2019

        How productivity culture and technology became emblematic of the American economic system in pre- and postwar Germany.
        Programmed Inequality

        Programmed Inequality

        Programmed Inequality

        How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing

        by Mar Hicks

        ISBN: 9780262535182

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: February 23, 2018

        This “sobering tale of the real consequences of gender bias” explores how Britain lost its early dominance in computing by systematically discriminating against its most qualified workers: women. (Harvard Magazine)
        IBM

        IBM

        IBM

        The Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon

        by James W. Cortada

        ISBN: 9780262039444

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: March 5, 2019

        A history of one of the most influential American companies of the last century.
        Recoding Gender

        Recoding Gender

        Recoding Gender

        Women's Changing Participation in Computing

        by Janet Abbate

        ISBN: 9780262534536

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: September 8, 2017

        The untold history of women and computing: how pioneering women succeeded in a field shaped by gender biases.
        ENIAC in Action

        ENIAC in Action

        ENIAC in Action

        Making and Remaking the Modern Computer

        by Thomas Haigh, Mark Priestley and Crispin Rope

        ISBN: 9780262535175

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: January 26, 2018

        The history of the first programmable electronic computer, from its conception, construction, and use to its afterlife as a part of computing folklore.
        Making IT Work

        Making IT Work

        Making IT Work

        A History of the Computer Services Industry

        by Jeffrey R. Yost

        ISBN: 9780262036726

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: October 6, 2017

        The evolution of the multi-billion-dollar computer services industry, from consulting and programming to data analytics and cloud computing, with case studies of important companies.
        For Fun and Profit

        For Fun and Profit

        For Fun and Profit

        A History of the Free and Open Source Software Revolution

        by Christopher Tozzi

        Foreword by Jonathan L. Zittrain

        ISBN: 9780262036474

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: August 11, 2017

        The free and open source software movement, from its origins in hacker culture, through the development of GNU and Linux, to its commercial use today.
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