The Deep Web

by David Cope

Dave, the only name we know him by, teaches computer science at a junior college on the east coast. His teaching brings him into the Dark Web and to a supposedly anonymous site offering assassinations for a price. His curiosity leads him to an open window in which someone types his name and thanks him for telling them where he lives. Suddenly realizing he now has an assassin after him, Dave runs. Finding anonymity hard to find, he tosses everything he owns and begins a coast-to-coast journey that leads him to a variety of unexpected and undesired dead ends of which he suspects he may soon be one.

344 pages, Paperback

Published September 8, 2016

About the author

David “Dave” Cope was an American author, composer, scientist, and Dickerson Emeriti Professor of Music at UC Santa Cruz. His primary area of research involved artificial intelligence and music; he wrote programs and algorithms that can analyze existing music and create new compositions in the style of the original input music. He taught the groundbreaking summer workshop in Workshop in Algorithmic Computer Music (WACM) that was open to the public as well as a general education course entitled Artificial Intelligence and Music for enrolled UCSC students. Cope was also co-founder and CTO Emeritus of Recombinant Inc., a music technology company.