Computer Science History

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    • Resisting the Attention Economy
    • By: Jenny Odell
    • Narrated by: Rebecca Gidel
    • Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 15-07-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 45 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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    • A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
    • By: Yuval Noah Harari
    • Narrated by: Vidish Athavale
    • Length: 17 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 10-09-2024
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 77 ratings
    • The story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Sapiens....

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    • The Secret Contest to Invent Invisible Aircraft
    • By: Peter Westwick
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 04-05-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • On a moonless night in 1991, a dozen US aircraft appeared in the skies over Baghdad. To the Iraqi air defenses, the planes seemed to come from nowhere. Each aircraft was more than 60 feet in length and with a wingspan of 40 feet, yet its radar footprint was the size of a ball bearing....

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    • Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond
    • By: Gene Kranz
    • Narrated by: Danny Campbell
    • Length: 18 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 29-08-2011
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 186 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 Life and Times of Nikola Tesla: Biography of a Genius
    • By: Marc J. Seifer
    • Narrated by: Simon Prebble
    • Length: 22 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 07-11-2011
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), credited as the inspiration for radio, robots, and even radar, has been called the patron saint of modern electricity....

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    • By: Leon Neyfakh, Prologue Projects
    • Narrated by: Leon Neyfakh, Arielle Pardes
    • Series: Backfired
    • Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 20-06-2024
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 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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    • Cyber Attacks and the New Normal of Geopolitics
    • By: Ben Buchanan
    • Narrated by: Christopher Grove
    • Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 30-06-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • 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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    • The Inside Story of America's Apollo Moon Landings
    • By: Alan Shepard, Deke Slayton, Jay Barbree, Neil Armstrong - introduction by
    • Narrated by: Christopher Grove
    • Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 07-05-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • Desperate to beat the Russians into space, NASA put together a crew of the nation's most daring test pilots: the seven men who were to lead America to the moon. The first into space was Alan Shepard; the last was Deke Slayton, whose irregular heartbeat kept him grounded until 1975....

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    • A Non-Technical Introduction
    • By: Tom Taulli
    • Narrated by: Al Kessel
    • Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 27-04-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Artificial intelligence touches nearly every part of your day. Artificial Intelligence Basics has arrived to equip you with a fundamental, timely grasp of AI and its impact....

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    • The Geniuses, Visionaries, Egomaniacs, and Scoundrels Who Built Our Electronic Age
    • By: Derek Cheung, Eric Brach
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 14 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 01-03-2020
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 12 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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    • Inside the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster
    • By: Allan J. McDonald, James R. Hansen - contributor
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 26 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 07-08-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 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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    • The Incredible Sciences of the Ancients
    • By: David Hatcher Childress
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 30-01-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Popular Lost Cities author David Hatcher Childress takes us into the amazing world of ancient technology, from computers in antiquity to the flying machines of the gods....

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    • By: Walter Isaacson
    • Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb, Walter Isaacson
    • Length: 20 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 13-09-2023
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 518 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. He was in the hospital for a week.

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    • Human and Machine in Spaceflight
    • By: David A. Mindell
    • Narrated by: Kyle Tait
    • Length: 13 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 19-03-2019
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Digital Apollo examines the design and execution of each of the six Apollo moon landings, drawing on transcripts and data telemetry from the flights, astronaut interviews, and NASA's extensive archives....

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    • New Thinking: From Einstein to Artificial Intelligence, the Science and Technology That Transformed Our World
    • By: Dagogo Altraide
    • Narrated by: Ron Butler
    • Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 26-02-2019
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 52 ratings
    • Dagogo Altraide of YouTube's ColdFusion breaks down the history of gamechanger breakthroughs in the world of science and technology that have shaped our modern world and will impact the future....

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    • The Role of Failure in Successful Design
    • By: Henry Petroski
    • Narrated by: Matthew Boston
    • Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 27-03-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 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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    • MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
    • By: Mark Coeckelbergh
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 07-04-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • 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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    • Social Media: The First 2,000 Years
    • By: Tom Standage
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 10 hrs
    • Release date: 15-10-2013
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Papyrus rolls and Twitter have much in common, as each was their generation's signature means of "instant" communication....

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