Wikipedia:WikiProject Computing/List of books on the history of computing

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Books for younger readers
Books about end-user computer applications

Bibliographies and dictionaries

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  • Abshire, Gary M. (1980). The Impact of Computers on Society and Ethics: A Bibliography. Creative Computing Press. ISBN 0-916688-17-8.
  • Allan, Roy A. (2005). A Bibliography of the Personal Computer. Allan Publishing. ISBN 0-9689108-4-X.. Contains over 280 book notations and over 250 periodical notations.
  • Beach, Ann F.; et al. (1954). Bibliography on the Use of IBM Machines in Science, Statistics, and Education. IBM. Compiled at the Watson Scientific Computing Laboratory (there is also a 1956 edition)
  • Carter, Ciel (1974). Guide to Reference Sources in the Computer Sciences. Macmillan Information.
  • Charles Babbage Institute (2003). "CBI Software History Bibliography" (PDF). Retrieved 2009-06-07.
  • Cortada, James W. (1983). An Annotated Bibliography on the History of Data Processing. Greenwood. ISBN 0-313-24001-9.
  • Cortada, James W. (1987). Historical Dictionary of Data Processing: Organizations. Greenwood.
  • Cortada, James W. Historical Dictionary of Data Processing: Technology. Greenwood.
  • Cortada, James W. (1996). A Bibliographic Guide to the History of Computing, Computers, and the Information Processing Industry [. Greenwood. |url= http://www.cbi.umn.edu/hostedpublications/ }} Contains 2500 entries.
  • Cortada, James W. (1996). Second Bibliographic Guide to the History of Computing, Computers, and the Information Processing Industry. Greenwood. Contains 4500 entries.
  • Cortada, James W. (1996). A Bibliographic Guide to the History of Computer Applications, 1950-1990. Greenwood.
  • "ECHO (Exploring and Collecting History Online)". Center for History and New Media. Retrieved 2009-06-07. a directory to 5,000+ websites concerning the history of science, technology, and industry. You can search it, browse it according to category ...
  • Ferris, L.; et al. (1948). Bibliography on the Uses of Punched Cards. American Chemical Society.
  • Greenia, Mark (2001). History of Computing: An Encyclopedia of the People and Machines that Made Computer History (CD-ROM). Lexikon Services. ISBN 0-944601-78-2.
  • Greenia, Mark (2002–2003). "Lexikon's History of Computing Bibliography". Lexikon Services. Retrieved 2009-06-07.
  • Hoffmann, Walter; Hellmann, Linda (trans.) (1958). Computer Literature Survey: A Key to the Language of Computers. IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center.
  • Misa, Thomas J. (2009). "Bibliography for History of Computing". Charles Babbage Institute. Retrieved 2009-06-07.
  • Pritchard, Alan (1969). A Guide to Computer Literature. Archon Books.
  • Rojas, Raul (2001). Encyclopedia of Computers and Computer History. Routledge. ISBN 1-57958-235-4.
  • Tomash, Edwin; Williams, Michael R. (2009). The Erwin Tomash Library on the History of Computing: An Annotated and Illustrated Catalog. (privately printed).
  • Yost, Jeffrey R. (2002). Bibliographic Guide to Resources in Scientific Computing, 1945-1975. Greenwood.
  • Youden, W.W. (1965). Computer Literature Bibliography 1946 to 1963 (NBS misc pub 266). US GPO.
  • Youden, W.W. (1968). Computer Literature Bibliography, vol.2, 1964 to 1967 (NBS special pub 309). US GPO.
  • n/a (1968). Computer Literature Bibliography, July 1966 through December 1967. IEEE. {microfiche)

Chronologies, surveys

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Biographies

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Biographies appropriate to specific sections are generally placed in those sections. Those here are collections or for individuals whose activities span multiple sections.
  • Brockman, John (1996). Digerati: Encounters with the Cyber Elite. HardWired. ISBN 1-888869-04-6.
  • Caddes, Carolyn (1986). Portraits of Success: Impressions of Silicon Valley Pioneers. Tioga.
  • Cortada, James W. Historical Dictionary of Data Processing: Biographies. Greenwood.
  • Grosh, Herbert R. (2003). Computer: Bit Slices from a Life, 3rd ed. (1992 edition, Underwood Books, ISBN 0-88733-084-3)
  • Jager, Rama Dev; Oritiz, Rafael (1997). In the Company of Giants: Candid Conversations with the Visionaries of the Digital World. McGraw-Hill.
  • Lee, J.A.N. (1995). Computer Pioneers. IEEE. ISBN 0-8186-6357-X. (the two Lee books are likely the same book, one printed in the U.S, the other in England)
  • Lee, J.A.N. (1995). International Biographical Dictionary of Computer Pioneers. Routledge. ISBN 1-884964-47-8.
  • Mims, Forrest M., III (1986). Siliconnections: Coming of Age in the Electronic Era. McGraw-Hill.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Rosenberg, Jerry (1969). The Computer Prophets. Macmillan.
  • Shasta, Dennis; Lazere, Cathy (1995). Out of Their Minds: The Lives and Discoveries of 15 Great Computer Scientists. Copernicus. ISBN 0-387-97992-1.
  • Slater, Robert (1987). Portraits in Silicon. MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-19262-4.
  • Tajnai, Carolyn E. (1985). Fred Terman, The Father of Silicon Valley. Stanford.

General history (from earliest times to the present)

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  • Akera, Atsushi; Nebeker, Frederik (eds.) (2002). From 0 to 1: An Authoritative History of Modern Computing. Oxford. ISBN 0-19-514025-7. {{cite book}}: |author2= has generic name (help)
  • Augarten, Stan (1984). Bit by Bit: An Illustrated History of Computers. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 0-89919-302-1.
  • Barrett, Neil (2006). The Binary Revolution: The History and Development of The Computer. WN. ISBN 0-297-84738-4.
  • Beniger, James R. (1986). The Control Revolution: Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society. Harvard. ISBN 0-674-16985-9.
  • Blohm, Hans; Beer, Stafford; Suzuki, David (1986). Pebbles to Computers: The Thread. Oxford. ISBN 0-19-540536-6.
  • Bolter, Jay David (1991). Writing Space: The Computer, Hypertext, and the History of Writing. Lawrence Erlbaum. ISBN 1-56321-067-3.
  • Burke, Colin B.; Buckland, Michael K. (1994). Information and Secrecy: Vannevar Bush, Ultra, and the Other Memex. The Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0-8108-2783-2.
  • Campbell-Kelly, Martin; Croarken, Mary; Flood, Raymond; Robson, Elanor (2003). The History of Mathematical Tables: From Sumer to Spreadsheets. Oxford.
  • Chandler, Alfred Dupont; Cortada, James W. (eds.) (2003). A Nation Transformed by Information: How Information Has Shaped the United States from Colonial Times to the Present. Oxford. {{cite book}}: |author2= has generic name (help)
  • Eames, Charles and Ray; Fleck, G .(ed). (1990). A Computer Perspective: Background to the Computer Age, New Edition. Harvard.
  • Essinger, James (2004). Jacquard's Web: How a Hand-Loom Led to the Birth of the Information Age. Oxford. ISBN 0-19-280577-0.
  • Evans, Christopher (1981). The Making of the Micro: A History of the Computer. Van Nostrand Reinhold. ISBN 0-442-22240-8.
  • Fagen, M. D. (editor), National Service in War and Peace (1925-1975), Volume II of A History of Engineering and Science in the Bell System (Bell Telephone Laboratories, 1978)
  • Freed, Les (1995). The History of Computers. Ziff Davis. ISBN 1-56276-275-3.
  • Glaser, Anton (1981). History of Binary. Tomash. ISBN 0-938228-00-5.
  • Goldstine, Herman (1972). The Computer from Pascal to von Neumann. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-02367-0.
  • Gu, Baotong (2009). From Oracle Bones to Computers: The Emergence of Writing Technologies in China. Parlor Press. ISBN 978-1-60235-100-4.
  • Ifrah, Georges (2001). The Universal History of Computing: From the Abacus to the Quantum Computer. Wiley. ISBN 0-471-44147-3. (trans. of 1994 French ed.)
  • Kidwell, Peggy; Ceruzzi, Paul (1994). Landmarks in Digital Computing: A Smithsonian Pictorial History. Smithsonian. ISBN 1-56098-311-6.
  • Metropolis, Nicholas; Howlett, J.; Rota, Gian-Carlo (eds.) (1980). A History of Computing in the Twentieth Century. Academic Press. ISBN 0-12-491650-3. {{cite book}}: |author3= has generic name (help)
  • Nash, Stephen G., ed. (1990). A History of Scientific Computing. Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0-201-50814-1. (see also Herb Grosch's review inIEEE Annals of the History of Computing vol.15.1 1993)
  • Norman, Jeremy M. (2005). From Gutenberg to the Internet. HistoryofScience.com. ISBN 0-930405-87-0.
  • Nyce, James M.; Kahn, Paul (1991). From Memex To Hypertext. Academic Press. ISBN 978-0-12-523270-8.
  • O'Regan, Gerard (2008). A Brief History of Computing. Springer. ISBN 978-1-84800-083-4.
  • Pugh, Emerson W. (1994). Building IBM: Shaping an Industry & its Technology. MIT Press.
  • Rawlins, Gregory J. E. (1998). Slaves of the Machine: The Quickening of Computer Technology. MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-68102-1.
  • Reilly, Edwin D. (2003). Milestones in Computer Science and Information Technology. Greenwood.
  • Shurkin, Joel N. (1996). Engines of the Mind: The Evolution of the Computer from Mainframes to Microprocessors. W.W. Norton. ISBN 0-393-31471-5.
  • Smith, Ludovic D. (2006). Crash! The Story of the Computer and IT from Babbage to the Era of Internet Worms, Open Source, Web Services and SOA. Corrillium Press Limited. ISBN 0-9552634-0-9.
  • Williams, Michael R. (1997). A History of Computing Technology, 2nd ed. IEEE Computer Society Press. ISBN 0-8186-7739-2.

Before digital computers (to about the 1940s)

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Abacus
  • Pullen, J.M. (1969). History of the Abacus. Praeger.
Mechanical Calculators
  • Grier, David Alan (2005). When Computers Were Human. Princeton. ISBN 0-691-09157-9.
  • Martin, Ernst; Kidwell, Peggy Aldrich (ed.); Williams, Michael R. (ed.) (1925). The Calculating Machines (Die Rechenmaschinen): Their History and Development. Charles Babbage Institute Reprint Series for the History of Computing. Vol. 16. ISBN 0-262-13278-8. {{cite book}}: |author2= has generic name (help) Translation 1992
  • Russo, Thomas A. (2001). Antique Office Machines: 600 Years of Calculating Devices. Schiffer. ISBN 0-7643-1346-0.
  • Turck, J.A.V. (1921). The Origin of Modern Calculating Machines. Western Society of Engineers. Reprinted: Arno, 1972.

Analog computation

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Analog computers
  • Crank, J. (1947). The Differential Analyzer. Longmans, Green.
  • Hartree, Douglas R. (1949). Calculating Instruments and Machines. Charles Babbage Institute Reprint Series for the History of Computing. Vol. 6. University of Illinois. ISBN 0-262-08147-4.
  • Murray, Francis J. (1961). Mathematical Machines vol.2: Analog Devices. Columbia.
  • Small, James S. (2001). The Analogue Alternative: The Electric Analogue Computer in Britain and the USA, 1930-1975. Routledge. ISBN 0-415-27119-3.
  • Svoboda, Antonín (1948). Computing Mechanisms and Linkages. McGraw-Hill. (Radiation Laboratory Series vol.27)
Slide Rules
  • Cajori, Florian (1994). A History of the Logarithmic Slide Rule and Allied Instruments and on the History of Gunter's Scale and the Slide Rule During the Seventeenth Century. Astragel. ISBN 1-879335-52-2. (reprint of 1910 edition, with a 1920 paper added)
  • Hopp, Peter M. (1999). Slide Rules:Their History, Models, and Makers. Astragal. ISBN 978-1-879335-86-8.
Graphical computation, Nomograms, Planimeter, Integrometer, Integraph, ...
  • d 'Ocagne, Maurice (1928). Le Calcul Simplifie: Graphical and Mechanical Methods for Simplifying Calculation. Charles Babbage Institute Reprint Series for the History of Computing. Vol. 11. Translated by J. Howlett and M.R. Williams. ISBN 0-262-15032-8.
  • Levens, Alexander S. (1959). Nomography, 2nd ed. Wiley.
  • Lipka, Joseph (1918). Graphical and Mechanical Computation. Wiley.
  • Murray, Francis J. (1948). The Theory of Mathematical Machines, rev. ed. King's Crown.
  • Babbage, Charles; Babbage, Henry Prevost (ed.) (1982) [1889]. Babbage's Calculating Engines. Being a collection of papers relating to them: their history, and construction. Charles Babbage Institute Reprint Series for the History of Computing. Vol. 2. E. and F.N. Spon (London). ISBN 978-0-262-02200-2. {{cite book}}: |author2= has generic name (help)
  • Babbage, Charles; Campbell-Kelly, Martin (ed) (1994). Passages from the Life of a Philosopher. Rutgers/IEEE Press. ISBN 0-8135-2066-5. {{cite book}}: |author2= has generic name (help)
  • Babbage, Charles (1989). The Works of Charles Babbage. New York U.
  • Baum, Joan (1986). The Calculating Passion of Ada Byron. Archon.
  • Buxton, H.W.; Hyman, Anthony (ed.) (1988). Memoir of the Life and Labours of the late Charles Babbage Esq. F.R.S. Charles Babbage Institute Reprint Series for the History of Computing. Vol. 13. Tomash. ISBN 0-262-02269-9. {{cite book}}: |author2= has generic name (help)
  • Donnelly, James (1992). A Modern Difference Engine: Software Simulators for Charles Babbage's Difference Engine No. 2. Armstrong.
  • Dubbey, J.M. (1978). The Mathematical Work of Charles Babbage. Cambridge.
  • Elwin, Malcolm (1975). Lord Byron's Family: Annabella, Ada, and Augusta 1816-1824. John Murray (London).
  • Hammerman, Robin; Russell, Andrew L. (2015). Ada's Legacy: Cultures of Computing from the Victorian to the Digital Age. Association for Computing Machinery and Morgan & Claypool (New York). doi:10.1145/2809523. ISBN 978-1-97000-149-5.
  • Hyman, Anthony (1982). Charles Babbage: Pioneer of the Computer. Princeton. ISBN 0-691-08303-7.
  • Lindgren, Michael (1990). Glory and Failure: The Difference Engines of Johann Muller, Charles Babbage and Georg and Edvard Scheutz. MIT Press.
  • Moore, Doris Langley (1977). Ada, Countess of Lovelace: Byron's Legitimate Daughter. John Murray (London).
  • Morrison, Philip; Morrison, Emily (eds.) (1961). Charles Babbage and his Calculating Engines: Selected Writings by Charles Babbage and Others. Dover. {{cite book}}: |author2= has generic name (help)
  • Moseley, Maboth (1964). Irascible Genius: A Life of Charles Babbage, Inventor. Hutchinson.
  • Stein, Dorthy (1986). Ada: A Life and A Legacy. MIT Press.
  • Swade, Doran (1991). Charles Babbage and his calculating Engines. London Science Museum.
  • Swade, Doran (2000). The Cogwheel Brain: Charles Babbage and the quest to build the first computer. Little, Brown.
  • Swade, Doran (2001). The Difference Engine: Charles Babbage and the Quest to Build the First Computer. Viking. ISBN 0-670-91020-1.
  • Toole, Betty Alexandra, ed. (1998). Ada, the Enchantress of Numbers:A Selection from the Letters of Lord Byron's Daughter and Her Description of the First Computer. Critical Connection. ISBN 0-912647-09-4.
  • Toole, Betty Alexandra, ed. (1998). Ada, the Enchantress of Numbers: Prophet of the Computer Age. Strawberry. ISBN 0-912647-18-3.
  • Beach, Ann F.; et al. (1954). Bibliography on the Use of IBM Machines in Science, Statistics, and Education. IBM. Compiled at the Watson Scientific Computing Laboratory (there is also a 1956 edition)
  • Ferris, L.; et al. (1948). Bibliography on the Uses of Punched Cards. American Chemical Society.
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  • Austrian, G.D. (1982). Herman Hollerith: The Forgotten Giant of Information Processing. Columbia.
  • Baehne, G.W., ed. (1935). Practical Applications of the Punched Card Method in Colleges and Universities. Columbia.
  • Bohme, Frederick G. (1991). 100 years of data processing: the punchcard century (SuDoc C 3.2:D 26/10). US GPO.
  • Chapman, Carleton B. (1994). John Shaw Billings And America's Coming of Age. Countway.
  • Comrie, L.J. (1933). The Hollerith and Powers Tabulating Machines. privately printed (London).
  • Curtis, C.R. (1939) [1932]. Mechanised Accountancy: Being a Review of the Latest Methods of Mechanical Book-Keeping, Together With a Survey of the Machines Used. Charles Griffin (London).
  • Eckert, W.J. (1940). Punched Card Methods in Scientific Computation. Charles Babbage Institute Reprint Series for the History of Computing. Vol. 5. Thomas J. Watson Astronomical Computing Bureau. ISBN 0-262-05030-7.
  • Fierheller, George A. (2006). Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate: The 'Hole' Story of Punched Cards (PDF). Stewart.
  • Garrison, F.H. (1915). John Shaw Billings: A Memoir. Putnam.
  • Heide, Lars (2009). Punched-Card Systems and the Early Information Explosion, 1880--1945. John Hopkins U Press.
  • IBM (1935). Machine Methods of Accounting (PDF). IBM.
  • Lydenberg, Harry Miller (1924). John Shaw Billings. Am. Library Assoc.
  • Love, Albert G.; Hamilton, Eugene L.; Hellman, Ida L. (1958). Tabulating Equipment and Army Medical Statistics. Office of the Surgeon General.
  • Province, Charles M. (2009). General Patton's Punch Cards: A short history of Mobile Machine Records Units and IBM Punch Card Machines in World War II. CreateSpace.
  • Scientific American (1890). (Punched card issue) Aug 30, 1890.
  • Truesdell, Leon E. (1965). The Development of Punch Card Tabulation in the Bureau of the Census, 1890-1940. US GPO.

Early giants, mechanical and vacuum tube calculators/computers (1940s, early 50s)

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Early ... in Britain

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  • Bird, Peter J. (1994). LEO: The First Business Computer. Hasler.
  • Bowden, Bertram V. (ed.) (1953). Faster Than Thought: A Symposium on Digital Computing Machines. Pitman. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Caminer, David (1996). User-Driven Innovation: The World's First Business Computer. McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0-07-709236-8.
  • Caminer, David; Land, Frank; Aris, John; Hermon, Peter (1997). Leo: The Incredible Story of the World's First Business Computer. McGraw-Hill.
  • Copeland, B. Jack (2006). Colossus: The Secrets of Bletchley Park's Code-breaking Computers. Oxford. ISBN 0-19-284055-X.
  • Croarken, Mary (1990). Early Scientific Computing in Britain. Clarendon.
  • Ferry, Georgina (2004). A Computer Called Leo. HarperCollins UK. ISBN 1-84115-186-6.
  • Gannon, Paul (2006). Colossus: Bletchley Park's Greatest Secret. Atlantic Books. ISBN 1-84354-330-3.
  • Hendry, John (1990). Innovating for Failure: Government Policy and the Early British Computer Industry. MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-08187-3.
  • Lavington, Simon (1980). Early British Computers. Digital Press (US), Manchester University Press (UK). ISBN 0-932376-08-8.
  • Wilkes, Maurice (1985). Memoirs of a Computer Pioneer. MIT Press.
  • Williams, M. R.; Campbell-Kelly, Martin (1989). The Early British Computer Conferences. Charles Babbage Institute Reprint Series for the History of Computing. Vol. 14. MIT Press.
  • Aspray, William (1990). John von Neumann and the origins of modern computing. MIT Press. Bibcode:1990jvno.book.....A.
  • MacRae, Norman (1992). John Von Neumann: The Scientific Genius who Pioneered the Modern Computer, Game Theory, Nuclear Deterrence, and Much More. Random House.
  • von Neumann, John (1945). First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC. reprinted in Stern, 1981
  • von Neumann, John (1958). The Computer and the Brain. Yale.
  • von Neumann, John; Taub, A.H. (ed.) (1961). Collected Works. 6 vols. Pegamon Press. {{cite book}}: |author2= has generic name (help)
  • von Neumann, John; Aspray, William (ed.); Burks, Arthur (ed.) (1987). Papers of John von Neuman on Computing and Computer Theory. Charles Babbage Institute Reprint Series for the History of Computing. Vol. 12. MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-22030-X. {{cite book}}: |author2= has generic name (help)

Modern history (from the 1950s to the present)

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  • Alderman, John; Richards, Mark (2007). Core Memory: A Visual Survey of Vintage Computers. Chronicle. ISBN 978-0-8118-5442-9.
  • Anderson, Virginia (2003). Digital Recall: Computers Aren't the Only Ones with Memory. IUniverse. ISBN 0-595-26759-9.
  • Avison, David; Elliot, Steve; Krogstie, John; Pries-Heje, Jan (eds.) (2006). The Past and Future of Information Systems: 1976 -2006 and Beyond: IFIP 19th World Computer Congress, TC-8, Information System Stream, August 21-23, 2006. Springer. ISBN 0-387-34631-7. {{cite book}}: |author4= has generic name (help)
  • Bardini, Thierry (2000). Bootstrapping: Douglas Engelbart, coevolution, and the origins of personal computing. Stanford.
  • Bernstein, Jeremy (1963). The Analytical Engine: Computers - Past, Present, and Future. Random House.
  • Bubenko, Janis; Impagliazzo, John; Solvberg, Arne (2005). History of Nordic Computing: IFIP WG9.7 First Working Conference on the History of Nordic Computing (HiNC1), June 16-18, 2003, Trondheim, Norway. Springer. ISBN 0-387-24167-1.
  • Campbell-Kelly, Martin; Aspray, William; Ensmenger, Nathan; Yost, Jeffrey (2013). Computer: A History of the Information Machine, 3rd ed. Westview.
  • Ceruzzi, Paul E. (1989). Beyond the limits: Flight enters the Computer Age. MIT Press.
  • Ceruzzi, Paul E. (2003). A History of Modern Computing, 2nd ed. MIT Press. ISBN 9780262532037.
  • Connolly, James (1967). History of Computing in Europe. IBM World Trade Corp.
  • Cortada, James W. The Digital Hand: How Computers Changed the Work of American Manufacturing, Transportation, and Retail Industries. Oxford.
  • Cortada, James W. (2005). The Digital Hand, Vol.2: How Computers Changed the Work of American Financial, Telecommunications, Media and Entertainment Industries. Oxford.
  • Cortada, James W. (2007). The Digital Hand, Vol 3: How Computers Changed the Work of American Public Sector Industries. Oxford.
  • Crevier, Daniel (1994). Ai: The Tumultuous History of the Search for Artificial Intelligence. Basic Books. ISBN 0-465-00104-1.
  • DeMaria, Rusel; Wilson, Johnny L. (2002). High Score! The Illustrated History of Electronic Games. Osborne/McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0-07-222428-2.
  • DiBona, Chris; Stone, Mark; Cooper, Danese (2005). Open Sources 2.0: The Continuing Evolution. O'Reilly. ISBN 0-596-00802-3.
  • Flamm, Kenneth (1987). Creating the Computer: Government, Industry and High Technology. Brookings Institution. ISBN 978-0-8157-2849-8.
  • Garfinkel, Simson L. (1999). Architects of the Information Society: Thirty-Five Years of the Laboratory for Computer Science at MIT. MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-07196-7.
  • Gerovitch, Slava (2002). From Newspeak to Cyberspeak: A History of Soviet Cybernetics. MIT Press.
  • Hey, Anthony J.G. (1998). Feynman And Computation: Exploring The Limits Of Computers. Westview. ISBN 0-7382-0057-3.
  • Jones, George (2005). Gaming 101: A Contemporary History of PC and Video Games. Wordware. ISBN 1-55622-080-4.
  • Kidder, Tracy (2000). The Soul Of A New Machine. Back Bay Books. ISBN 0-316-49197-7.
  • King, Lucien (2002). Game on: The History and Culture of Videogames. Laurence King Publishing. ISBN 1-85669-304-X.
  • Kirksey, Kirk (2005). Computer Factoids: Tales from the High-Tech Underbelly. iUniverse. ISBN 0-595-66440-7.
  • Lundstrom, David (1987). A Few Good Men from Univac. MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-62075-8.
  • Metropolis, Nicholas; Rota, Gian-Carlo (eds.) (1993). A New Era in Computation. MIT Press. {{cite book}}: |author2= has generic name (help)
  • Milburn, Gerard J. (1999). The Feynman Processor: Quantum Entanglement and the Computing Revolution. Basic Books. ISBN 0-7382-0173-1.
  • Miller, Richard Kendall (1987). Fifth generation computers. Prentice-Hall. ISBN 0-88173-050-5.
  • Misa, Thomas J. (2013). Digital State: The Story of Minnesota's Computing Industry. University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 978-0816683321. JSTOR 10.5749/j.ctt5hjk4h.
  • Moreau, René (1984). The Computer Comes of Age: The People, the Hardware, and the Software. MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-13194-3.
  • Neumann, Peter G. (1994). Computer-Related Risks. Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0-201-55805-X.
  • Oakman, Robert L. (1997). The Computer Triangle: Hardware, Software, People, 2nd ed. Wiley. ISBN 978-0-471-16965-9.
  • Palfreman, Jon; Swade, Doron (1993). Dream Machine: Exploring the Computer Age. BBC Books. ISBN 0-563-36992-2.
  • Pugh, Emerson W.; Johnson, Lyle R.; Palmer, John H. (1991). IBM's 360 and Early 370 Systems. MIT Press.
  • Rheingold, Howard (2000). Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology, 2nd ed. MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-68115-3.
  • Scientific American Special Issue on Communications, Computers, and Networks - September 1991 single issue devoted entirely to the three subjects listed in the title.
  • Swedin, Eric Gottfrid; Ferro, David L. (2005). Computers: The Life Story of a Technology. Greenwood.
  • Trogemann, Georg; Ernst, Wolfgang; Nitussov, Alexander Y. (ed.) (2001). History of Computer Devices in Russia. GWV-Vieweg. ISBN 3-528-05757-2. {{cite book}}: |author3= has generic name (help)
  • Van Burnham (2001). Supercade: A Visual History of the Videogame Age 1971-1984. MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-02492-6.
  • van den Ende, Jan (1994). The Turn of the Tide: Computerization in Dutch Society, 1900-1965. Delft University Press.
  • Vardalas, John N. (2001). The Computer Revolution in Canada: Building National Technological Competence. MIT Press.
  • Waldrop, M. Mitchell (2002). The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal. Penguin. ISBN 0-14-200135-X.
  • Warwick, Kevin (2004). March of the Machines: The Breakthrough in Artificial Intelligence. Illinois. ISBN 0-252-07223-5.
  • Wilson, James E. (2006). Vintage Laptop Computers: First Decade: 1980-89. Outskirts Press. ISBN 1-59800-489-1.
  • Woodbury, David O. (1956). Let ERMA Do It: The Full Story of Automation. Harcourt, Brace and Company. (General Electric)
  • Yates, JoAnne (2005). Structuring the Information Age: Life Insurance and Technology in the Twentieth Century. Johns Hopkins.
  • Augarten, Stan (1983). State of the Art: A photographic history of the printed circuit. Ticknos & Fields.
  • Bassett, Ross (2002). To the Digital Age: Research Labs, Start-Up Companies, and the Rise of MOS. John Hopkins.
  • Berlin, Leslie (2005). The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley. Oxford.
  • Kuehlmann, Andreas (2003). The Best of ICCAD. Springer. ISBN 978-1-4020-7391-5.
  • Queisser, Hans J. (1990). The Conquest of the Microchip. Harvard. ISBN 0-674-16297-8.
  • Reid, T.R. (1984). The Chip. Simon & Schuster.
  • Warshofsky, Fred (1989). The Chip War. Scribners. ISBN 0-684-18927-5.

Military and government

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See the Early Giants, above for those early machines developed for military or government applications
  • Agar, Jon (2003). The Government Machine: A Revolutionary History of the Computer. MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-01202-2.
  • Akera, Atsushi (2006). Calculating a Natural World: Scientists, Engineers, and Computers During the Rise of U.S. Cold War Research. MIT Press.
  • Bergin, Thomas, ed. (2000). Fifty Years of Army Computing. Army Research Laboratory.
  • Boslaugh, David L. (1999). When Computers Went to Sea: The Digitization of the U.S. Navy. IEEE Computer Society Press.
  • Edwards, Paul N. (1997). The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America. MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-55028-8.
  • Leslie, Stuart W. (1993). The Cold War and American Science: The Military-Industrial-Academic Complex at MIT and Stanford. Columbia.
  • Malinovsky, Boris (2001). Red Computers: how Russia lost the computer cold war. M.E. Sharpe.
  • Mussio, Laurence B. (2001). Telecom Nation: Telecommunications, Computers, and Governments in Canada. McGill-Queen's University Press. ISBN 0-7735-2175-5.
  • Norberg, Arthur L.; O'Neill, Judy E.; Freedman, Kerry J. (2000). Transforming Computer Technology: Information Processing for the Pentagon, 1962-1986 (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology). Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0-8018-6369-4.
  • Prokop, Jan, ed. (1976). Computers in the Navy. Naval Institute Press.
  • Redmond, Kent C.; Smith, Thomas M. (2000). From Whirlwind to MITRE: The R&D Story of the SAGE Air Defense Computer. MIT. ISBN 0-262-18201-7.
  • Roland, Alex; Shiman, Philip (2002). Strategic Computing: DARPA and the Quest for Machine Intelligence, 1983-1993. MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-18226-2.
  • Vardalas, John N. (2001). The Computer Revolution in Canada: Building National Technological Competence. MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-22064-4.

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Social history

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  • Abshire, Gary M. (1980). The Impact of Computers on Society and Ethics: A Bibliography. Creative Computing Press. ISBN 0-916688-17-8.
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