Books

Where did modern computing really come from?   Not from garages in California, but from bootleggers, codebreakers, and Cold War air‑defense engineers. This book reveals a lineage that almost no computing history traces:   Prohibition‑era encrypted radio → Elizebeth & William Friedman → OP‑20‑G → MIT Whirlwind → SAGE → Engineering Research Associates → Control Data → Seymour Cray. From Capone’s smugglers to Cray’s supercomputers, the story of U.S. large‑scale computing is a straight line, just one that has been forgotten. Combining deep historical research with firsthand experience from the CRAY‑1 era, this book shows how cryptology, radar, and national‑security urgency created the machines that defined modern computing. If you think you know the origins of the computer revolution, this book will change your mind.

What if you could learn to spot patterns earlier, before the data are clear, before the story is obvious, before others see what's coming?   Unexpected Histories: Demonstrating that Humans are Still Better at Pattern Recognition reveals how real people did exactly that across witch trials, antitrust battles, gangland safe havens, naval warfare, codebreaking, and the secret birth of computing.   These stories teach practical lessons in intuition, clear thinking, and detecting signal in noise, skills more valuable now than ever.

"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."

A Cray Research veteran teaches you 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. These same skills (pattern recognition, cross-domain connections, different perspectives) form the foundation of modern Artificial Intelligence.

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.