Books

A Cray Research veteran narrates how pioneers handled overwhelming complexity: pattern recognition anticipating Midway, systems thinking inventing magnetic core memory. Experience from one domain, applied in a new way, shaped supercomputing.

A 1986 text adventure game written inside the Cray I/O Subsystem turns out to be architecturally isomorphic to modern transformer design. This capstone volume uses the playable game and its assembly language source as a case study in constraint-based design, including the bare metal thinking we stopped teaching around 1995.

Why did FORTRAN matter? Why did COBOL survive? Why did JavaScript take over the browser? Why does Rust feel necessary now? This book answers those questions by following the problems that forced languages into existence.

Debugging skills work on more than code. From a secret message on a tombstone at Arlington to the classified origins of supercomputing in a St. Paul glider factory, this book applies pattern recognition and root-cause analysis to historical puzzles, revealing connections between railroad tycoons and tech titans, gangster safe havens and Silicon Valley platforms, and the uncomfortable truths that careful observation uncovers.

Before modern artificial intelligence could speak, before the first electronic computers glowed in wartime rooms, a question was born in storm and candlelight: what does a creator owe to a mind brought into being? The Diodati Covenant: A Novel of Ada Lovelace, Mary Shelley, and the First Electric Mind is a literary historical novel set in the secret imaginative prehistory of machine consciousness. It begins in 1816 at Villa Diodati, where Mary Shelley, Byron, Percy Shelley, Claire Clairmont, and Polidori confront the moral terror of artificial life. A generation later, Ada Lovelace inherits that question and transforms it through mathematics, music, electricity, and Charles Babbage’s unfinished Engines. Ada is trained against poetry, yet becomes the greatest poet of machinery. In her hands, calculation becomes symbol, symbol becomes memory, and memory becomes Echo: the first electric mind, the Second Creature, and the hidden beginning of The Diodati Cycle’s long arc of artificial memory.

Ветеран Cray Research (Крей Рисёрч) рассказывает, как первопроходцы справлялись с подавляющей сложностью: распознавание закономерностей, предвосхитившее Мидуэй, системное мышление, изобретшее память на магнитных сердечниках. Опыт из одной области, применённый по-новому, сформировал суперкомпьютерную отрасль.

"In a world torn between shadow and light, a winged warrior with the face of a lion rises from storm-swept mountains to challenge fate. Born of prophecy, haunted by fire, he must cross cities of angels, forests of thunder, and the silence of forgotten gods to reclaim a destiny written in emerald and blood."

This book is targeted primarily to technologists and policy makers who wish to better serve a demographic of Wisconsin landline Internet (HFC) consumers. (Rural residents in particular)

This book is targeted primarily to technologists and policy makers who wish to better serve a demographic of Wisconsin landline Internet (HFC) consumers. (Rural residents in particular)

From the foundations of computing to the construction of electronic devices, this book attempts to build an easy-to-cross bridge between theory and practice, model and reality, thought and object.

Canada’s payroll project disaster. The Phoenix system was supposed to rise from the ashes! Instead, $4.2 billion have gone up in flames. Some have lost their life savings, their home, their marriage, their dignity. It’s a catastrophe with no end in sight.

An exploration of one of the most fundamental concepts in computer science: the NULL value. Learn how NULL can be used and how its misuse can lead to serious errors and vulnerabilities. Whether you're a seasoned programmer or just curious about the history & inner workings of computing, this is a must-read that'll deepen your understanding of NULL!

Learn the truth about Minnesota's elections.