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The Computer and the Brain
The Computer and the Brain
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John von Neumann

3.91 avg rating — 846 ratings
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The Annotated Turing: A Gui...
The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine
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Charles Petzold

4.27 avg rating — 1,186 ratings
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The New Turing Omnibus: 66 ...
The New Turing Omnibus: 66 Excursions In Computer Science
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A.K. Dewdney

3.87 avg rating — 349 ratings
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Computers Ltd: What They Re...
Computers Ltd: What They Really Can't Do
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David Harel

3.95 avg rating — 92 ratings
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The Universal Computer: The...
The Universal Computer: The Road from Leibniz to Turing, Third Edition
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Martin Davis

4.50 avg rating — 18 ratings
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[Code]: The Hidden Language...
[Code]: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software - 2022, Second Edition, Paperback
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Charles Petzold

4.40 avg rating — 10,677 ratings
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Computer Power and Human Re...
Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation
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Joseph Weizenbaum

4.31 avg rating — 294 ratings
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What is the P vs NP problem...
What is the P vs NP problem?: A complete explanation of the biggest unsolved problem in Computer Science
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Ramaswami Mohandoss

4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Four Colors Suffice: How th...
Four Colors Suffice: How the Map Problem Was Solved - Revised Color Edition
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Robin J. Wilson

4.70 avg rating — 10 ratings
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In Pursuit of the Traveling...
In Pursuit of the Traveling Salesman: Mathematics at the Limits of Computation
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William J. Cook

3.88 avg rating — 223 ratings
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The Little Black Book of Co...
The Little Black Book of Computer Viruses: The Basic Technology
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Mark A. Ludwig

4.06 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Hackers: Heroes of the Comp...
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
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Steven Levy (Goodreads Author)

4.16 avg rating — 8,604 ratings
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Rebel Code: Linux And The O...
Rebel Code: Linux And The Open Source Revolution
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Glyn Moody

3.94 avg rating — 564 ratings
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The Hacker Ethic: A Radical...
The Hacker Ethic: A Radical Approach to the Philosophy of Business
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Pekka Himanen

3.75 avg rating — 778 ratings
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It's behind you - The makin...
It's behind you - The making of a computer Game
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Bob Pape

4.22 avg rating — 114 ratings
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Masters of Doom: How Two Gu...
Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
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David Kushner

4.30 avg rating — 20,309 ratings
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16 books · 1 voter · list created October 3rd, 2025 by Ramon (votes) .
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