BAIO Book Club: Electricity
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Tim Hwang
Apr 6, 2014, 11:37:13 AM4/6/14
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Hello BAIO -
Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet. The story of the ARPANET and how it transitioned into the Internet. Ends around 1990, when ARPANET was shut down, but before the Web. Dovetails with the PARC book and has some of the same characters.
Thanks to everyone who came out to the UPS tour earlier this week! Cooking up our next trip presently, so you should be seeing the invite for the next one in your inbox sometime this week.
Our next BAIO book club will be on electricity and electrification at the the end of the 19th century - the reading is Jill Jonnes's Empires of Light - http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/507952.Empires_of_Light.
Meeting will be May 11 - from 2-4 PM. I'll give a shout as we get a bit closer on location. Hope to see some of you there!
Also, I've attached Jason Crawford's computer history book list below - which came up last meeting, if you're interested.
-Tim
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Computer: A History of the Information Machine. Single best overview, from Babbage to today.
Computing: A Concise History. An alternate overview book.
The Chip: How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution. Story of the invention of the integrated circuit.
Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age. Includes the stories of the Alto (first PC/GUI and inspiration for Mac and Windows), the laser printer, and Ethernet.
Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet. The story of the ARPANET and how it transitioned into the Internet. Ends around 1990, when ARPANET was shut down, but before the Web. Dovetails with the PARC book and has some of the same characters.
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation. Long, detailed history; covers the invention of the transistor, information theory, the cell phone, etc.
Go To: The Story of the Programmers Who Created the Software Revolution. Sort of episodic; a collection of stories about everything from the first programming languages to the creation of spreadsheets, databases, and more.
Tim Hwang
May 9, 2014, 3:13:46 AM5/9/14
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Bumping! BAIO book club will be meeting this weekend - still working out the exact location, so just drop me an e-mail if you're attending on Sunday!
-Tim
Tim Hwang
May 11, 2014, 1:00:05 PM5/11/14
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Hi BAIO,
Apologies for the delay on this! Alternative location fell through, so we'll be meeting up at our usual place (my apartment) - 2502 Folsom Street, SF CA (corner of 21st and Folsom), going from 2-4 PM. Hope to see some of you there!
-Tim
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