Computer Science

Computer science is the scientific and practical approach to computation and its applications. It is the systematic study of the feasibility, structure, expression, and mechanization of the methodical procedures (or algorithms) that underlie the acquisition, representation, processing, storage, communication of, and access to information, whether such information is encoded as bits in a computer memory or transcribed in genes and protein structures in a biological cell. A computer scientist specializes in the theory of computation and the design of computational systems.

Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip
Source Code: My Beginnings
The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI
This Is for Everyone: The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Web
Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI
Focus: The ASML way - Inside the power struggle over the most complex machine on earth
Quantum Supremacy
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race
The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want – Exposing Surveillance Capitalism and Artificial Intelligence Myths in Information Technology Today
AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future
Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit
Picks and Shovels (Martin Hench, #3)
Scary Smart: The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World
Introduction to Algorithms
The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
Designing Data-Intensive Applications
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction
The C Programming Language
Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (Addison-wesley Object Technology Series)
Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
The Algorithm Design Manual
Introduction to the Theory of Computation
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Women in Science
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Open Syllabus R Books
83 books — 1 voter


Alan Kay
I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras. ...more
Alan Kay

Ich langte in meine Tasche nach einem Milky Way - was sonst für einen Astronomen - und machte es mir bequem, um den Hacker auf meinem grünen Monitor zu beobachten.
Clifford Stoll, The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage

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