Computer Science History

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    • Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond
    • Written by: Gene Kranz
    • Narrated by: Danny Campbell
    • Length: 18 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 2011-08-29
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 133 ratings
    • 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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    • The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
    • Written by: Tom Nichols
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 2017-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 62 ratings
    • People are now exposed to more information than ever before, provided both by technology and by increasing access to every level of education....

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    • Resisting the Attention Economy
    • Written by: Jenny Odell
    • Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
    • Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 2019-05-07
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 81 ratings
    • 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....

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    • Written by: Leon Neyfakh, Prologue Projects
    • Narrated by: Leon Neyfakh, Arielle Pardes
    • Series: Backfired
    • Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 2024-06-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • 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?

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    • The Surrender of Culture to Technology
    • Written by: Neil Postman
    • Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
    • Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 2012-09-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • In this witty, often terrifying work of cultural criticism, Postman chronicles our transformation into a Technopoly: a society that no longer uses technology as a support system but instead is shaped by it....

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    • The Geniuses, Visionaries, Egomaniacs, and Scoundrels Who Built Our Electronic Age
    • Written by: Derek Cheung, Eric Brach
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 14 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 2020-03-01
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • 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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    • MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
    • Written by: Mark Coeckelbergh
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 2020-04-07
    • Language: English
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    • Artificial intelligence powers Google's search engine, enables Facebook to target advertising, and allows Alexa and Siri to do their jobs. AI is also behind self-driving cars, predictive policing, and autonomous weapons that can kill without human intervention....

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    • Inside the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster
    • Written by: Allan J. McDonald, James R. Hansen - contributor
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 26 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 2018-08-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • 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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    • Written by: Walter Isaacson
    • Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb, Walter Isaacson
    • Length: 20 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 2023-09-12
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 397 ratings
    • 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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    • The Weaponization of Social Media
    • Written by: P. W. Singer, Emerson T. Brooking
    • Narrated by: George Guidall
    • Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 2018-10-02
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Two defense experts explore the collision of war, politics, and social media, where the most important battles are now only a click away. Through the weaponization of social media, the Internet is changing war and politics, just as war and politics are changing the Internet....

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    • How I Invented the Personal Computer and Had Fun Along the Way
    • Written by: Steve Wozniak, Gina Smith
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
    • Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 2006-12-01
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • The mastermind behind Apple sheds his low profile and steps forward to tell his story for the first time....

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    • Edwin Land, Polaroid, and the Kodak Patent War
    • Written by: Ronald K. Fierstein
    • Narrated by: Pete Larkin
    • Length: 24 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 2015-02-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • This riveting biography from the American Bar Association visits the spectacular life of Edwin Land, breakthrough inventor....

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    • How Inclusion Shapes Design (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life)
    • Written by: Kat Holmes, John Maeda - foreword
    • Narrated by: Kat Holmes
    • Length: 3 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 2020-01-28
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • In Mismatch, Kat Holmes describes how design can lead to exclusion, and how design can also remedy exclusion....

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    • The Role of Failure in Successful Design
    • Written by: Henry Petroski
    • Narrated by: Matthew Boston
    • Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 2018-03-27
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • 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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    • Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War
    • Written by: Paul Scharre
    • Narrated by: Roger Wayne
    • Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 2018-05-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • Paul Scharre, a Pentagon defense expert and former U.S. Army Ranger, explores what it would mean to give machines authority over the ultimate decision of life or death....

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    • Written by: Catherine D'Ignazio, Lauren F. Klein
    • Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
    • Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 2020-09-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • 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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    • Buckminster Fuller and the Future
    • Written by: Jonathon Keats
    • Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg
    • Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 2016-07-25
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • A compelling call to apply Buckminster Fuller's creative problem solving to present-day problems....

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    • The History of Video Games
    • Written by: Tristan Donovan, Richard Garriott
    • Narrated by: Gary Furlong
    • Length: 15 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 2017-06-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • A riveting account of the birth and remarkable evolution of the most important development in entertainment since television, Replay is the ultimate history of video games....

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    • Pioneers, Killing Machines, Artificial Intelligence, and the Battle for the Future
    • Written by: Seth J. Frantzman
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 2021-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Drones are transforming warfare through the use of artificial intelligence, drone swarms, and surveillance - leading to competition between the US, China, Israel, and Iran....

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