Systems & Networks Books

The Quiet Zone
by Stephen Kurczy
Review
Present Future
by Guy Perelmuter
Review
An Ugly Truth
by Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang
Review
The Augmented Workforce
by Cathy Hackl, John Buzzell
Review
People Count
by Susan Landau
Review
AI For Lawyers
by Alexander Hudek, Noah Waisberg
Review
Data Action: Using Data for Public Good
by Sarah Williams
Review
World Wide Waste
by Gerry McGovern
Review
Recommendation Engines
by Michael Schrage
Review
Silicon Values
by Jillian C. York
Review
Software Engineering at Google
by Titus Winters, Tom Manshreck and Hyrum Wright
Review
The Perfect Police State
by Geoffrey Cain
Review
The Tyranny of Big Tech
by Josh Hawley
Review
The Atlas of AI
by Kate Crawford
Review
Artificial Intelligence and The Future of Power
by Rajiv Malhotra
Review
Multiplex and Multilevel Networks
by Antonios Garas, Guido Caldarelli, Stefano Battiston
Review
The Practice of Crowdsourcing
by Omar Alonso
Review
The AI Advantage
by Thomas H. Davenport and Paul Michelman
Review
The Hype Machine
by Sinan Aral
Review
Predict and Surveil
by Sarah Brayne
Review
The Internet in Everything
by Laura Denardis
Review
Blockchain Chicken Farm
by Xiaowei Wang
Review
Deep Learning with TensorFlow 2 and Keras
by Amita Kapoor, Antonio Gulli, Sujit Pal
Review
Turning Point
by Darrell M. West and John R. Allen
Review
Attacking Network Protocols
by James Forshaw
Review
Techlash
by Ian I. Mitroff and Rune Storesund
Review
Futureproof
by D. Asher Ghertner, Daniel M. Goldstein and Hudson McFann
Review
Power to the People
by Audrey Kurth Cronin
Review
Deep Reinforcement Learning Hands-On
by Maxim Lapan
Review
T-Minus AI
by Michael Kanaan
Review
Online Courts and the Future of Justice
by Richard Susskind
Review
The Information Trade
by Alexis Wichowski
Review
Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the Surveillance State
by Barton Gellman
Review
Cybersecurity – Attack and Defense Strategies
by Yuri Diogenes and Erdal Ozkaya
Review
Samsung Rising
by Geoffrey Cain
Review
Permanent Record
by Arthur King
Review
Optical WDM Networks: From Static to Elastic Networks
by Devi Chadha
Review
The Future Is Faster Than You Think
by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler
Review
Competing in the Age of AI
by Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhan
Review
The Social Fact: News and Knowledge in a Networked World
by John P. Wihbey
Review
Fire Doesn’t Innovate
by Kip Boyle
Review
Bitcoin Pizza: The No-Bullshit Guide to Blockchain
by Samantha Radocchia
Review
The Big Nine
by Amy Webb
Review
Digital Cash
by Finn Brunton
The White Paper
by Satoshi Nakamoto
Review
The Rules of Security: Staying Safe in a Risky World
by Paul Martin
Review
The Great Connecting: The Emergence of Global Broadband and How That Changes Everything
by Jim Cashel
Review
Bitcoin Billionaires: A True Story of Genius, Betrayal and Redemption
by Ben Mezrich
Review
The Twenty-Six Words That Created the Internet
by Jeff Kosseff
Review
The Blockchain and the New Architecture of Trust
by Kevin Werbach
Review
Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
by Safiya Umoja Noble
Review
Communication Networks: A Concise Introduction, Second Edition
by Jean Walrand, Shyam Parekh, and R. Srikant
Review
Internet Infrastructure: Networking, Web Services, and Cloud Computing
by Richard Fox and Wei Hao
Review
How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone
by Brian Mccullough
Review
Driving Eureka!: Problem-Solving with Data-Driven Methods & the Innovation Engineering System
by Doug Hall
Review
IoT and Low-Power Wireless: Circuits, Architectures, and Techniques (Devices, Circuits, and Systems)
by Christopher Siu
Review
Self-Organized Lightwave Networks: Self-Aligned Coupling Optical Waveguides
by Tetsuzo Yoshimura
Review
Distributed Ledger Technology: The Science of the Blockchain
by Roger Wattenhofer
Review
Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach
by John L. Hennessy and David A. Patterson
Review
Autonomy: The Quest to Build the Driverless Car–And How It Will Reshape Our World
by Lawrence Burns
Review
The Friendly Orange Glow: The Untold Story of the Plato System and the Dawn of Cyberculture
by Brian Dear
Review
Engineering Optical Networks
by Sudhir Warier
Review
Future Politics: Living Together in a World Transformed by Tech
by Jamie Susskind
Review
AI Supremacy: Winning in the Era of Machine Learning
by Daniel Wagner and Keith Furst
Review
Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in a Hyper-connected World
by Bruce Schneier
Review
Underbug: An Obsessive Tale of Termites and Technology
by Lisa Margonelli
Review
Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms
by Hannah Fry
Review
Bitwise: A Life in Code
by David Auerbach
Review
Meltdown: Why Our Systems Fail and What We Can Do about It
by Chris Clearfield and Andras Tilcsik
Review
The Perfect Weapon: war, sabotage, and fear in the cyber age
by David E. Sanger
Review
Reinventing Capitalism in the Age of Big Data
by Viktor Mayer-Schonberger and Thomas Ramge
Review
Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins
by Garry Kasparov
Review
Murmur
by Will Eaves
Review
Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence
by Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, and Avi Goldfarb
Review
Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet
by Claire L Evans
Review
Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain: Bitcoin, Blockchain, Ethereum & Smart Contracts
by David Gerard
Review
The Truth Machine: The Blockchain and the Future of Everything (International Edition)
by Michael J. Casey, Paul Vigna
Review
Hacking the Hacker: Learn From the Experts Who Take Down Hackers
by Roger A. Grimes
Review
Scale: The Universal Laws of Life and Death in Organisms, Cities and Companies
by Geoffrey West
Review
Mastering Bitcoin: Programming the Open Blockchain
by Andreas M. Antonopoulos
Review
Serious Cryptography
by Jean-Philippe Aumasson
Review
Quantum Communications in New Telecommunications Systems (Networks and Telecommunications)
by Malek Benslama, Achour Benslama, and Skander Aris
Review
Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us about Who We Really Are
by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
Review
Code Girls
by Liza Mundy
Review
Where The Animals Go: Tracking Wildlife with Technology in 50 Maps and Graphics
by James Cheshire, Oliver Uberti
Review
Cloud Computing for Science and Engineering (Scientific and Engineering Computation)
by Ian Foster and Dennis B. Gannon
Review
Borderless Behavior Analytics: Who’s Inside? What’re They Doing?
by Saryu Nayyar
Review
Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing the Digital Revolution
by Andrew Mcafee, Erik Brynjolfsson
Review
Curating Research Data: Volume 1: Practical Strategies for Your Digital Repository
by Lisa R. Johnston
Review
American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal MasterMind Behind the Silk Road
by Nick Bilton
Review
Computational Liquid Crystal Photonics: Fundamentals, Modelling and Applications
by Mohamed Farhat O. Hameed, Nihal F. F. Areed, and Salah Obayya
Review
Marconi: The Man Who Networked the World
by Marc Raboy
Review
Rise of the Machines: A Cybernetic History
by Thomas Rid
Review
Deep Learning
by Aaron Courville, Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio
Review
Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin Is Changing Money, Business, and the World
by Don Tapscott
Review
The Fintech Book: The Financial Technology Handbook for Investors, Entrepreneurs and Visionaries
by Janos Barberis, Susanne Chishti
Review
Computational Liquid Crystal Photonics: Fundamentals, Modelling and Applications
by Mohamed Farhat O. Hameed, Nihal F. F. Areed, Salah Obayya
Review
Windows Into the Soul: Surveillance and Society in an Age of High Technology
by Gary T. Marx
Review
Network Science
by Albert-László Barabási
Review
Understanding the Digital World: What You Need to Know About Computers, the Internet, Privacy, and Security
by Brian W. Kernighan
Review
The Power of Networks: Six Principles That Connect Our Lives
by Christopher G. Brinton, Mung Chiang
Review
The Network Security Test Lab: A Step-by-Step Guide
by Michael Gregg
Review
A Crude Look at the Whole: The Science of Complex Systems in Business, Life, and Society
by Miller H John
Review
How the Internet Became Commercial: Innovation, Privatization, and the Birth of a New Network
by Shane Greenstein
Review
Nonlinear Optical Systems: Principles, Phenomena, and Advanced Signal Processing (Optics and Photonics)
by Le Nguyen Binh and Dang Van Liet
Review
Reliability Characterisation of Electrical and Electronic Systems
by Jonathan Swingler
Review
The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money Are Challenging the Global Economic Order
by Paul Vigna and Michael Casey
Review
How the Internet Became Commercial: Innovation, Privatization, and the Birth of a New Network
by Shane Greenstein
Review
Networks: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
by Guido Caldarelli and Michele Catanzaro
Review
Making Embedded Systems: Design Patterns for Great Software
by Elecia White
Review
Cloudonomics: The Business Value of Cloud Computing
by Joe Weinman
Review

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