Computer Science History

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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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    • 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 142 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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    • 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 187 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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    • 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 551 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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    • How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
    • By: Walter Isaacson
    • Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
    • Length: 17 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 07-10-2014
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 200 ratings
    • Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, The Innovators is Walter Isaacson’s revealing story of the people who created the computer and the Internet....

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    • The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
    • By: Paul E. Ceruzzi
    • Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon
    • Length: 3 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 30-10-2015
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The history of computing could be told as the story of hardware and software or the story of the Internet or the story of "smart" handheld devices....

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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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    • 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 13 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • What Killed Capitalism
    • By: Yanis Varoufakis
    • Narrated by: Yanis Varoufakis
    • Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 28-09-2023
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • Yanis Varoufakis explains how Big Tech has effected an invisible but fundamental transformation in all our lives....

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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 37 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 Technology That Transformed the World, from Benjamin Franklin to Elon Musk
    • By: Craig R. Roach
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 15 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 15-08-2017
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Simply Electrifying brings to life the 250-year history of electricity through the stories of the men and women who used it to transform our world....

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    • By: Max Tegmark
    • Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
    • Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 354 ratings
    • We stand at the beginning of a new era. What was once science fiction is fast becoming reality, as AI transforms war, crime, justice, jobs and society....

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    • The Weaponization of Social Media
    • By: P. W. Singer, Emerson T. Brooking
    • Narrated by: George Guidall
    • Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 02-10-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 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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    • 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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    • How Eight Technologies Made Us Human, Transformed Society, and Brought Our World to the Brink
    • By: Richard L. Currier
    • Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
    • Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 23-11-2015
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • Although we usually think of technology as something unique to modern times, our ancestors began to create the first technologies millions of years ago....

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    • By: Jon Ronson
    • Narrated by: Jon Ronson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 12-03-2015
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,935 ratings
    • From the Sunday Times top ten best-selling author of The Psychopath Test....

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