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Simon Bisson

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Born

in St Helier, Jersey

Website

http://www.sandm.co.uk/

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Science Fiction, Nonfiction

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Born on the Channel Island of Jersey, Simon moved to the UK to attend the University of Bath where he studied electrical and electronic engineering.

Since then, a varied career has included being part of the team building the world's first solid state 30KW HF radio transmitter, writing electromagnetic modelling software for railguns, and testing the first ADSL equipment in the UK.

He also built one the UK's first national ISPs, which is still running, before spending several years developing architectures for large online services for many major brands.

For the last two decades he's been a freelance writer, specialising in enterprise technologies and development. He works with his wife and writing partner Mary Branscombe from a small house in ...more

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	Hummingbird Futures: Stories of Magic and Machines 4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Azure AI Services at Scale for Cloud, Mobile, and Edge: Building Intelligent Apps with Azure Cognitive Services and Machine Learning by Simon Bisson (Goodreads Author), Mary Branscombe, Chris Hoder 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How to Do Everything: Windows 8 by Mary Branscombe, Simon Bisson (Goodreads Author), Eric Butow 2.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2012 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Azure AI Services at Scale for Cloud, Mobile, and Edge by Simon Bisson (Goodreads Author), Mary Branscombe, Chris Hoder it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Azure AI Services at Scale for Cloud, Mobile, and Edge: Using Azure Cognitive Services and Machine Learning to Build Apps by Anand Raman, Chris Hoder, Simon Bisson (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ultimate BlackBerry Guide 4 MagBook by Know Your Mobile published by Dennis Publishing (2011) by Simon Bisson (Goodreads Author), Mary Branscombe, Richard Goodwin 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Windows 8 Executive Summary: What Your Business Needs to Know: An insightful, technical, and unapologetically opinionated look at the impact Windows ... Server 2012 will have on your business. 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Death in a Strange Country (Commissario Brunetti, #2)

by Donna Leon

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Croma Venture (The Spiral Wars, #5)

by Joel Shepherd (Goodreads Author)

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