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Publisher
HBO Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (228 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the high-tech gold rush of modern Silicon Valley, the people most qualified to succeed are the least capable of handling success. A comedy partially inspired by Mike Judge's own experiences as a Silicon Valley engineer in the late 1980s.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
436 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Facebook's algorithms shaping the news. Self-driving cars roaming the streets. Revolution on Twitter and romance on Tinder. We live in a world constructed of code--and coders are the ones who built it for us. From acclaimed tech writer Clive Thompson comes a brilliant anthropological reckoning with the most powerful tribe in the world today, computer programmers, in a book that interrogates who they are, how they think, what qualifies as greatness...
24) Proving ground: the untold story of the six women who programmed the world's first modern computer
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing/Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xix, 296 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"After the end of World War II, top-secret research continued across the United States as engineers and programmers rushed to complete their confidential assignments. Among them were six pioneering women, tasked with figuring out how to program the world's first general-purpose, programmable, all-electronic computer - a machine built to calculate a single ballistic trajectory in twenty seconds rather than forty hours by human hand - even though there...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Lexile measure
810L
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents information about the boy who created Tumblr, including dropping out of school at the age of fifteen, working for Urbanbaby.com at sixteen, and living in Tokyo by himself at seventeen.
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
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
415 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In this thriller from Ezekiel Boone, author of The Hatching series, a family moves into a home equipped with the world's most intelligent, most cutting-edge, and most intuitive computer ever--with terrifying and catastrophic results.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Ray Santiago's friends from work know him as a brilliant-but-easygoing systems engineer who spends a lot of time on his favorite online role-playing game. But the game is over for Ray: his colleagues from work, Maude, Tim, and Turing, have just found out about Ray's murder in a dark alley. He was shot, and his laptop stolen. It could be just another D.C. street crime. But if Turing's password was in that computer-and it's fallen into the wrong hands-she...
Author
Series
Publisher
Checkerboard Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
850L
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illlustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Who wants to be a computer programmer? In this title, prospective computer programmers will meet pioneers in the computer programming field, examine the history of computers, programming, and languages; and learn about the development of the World Wide Web, the rise of the home computer, and the future of programming" --
30) Superman III
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sound, color, stereo ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Superman III reveals the answer and adds a third all-star chapter to the amazing adventures of Superman. Gus Gorman is a genial half-wit who just happens to be a natural-born genius at computer programming. In his hands, a computer keyboard turns into a deadly weapon and soon, Superman faces the microelectronic menace of his career.
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.
Publisher
HBO Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (300 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the high-tech gold rush of modern Silicon Valley, the people most qualified to succeed are the least capable of handling success. A comedy partially inspired by Mike Judge's own experiences as a Silicon Valley engineer in the late 1980s.
33) Computer kids
Author
Pub. Date
1984
Physical Desc
127 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
34) Access denied
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
251 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When Turing Hopper, Artificial Intelligence Personality and sleuth, uncovers information tied to criminal Nestor Garcia's long-dormant credit cards, she sends her human assistants to investigate, but when one of them becomes embroiled in murder, the A.I. detective must find a way to bring the guilty party to light.
35) Space heroes
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
23 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Profiles four women who have been integral to NASA's space program, helping to develop the Hubble Space Telescope, create computer code to send spacecraft to the moon, and work onboard the space shuttle.
Author
Series
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xiii, 250 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Programming jobs are on the rise, and the field is predicted to keep growing, fast. Landing one of these lucrative and rewarding jobs requires more than just being a good programmer. Programming Interviews For Dummies explains the skills and knowledge you need to ace the programming interview. Interviews for software development jobs and other programming positions are unique. Not only must candidates demonstrate technical savvy, they must also show...
37) Daemon: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
432 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
After the premature death of Matthew Sobol, a legendary computer game designer, a daemon that he designed to dismantle society and bring about a new world order is activiated and it's up to an unlikely alliance to decipher Sobol's intricate plans and wrest the world from the grasp of his computer program.
39) Corsair
Author
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates, LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
336 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the early 2020s, two young, genius computer hackers meet at MIT. One, Elizabeth Santiago, dreams of technology and space travel; the other, David Schwartz, is just looking to make a quick buck. Nearly ten years later, David is setting himself up to become a billionaire by working in the shadows for international thieves, while Elizabeth works in intelligence, preventing international space piracy. With robotic mining in space becoming a lucrative...
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A woman having no luck with online dating creates an anonymous dating review app and is paired at work on a project with a haughty content writer whom she realizes is the most-reviewed walking red flag on her app.