Unexpected Histories: Spotting Patterns and Making Connections That Others Miss

Edward W. Barnard

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Table of Contents

The Day the Internet Died

The Day the Internet Died
- What Actually Happened?
- Timeline
- Attack
- Defense
- Boundaries
- Security Balance
- Summary
Silicon Valley Takedown
Transcontinental Railroad
- Railroading
- Nat and Mary Bowditch
- Clipper Ships
- Great Northern Railway
- Daniel Boone
- Summary

The First Silicon Valley Unicorn Startup

The Bigger They Come
The First Silicon Valley Unicorn Startup
“Incipient” Battles

The Secret in Arlington

The Secret in Arlington
Return With Honor
- Alternative Approach
- Pandemic
- Korea
- Code of Conduct
- Tap Code
- Disinformation and Deflection
- Vietnam Experience
- Victory Garden
- Final Checkpoint
- Concrete Implementation
- Summary
The Salem Trials

Safe Havens Then and Now

First Rate
Safe Havens Then and Now
Where Computers Come From
- Fascination
- Cryptology
- Herbert O. Yardley
- Sensitive Disclosures
- NSA-Related Reading

Top Secret Ultra

Top Secret Ultra
Bill Norris and Seymour Cray
Control Data Corporation

Road Map

Appendix A. HPC Tradecraft Road Map
- The 1995 Barrier
- Two Series
- Book 1. HPC Tradecraft for Computer Scientists: What We Stopped Teaching
- Book 2. Nobody but Us: A History of Cray Research and the Building of the World’s Fastest Supercomputer
- Book 3. The Wizard’s Lens: Learn to Think Like AI
- Book 4. High-Stakes Ethics
- Book 5. Unexpected Histories: Spotting Patterns and Making Connections That Others Miss
- Book 6. Constraint-Based Design: A Gateway to AI

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