Computer Science History

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    • Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond
    • Auteur(s): Gene Kranz
    • Narrateur(s): Danny Campbell
    • Durée: 18 h et 14 min
    • Date de publication: 2011-08-29
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 135 évaluations
    • Gene Kranz was present at the creation of America's manned space program and was a key player in it for three decades....

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    • Auteur(s): Walter Isaacson
    • Narrateur(s): Jeremy Bobb, Walter Isaacson
    • Durée: 20 h et 39 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-09-12
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 409 évaluations
    • When Elon Musk was a kid in South Africa, he was regularly beaten by bullies. One day a group pushed him down some concrete steps and kicked him until his face was a swollen ball of flesh.

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    • Technology, Power, and the Twenty-First Century's Greatest Dilemma
    • Auteur(s): Mustafa Suleyman, Michael Bhaskar - contributor
    • Narrateur(s): Mustafa Suleyman
    • Durée: 11 h et 48 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-09-05
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 évaluations
    • We are approaching a critical threshold in the history of our species. Everything is about to change. Soon you will live surrounded by AIs. They will organize your life, operate your business, and run core government services.

    Prix courant: 26,22$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit
    • Auteur(s): Henry A. Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, Craig Mundie
    • Narrateur(s): Niall Ferguson, Byron Wagner
    • Durée: 6 h et 3 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-11-19
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • The rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has dramatically empowered people in all walks of life, from artists to business executives to policymakers. But as the technology becomes more powerful and more ubiquitous, it is giving rise to urgent questions about the future of humanity.

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    • Auteur(s): Leon Neyfakh, Prologue Projects
    • Narrateur(s): Leon Neyfakh, Arielle Pardes
    • Série: Backfired
    • Durée: 7 h et 21 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-06-20
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 11 évaluations
    • Backfired is the latest podcast from Prologue Projects, the award-winning team behind Slow Burn, Fiasco, and Think Twice: Michael Jackson. Backfired is a show about the business of unintended consequences—what happens when solving one problem inadvertently leads to a host of new ones?

    Prix courant: 37,53$ ou 1 crédit

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    • When We Merge with AI
    • Auteur(s): Ray Kurzweil
    • Narrateur(s): Adam Barr
    • Durée: 10 h et 25 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-06-25
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 17 évaluations
    • The noted inventor and futurist's successor to his landmark book The Singularity Is Near explores how technology will refashion the human race in the decades to come....

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    • Resisting the Attention Economy
    • Auteur(s): Jenny Odell
    • Narrateur(s): Rebecca Gibel
    • Durée: 8 h et 10 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-05-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 81 évaluations
    • A galvanizing critique of the forces vying for our attention - and our personal information - that redefines what we think of as productivity, reconnects us with the environment, and reveals all that we've been too distracted to see about ourselves and our world....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Inside the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster
    • Auteur(s): Allan J. McDonald, James R. Hansen - contributor
    • Narrateur(s): Jonathan Yen
    • Durée: 26 h et 32 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-08-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 évaluations
    • On a cold January morning in 1986, NASA launched the Space Shuttle Challenger, despite warnings against doing so by many individuals. The fiery destruction of Challenger on live television moments after launch remains an indelible image in the nation's collective memory....

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    • Machine Learning and Human Values
    • Auteur(s): Brian Christian
    • Narrateur(s): Brian Christian
    • Durée: 13 h et 33 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-10-06
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 35 évaluations
    • Today's "machine-learning" systems, trained by data, are so effective that we've invited them to see and hear for us - and to make decisions on our behalf. But alarm bells are ringing. Systems cull résumés until, years later, we discover that they have inherent gender biases.

    Prix courant: 32,00$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
    • Auteur(s): Ashlee Vance
    • Narrateur(s): Fred Sanders
    • Durée: 13 h et 23 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-05-19
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1 824 évaluations
    • Elon Musk is both an illuminating and authorized look at the extraordinary life of one of Silicon Valley's most exciting, unpredictable, and ambitious entrepreneurs....

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    • An Inside Account from Curiosity's Chief Engineer
    • Auteur(s): Rob Manning, William L. Simon
    • Narrateur(s): Bronson Pinchot
    • Durée: 7 h et 44 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-10-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 20 évaluations
    • In the course of our enduring quest for knowledge about ourselves and our universe, we haven't found answers to one of our most fundamental questions: Does life exist anywhere else in the universe....

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    • Cyber Attacks and the New Normal of Geopolitics
    • Auteur(s): Ben Buchanan
    • Narrateur(s): Christopher Grove
    • Durée: 11 h et 19 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-06-30
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 évaluations
    • Packed with insider information based on interviews, declassified files, and forensic analysis of company reports, The Hacker and the State sets aside fantasies of cyber-annihilation to explore the real geopolitical competition of the digital age....

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    • A Video Game, an Obsession, and America's Violent Past
    • Auteur(s): Tore C. Olsson
    • Narrateur(s): Roger Clark
    • Durée: 10 h et 28 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-08-06
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 évaluations
    • Red Dead Redemption and Red Dead Redemption II, set in 1911 and 1899, are the most-played American history video games since The Oregon Trail. How do they fare as re-creations of history? In this engaging book, award-winning American history professor Tore Olsson takes up that question and more.

    Prix courant: 26,21$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
    • Auteur(s): Max Tegmark
    • Narrateur(s): Rob Shapiro
    • Durée: 13 h et 29 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-08-29
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 368 évaluations
    • How will artificial intelligence affect crime, war, justice, jobs, society, and our very sense of being human? The rise of AI has the potential to transform our future more than any other technology....

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    • The Geniuses, Visionaries, Egomaniacs, and Scoundrels Who Built Our Electronic Age
    • Auteur(s): Derek Cheung, Eric Brach
    • Narrateur(s): Eric Jason Martin
    • Durée: 14 h et 8 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-03-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • Conquering the Electron offers listeners a true and engaging history of the world of electronics, beginning with the discoveries of static electricity and magnetism and ending with the creation of the smartphone and the iPad....

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    • The Role of Failure in Successful Design
    • Auteur(s): Henry Petroski
    • Narrateur(s): Matthew Boston
    • Durée: 8 h et 34 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-03-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 évaluations
    • More than a series of fascinating case studies, To Engineer Is Human is a work that looks at our deepest notions of progress and perfection, tracing the fine connection between the quantifiable realm of science and the chaotic realities of everyday life....

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    • Auteur(s): Catherine D'Ignazio, Lauren F. Klein
    • Narrateur(s): Teri Schnaubelt
    • Durée: 7 h et 37 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-09-23
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 évaluations
    • Data Feminism offers strategies for data scientists seeking to learn how feminism can help them work toward justice, and for feminists who want to focus their efforts on the growing field of data science....

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    • When Humans Transcend Biology
    • Auteur(s): Ray Kurzweil
    • Narrateur(s): George Wilson
    • Durée: 24 h et 38 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-12-10
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 38 évaluations
    • For over three decades, Ray Kurzweil has been one of the most respected and provocative advocates of the role of technology in our future. In his classic The Age of Spiritual Machines, he argued that computers would soon rival the full range of human intelligence at its best....

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    • A Tech Love Story
    • Auteur(s): Kara Swisher
    • Narrateur(s): Kara Swisher
    • Durée: 7 h et 40 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-02-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 33 évaluations
    • Part memoir, part history, Burn Book is a necessary chronicle of tech’s most powerful players. This is the inside story we’ve all been waiting for about modern Silicon Valley and the biggest boom in wealth creation in the history of the world....

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    • Paging Through History
    • Auteur(s): Mark Kurlansky
    • Narrateur(s): Andrew Garman
    • Durée: 13 h et 42 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-05-10
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 évaluations
    • A definitive history of paper and the astonishing ways it has shaped today's world....

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