Schneier on Security by Bruce Schneier My rating: 4 of 5 stars Bruce Schneier is one the experts on computer security, and I have followed him with pleasure and learned a lot. He has a very practical approach to understanding … Continue reading
The Cuckoo’s Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage by Clifford Stoll My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is the kind of book that will appeal to computer nerds, and perhaps no one else, but since … Continue reading
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution by Steven Levy My rating: 5 of 5 stars This is a recently updated and reissued version of Levy’s classic book from 25 years ago. He traces the development of computing from the MIT … Continue reading
What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry by John Markoff My rating: 4 of 5 stars This was just a fun break from serious reading, but I quite enjoyed it. Before Steve Jobs, before … Continue reading
Open Sources by Chris DiBona My rating: 4 of 5 stars This book is for people who like to go back and revisit the early days of Open Source. When this was written, Google didn’t even appear, Yahoo was the … Continue reading
The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal by M. Mitchell Waldrop My rating: 5 of 5 stars Having just read Katie Hafner’s Where Wizard’s Stay Up Late I was ready to tackle this book, which … Continue reading
The Daemon, the Gnu, and the Penguin by Peter H. Salus My rating: 4 of 5 stars I give this a high rating because it does what it sets out to do very well.Peter Salus was involved in the history … Continue reading
