Authors: Kevin Warwick.
Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publication Date: 2004-07-19

Authors: Cheryl Tsang.
Hardcover, 254 pages
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Publication Date: 1999-10-04
Edition: 1

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    Microsoft Corporation has been the focus of sustained success and intense public interest for more than a decade. Who were the architects of the Empire that changed the world forever, and how did they do it? This book introduces 12 of the legendary wunderkinds that created a legacy and have since "retired" from Microsoft to pursue a wide range of other attainments - aided, of course, by the experience and appreciating stock options they gained during their time with the company. These portraits of Bill Gates's proteges offers a unique opportunity to get "inside the heads" of some of the most creative people ever to have worked in Silicon Valley. The book includes interviews with Richard Brodie (author of Word), Scott Oki (founder of Microsoft International) and Neil Evans (creator of the Microsoft Network)....

    If a company's soul is defined by its employees, Cheryl Tsang's Microsoft First Generation offers the definitive look at the way one of the world's top corporations has really been shaped. In straightforward but perceptive profiles, Tsang introduces a dozen key individuals hired by Bill Gates and Paul Allen before 1990--when the primary focus was creation and development, rather than growth and maintenance. They are mathematician-programmer Bob O'Rear (hired two years before Microsoft relocated from Albuquerque to Seattle), technical writer Russell Borland, programmer Richard Brodie, senior vice president Scott Oki, chief information officer Neil Evans, CPA Dave Neir, Ida Cole (the first female VP), CD-ROM author Min Yee, technical manager Ron Harding, publishing-systems manager Russell Steele, Asian-business-development manager Paul Sribhibhadh, and senior diversity administrator Trish Millines Dziko. "The people who comprised Microsoft's first generation were exactly right for their time. They were the pioneers," Tsang writes. "The founders of Microsoft were shrewd to have hired them, for the company's monumental and continuing success would not have been possible without [their] exceptional work and passion." --Howard Rothman...

Authors: Paul Chambers.
Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Steerforth
Publication Date: 2009-02-03


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    A magical blend of true story and popular science, "Jumbo" is the wonderful, colourful biography of the greatest elephant ever known. Born in Africa in 1863, Jumbo was orphaned by ivory-hunters, 'rescued' and taken to France. Mistaken for a runt, he was sold to London Zoo, where he became the favourite of the British populace, from Queen Victoria to the young Winston Churchill - until, talent-spotted by the American circus-owner P.T. Barnum, and despite public outcry and Royal protestations, he was taken across the Atlantic to New York. There, having once more conquered public hearts and now a beast of giant proportions, he 'befriended' a smaller elephant, Tom Thumb - in saving whose life he was to meet a tragic end.This book not only unravels the story, but also looks at Jumbo from a zoologist's point of view. Why was he thought to be a runt? What helped or hindered him in adapting to unfamiliar surroundings from one hemisphere to the other? How was he likely to have reacted to the overwhelming public attention - and to isolation from his natural habitat? The author draws illuminatingly on modern knowledge of elephant behaviour and biology to shed light on the mysteries surrounding Jumbo's life....

Authors:
Paperback, 462 pages
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Publication Date: 1997-08-18


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Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: The MIT Press
Publication Date: 1999-06-04


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    with the cooperation of Robert V. D. Campbell


This collection of technical essays and reminiscences is a companion volume to I. Bernard Cohen's biography, Howard Aiken: Portrait of a Computer Pioneer. After an overview by Cohen, Part I presents the first complete publication of Aiken's 1937 proposal for an automatic calculating machine, which was later realized as the Mark I, as well as recollections of Aiken's first two machines by the chief engineer in charge of construction of Mark II, Robert Campbell, and the principal programmer of Mark I, Richard Bloch. Henry Tropp describes Aiken's hostility to the exclusive use of binary numbers in computational systems and his alternative approach.

Part II contains essays on Aiken's administrative and teaching styles by former students Frederick Brooks and Peter Calingaert and an essay by Gregory Welch on the difficulties Aiken faced in establishing a computer science program at Harvard. Part III contains recollections by people who worked or studied with Aiken, including Richard Bloch, Grace Hopper, Anthony Oettinger, and Maurice Wilkes. Henry Tropp provides excerpts from an interview conducted just before Aiken's death. Part IV gathers the most significant of Aiken's own writings. The appendixes give the specs of Aiken's machines and list his doctoral students and the topics of their dissertations....

Authors: David Chanoff. Ejovi Nuwere.
Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Publication Date: 2003-12-01


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Like other kids in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, Ejovi Nuwere grew up among thugs and drug dealers. When he was eleven, he helped form a gang; at twelve, he attempted suicide. In his large, extended family, one uncle was a career criminal, one a graduate student with his own computer. By the time Ejovi was fourteen, he was spending as much time on the computer as his uncle was. Within a year he was well on his way to a hacking career that would lead him to one of the most audacious and potentially dangerous computer break-ins of all time, secret until now.

Before he finished high school he had created a hidden life in the hacker underground and an increasingly prominent career as a computer security consultant. At the age of twenty-two, he was a top security specialist for one of the world's largest financial houses.

Hacker Cracker is at once the most candid revelation to date of the dark secrets of cyberspace and the simple, unaffected story of an inner-city child's triumph over shattering odds to achieve unparalleled success.

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Authors: John T. Barber.
Hardcover, 216 pages
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Publication Date: 2006-09-30


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    Most discussions of the digital divide focus on the gap between African Americans and others when it comes to using, and benefiting from, the technological and business opportunities of the information age. Although many African Americans are locked out of the information revolution, others are an integral part of its development and progress. Barber profiles 26 of them here, engagingly and informatively blending biography with insight and analysis. Documenting history as it is being made, this book features achievers in all fields of relevant endeavor, including scientists, business leaders, power brokers, and community leaders. Among them are Robert Johnson, CEO of Black Entertainment Television; Richard Parsons, CEO of AOL Time-Warner; congressmen and other policymakers in Washington, D.C.; and men and women who are working to bridge the digital divide in satellite radio, web-based portals, and on the ground with IT workshops. This book is not just about business success or technological progress. The African American "digerati" are solving one of the great social challenges of the 21st century: creating a black community that is prosperous in a society that has changed from being a land-based industrial society to a cyberspace-based information society....

Authors: Elisabeth de Graaff.
Paperback, 66 pages
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.
Publication Date: 2007-12-19
Edition: 0

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    Elisabeth “Bep” de Graaff was just entering her teen years in Holland when World War II invaded her life. For the next five years, her life was turned upside down as she and her family struggled through the Nazi occupation. From watching bombing raids to hiding Jews to enduring the terrible “Hunger Winter” of 1944–45, Bep experienced more before she was 18 than most of us experience in a lifetime.

This, in her own words, is Bep’s story. She shares her memories of that time in her life, and how her faith in God has carried her through the trauma of war and her experiences afterward.

The Girl From Rotterdam is a touching story of growing up in wartime, and how spiritual faith can help one through the harshest of hardships.

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Authors: Dorothy Gilman.
Audio Cassette, 4 pages
Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
Publication Date: 1995
Edition: Unabridged 4 Audio Cassettes

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    "Mrs. Pollifax Pursued By Dorothy Gilman, Narrated By Barbara Rosenblat." "Meet Mrs. Emily Pollifax, a sweet, gray-haired grandmother---and a daring CIA agent. Over the years, her far-flung adventures have won the lasting affection of mystery readers everywhere. In Mrs. Pollifax Pursued, Mrs. Pollifax is at her delightful best in a case that whisks her from her Connecticut neighobrhood to an African royal palace. A wealthy international financier has been kidnapped by two men in a dirty white van---the same van that is now parked on Mrs. P.'s maple-lined street. A terrified young woman hiding in Mrs. P.'s junk closet reveals that the men in the van have been chasing her for days, though she doesn't know why. Mrs. P. puts in a call for help to her CIS crony, Mr. Carstairs, who sends the woman and Mrs. P. into safe hiding at a carnival secretly backed by the CIA. But before they know it they're on the run again---this time to Ubangiba, where Mrs. P. and Mr. Carstairs must finally end a dangerous international money-making scheme..." [from the back of case]...

Authors: George Anders.
Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Portfolio Trade
Publication Date: 2004-01-27


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    In this bestselling work of investigative journalism, Pulitzer Prize winner George Anders presents a behind-the-scenes account of a struggle that rocked Wall Street and stunned the computer industry.

When Carly Fiorina took command of Hewlett-Packard in 1999, she was venturing further than any woman previously had into traditional men’s territory. Leading the opposition against her daring plan to rescue the $40 billion-dollar company from decline—which included the $20 billion acquisition of archrival Compaq—was Walter Hewlett, son of HP’s late co-founder and defender of “The HP Way.” Not since Wall Street operatives battled over the fate of RJR Nabisco had a takeover drama so captivated the media and the public.

Drawing on unparalleled access to HP insiders and written with a novelist’s flair, Perfect Enough is a spellbinding chronicle of hope, ambition, betrayal, and family pride....