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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Before Owen Michaels disappears, he manages to smuggle a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to whom the note refers--Owen's sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey. Bailey, who lost her mother tragically as a child. Bailey, who wants absolutely nothing to do with her new stepmother. As Hannah's increasingly desperate calls to Owen go unanswered, as the FBI arrests Owen's boss, as...
2) 1st case
Author
Language
English
Description
"Recruited into the FBI when her unorthodox programming skills get her kicked out of MIT, a computer genius tracks a killer who has been targeting young women through a sophisticated messaging app."--
Angela Hoot's unorthodox programming skills get her kicked out of MIT's graduate school-- and into the FBI's cyber-forensics unit as an intern. There's a messaging app with sophisticated tracking capabilities surfaces. Its beta users, all young women,...
3) Wired
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Allison Trent doesn't look like a hacker. In fact, when she's not in college working on her degree, she models on the side. But behind her gorgeous face is a brilliant mind for computers and her real love is writing--and hacking--code. Her dream is to write a new security program that could revolutionize the tech industry. Hotshot FBI agent Liam Scott has a problem: a leak deep within his own department. He needs the skills of a top-notch hacker...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Christmas in Caerphilly is wonderful! Unless you're a Canadian whose inconsiderate boss is forcing you to spend the holiday there, far from family and friends, with only a slim chance of a white Christmas. Meg already has her hands full, trying to make the season festive for the dozen programmers who are staying with her and Michael while working on a rush project with her brother's software company. At least it's an interesting project, since the...
5) Storm cycle
Author
Language
English
Description
Rachel Kirby, a computer genius whose beloved twin sister is dying from a chronc illness, receives a mysterious email from archeologist John Tanek who sits trapped inside a collapsed Egyptian tomb with a functioning laptop thousands of miles away. It turns out the collapse was no accident. John has discovered something very valuable in that tomb, something that humankind has been searching for throughout history, something that Rachel could use as...
Author
Lexile measure
1040L
Language
English
Description
"The riveting true story of the women who launched America into space. During World War II, when the newly minted Jet Propulsion Laboratory needed quick-thinking mathematicians to calculate jet velocities and plot missile trajectories, they recruited an elite group of young women--known as human computers--who, with only pencil, paper, and mathematical prowess, transformed rocket design and helped bring about America's first ballistic missiles. But...
9) Robot
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First American edition.
Lexile measure
IG 1160L
Physical Desc
160 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Explores the latest technology in robotics and describes the many different types of robots and how they are built and used in today's world.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Dana Diaz is an aspiring stand-up comedian--a woman in a man's world. When she meets a tough computer programmer named Amanda Dorn, the two bond over their struggles in boys' club professions. Dana confides that she's recently been harassed and assaulted while in L.A., and Amanda comes up with a plan: they should go after each other's assailants, Strangers on a Train-style. But Dana finds that revenge, however sweet, draws her into a more complicated...
13) The emoji games
Author
Publisher
[Peter Gorgas]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
439 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Looking for his next big hire, corporate recruiter Hank Post flies to Austria in pursuit of an elusive programmer know by the code name Empork -- German for Upstart. To get his attention, Post comes up with the idea of communicating with emojis. Empork answers back and the Emoji Games are on! Things are not what they seem, however, as the Games lead to a shocking revelation that irrecocably bonds the two in an experiment on artificial intelligence"...
14) Burn factor
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
353 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Vince Flynn
Bright, young, and ambitious, Quinn Barry desperately wants to be an FBI agent, even as she programs databases in the basement of the J. Edgar Hoover Building. But Quinn's career -- and her life -- are about to change wildly. Testing a new program, Quinn's computer savvy turns up a mysterious DNA link among five gruesome murders. A link that the old FBI system had been carefully programmed...
15) Screwdrivered
Author
Series
Cocktail volume 3
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Gallery Books trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
245 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"By day, Viv Franklin is a tough-as-nails software engineer who crunches binary code as if it's candy. By night, Vivian indulges in bodice-ripping, corset-busting sex. Too bad it's all in her imagination. Vivian has a deep, dark secret. She's a romance novel junkie, and her fantasies are filled with strapping firefighters and bare-chested cowboys. She wants flowing gowns, a house perched on a cliff, and a hero who will stir her loins. So when she...
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (229 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The sixth and final season of Mike Judge and Alex Berg's hilarious, Emmy-nominated HBO comedy finds Pied Piper more successful than ever. After years of false starts, the company has become a legitimate presence in Silicon Valley, rising above the competition with its pledge not to mine user data. But the Pied Piper guys soon come to learn that staying true to their values comes at a price in this cutthroat business.
Author
Publisher
Cherry Lake Pub
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (48 pages) : color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
Discover how Larry Page and Sergey Brin started out as two ordinary computer science graduate students at Stanford University, but together, created Google, the world's most powerful information search engine on the Internet. Readers will learn about the power of innovation, creativity and tech smarts.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
810L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 32 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"A fascinating look at Ada Lovelace, the pioneering computer programmer and the daughter of the poet Lord Byron" -- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Lerner Publications Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Lexile measure
780L
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Have you ever watched a home video that went viral on the Internet? Then you've probably heard of the company YouTube. YouTube was created by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim in 2005. When these three friends wanted to share a video from a party, they realized they were on to something. They thought other people would want an easy way to share videos online too. The website they built quickly became the most popular online video community...
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 231 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Pied Piper is closer to real fame and fortune as they face a growing company, investor pressure, and greater competition. They will probably screw it up.