- Biobazaar
- Janet Hope
- Can the open source approach do for biotechnology what it has done for information technology? Hope's book is the first sustained and systematic inquiry into the application of open source principles to the life sciences. Traversing disciplinary boundaries, she presents a careful analysis of intellectual property-related challenges confronting the biotechnology industry and then paints a detailed picture of "open source biotechnology" as a possible solution.
- Hardcover 2008
- Coding and Redundancy
- Jack P. Hailman
- This book explores the strikingly similar ways in which information is encoded in nonverbal man-made signals (e.g., traffic lights and tornado sirens) and animal-evolved signals (e.g., color patterns and vocalizations). Appealing not only to specialists in semiotics, animal behavior, psychology, and allied fields but also to general readers, it serves as an introduction to animal signaling and to an important class of human communication.
- Hardcover 2008
- A Computer Perspective
- Charles Eames
- Ray Eames
- Edited by Glen Fleck
- Robert Staples, Producer
- Introduction by I. Bernard Cohen
- A sequence of 20th century ideas, events, and artifacts from the history of the information machine.
- Hardcover 1973 / Paperback 1990
- The Computer and the Mind
- Philip Johnson-Laird
- In a field choked with seemingly impenetrable jargon, Johnson-Laird has done the impossible: written a book about how the mind works that requires no advance knowledge of artificial intelligence, neurophysiology, or psychology. The mind, he says, depends on the brain in the same way as the execution of a program of symbolic instructions depends on a computer, and can thus be understood by anyone willing to start with basic principles of computation and follow his step-by-step explanations.
- Hardcover 1988 / Paperback
- The Conquest of the Microchip
- Hans Queisser
- Queisser tells the exciting story behind the birth of a new industry and a new knowledge that has resulted not only in a restructuring of science, technology, and industry but also in major rearrangements of political and economic power.
- Hardcover 1988 / Paperback 1990
- Creation
- Steve Grand
- Working mostly alone, almost single-handedly writing 250,000 lines of computer code, Steve Grand produced Creatures®, a revolutionary computer game that allowed players to create living beings complete with brains, genes, and hormonal systems--creatures that would live and breathe and breed in real time on an ordinary desktop computer. Enormously successful, the game inevitably raises the question: What is artificial life? And in this book--a chance for the devoted fan and the simply curious onlooker to see the world from the perspective of an original philosopher-engineer and intellectual maverick--Steve Grand proposes an answer.
- Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2003
- Gamer Theory
- McKenzie Wark
- Ever get the feeling that life's a game with changing rules and no clear sides? Welcome to gamespace, the world in which we live. Where others argue obsessively over violence in games, Wark contends that digital computer games are our society's emergent cultural form, a utopian version of the world as it is. Gamer Theory uncovers the significance of games in the gap between the near-perfection of actual games and the imperfect gamespace of everyday life in the rat race of free-market society.
- Hardcover 2007
- A Hacker Manifesto
- McKenzie Wark
- Drawing in equal measure on Debord and Deleuze, A Hacker Manifesto offers a systematic restatement of Marxist thought for the age of cyberspace and globalization. In the widespread revolt against commodified information, Wark sees a utopian promise, beyond the property form, and a new progressive class, the hacker class, who voice a shared interest in a new information commons.
- Hardcover 2004
- The Internet Challenge to Television
- Bruce M. Owen
- Television technology has begun to change at the same dizzying pace as computer software. What this will mean--for television, for computers, and for the popular culture where these video media reign supreme--is the subject of this timely book. A noted communications economist, Bruce Owen looks at the economic history of the television industry and at the effects of technology and government regulation on its organization.
- Hardcover 1999 / Paperback 2000
- The Internet and Society
- O'Reilly & Associates
- H. T. Kung
- Mixed 1997 / Paperback 1997
- Mind Children
- Hans Moravec
- Paperback 1990
- Regional Advantage
- AnnaLee Saxenian
- Why is it that business in California's Silicon Valley flourished while along Route 128 in Massachusetts declined in the 90s? The answer, Saxenian suggests, has to do with the fact that despite similar histories and technologies, Silicon Valley developed a decentralized but cooperative industrial system while Route 128 came to be dominated by independent, self-sufficient corporations. The result of more than one hundred interviews, this compelling analysis highlights the importance of local sources of competitive advantage in a volatile world economy.
- Paperback 1996 / Hardcover
- The Success of Open Source
- Steven Weber
- In spite of the conventional wisdom that innovation is driven by the promise of individual and corporate wealth, Steven Weber argues, ensuring the free distribution of code among computer programmers can create a more effective process for developing intellectual products. Weber argues that the success of open source is not a freakish exception to economic principles and explains the political and economic dynamics of this critical market development.
- Hardcover 2004 / Paperback 2005