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Series
Monkeewrench volume 10
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Minneapolis detectives Leo Magozzi and Gino Rolseth join Grace MacBride and Monkeewrench to uncover a dark and ugly conspiracy that reaches deep into the safety of homes in this latest electrifying thriller from New York Times bestselling author P. J. Tracy. It's a bitter winter in Minnesota--too cold to kill. There hasn't been a murder for a month, but the lull quickly comes to an end for Detectives Leo Magozzi and Gino Rolseth, when they're called...
Author
Series
Monkeewrench volume 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a philanthropist is found dead under suspicious circumstances on the anniversary of his son's fatal overdose, Monkeewrench computer genius Grace MacBride assists the Minneapolis police to connect the case to a plot threatening hundreds of lives.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Reflections of a Carnegie Mellon computer science professor who lectured on "Really achieving your childhood dreams," shortly after having been diagnosed with terminal cancer. His advice concerned seizing the moment while living, rather than dying.
Author
Series
Monkeewrench volume 8
Language
English
Description
"The Monkeewrench crew returns to face the city of Minneapolis's worst nightmare--a rampant serial killer on the loose--in the electrifying new thriller. When Minneapolis homicide detectives Leo Magozzi and Gino Rolseth are called to a crime scene in a heavily wooded city park, everything about the setting is all too familiar. And when they discover a playing card on the victim's body, their worst fears are confirmed--there's a serial killer operating...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Description
"The moving memoir of a girl coming of age as an immigrant in America who finds her calling as a scientist at the forefront of the AI/Machine Learning revolution. Fei-Fei Li is known to the world as the creator of ImageNet, a key catalyst of modern artificial intelligence (AI). But her career in science was improbable from the start. Moving from China's middle class to American poverty, her family navigated the hardships of immigrant life while struggling...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Thes revealing story of the people who created the computer and the Internet. It is destined to be the standard history of the digital revolution and an indispensable guide to how innovation really happens. What were the talents that allowed certain inventors and entrepreneurs to turn their visionary ideas into disruptive realities? What led to their creative leaps? Why did some succeed and others fail? In his masterly saga, Isaacson begins with Ada...
Series
Publisher
distributed by Warner Home video
Pub. Date
2009, c1974
Language
English
Description
Computer scientist Harry Benson undergoes experimental brain surgery to end his potentially dangerous seizures. Shortly after his operation, however, he flees the hospital and escapes to the apartment of his girlfriend. The experiment has backfired and the seizures are returning with a terminal vengeance.
Author
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Not so long ago, math problems had to be solved with pencil and paper, mail delivered by postman, and files were stored in paper folders and metal cabinets. But three women, Betty Snyder, Jean Jennings, and Kay McNulty knew there could be a better way. During World War II, people hoped ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer), one of the earliest computers, could help with the war effort. With little guidance, no instructions, and barely...
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
True story of six women who programmed the ENIAC computer as part of a secret WWII mission. They learned to program the computer without any software, instructions or tools (none existed.). --
The story of Jean Jennings, Kay McNulty, Frances Bilas, Ruth Lichterman, Betty Snyder, and Marlyn Wescoff, who were chosen to work on the ENIAC computer.
10) The sixth idea
Author
Series
Monkeewrench volume 7
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"The Monkeewrench crew returns in a twisty, heart-stopping new thriller. The peaceful Christmas season in Minneapolis is shattered when two friends, Chuck Spencer and Wally Luntz, scheduled to meet in person for the first time, are murdered on the same night, two hours and several miles apart, dramatically concluding winter vacation for homicide detectives Leo Magozzi and Gino Rolseth. An hour north of Minneapolis, Lydia Ascher comes home to find...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
An exhilarating crossover between memoir and argument demonstrating how computers and algorithms shape our understanding of the world and who we are. As we engineer ever-more intricate algorithms to translate our experiences and narrow the gap that divides us from the machine, we willingly rub out our nuances and our idiosyncrasies--precisely that which makes us human. Bitwise is David Auerbach's thoughtful ode to the computer codes and languages...
Author
Publisher
Currency
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"An unforgettable story of four women who came to California to try to make it in a world stacked against them. Through grit and ingenuity, the women became stars in cutthroat, high-stakes, male dominated Silicon Valley and helped build some of the most important companies of our day. They were written out of history - until now. In Alpha Girls, award-winning journalist Julian Guthrie takes readers behind the closed doors of venture capital, an industry...
Author
Series
Women of power volume 7
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"These 15 women are coders and engineers who have faced impossible problems and found solutions. They are each doing amazing work in technical fields while facing unique challenges that are not equally faced by men"--
"When engineers are faced with an impossible problem, they don’t quit. They look for solutions. These 15 women are coders and engineers who have faced impossible problems and found solutions. They are each doing amazing work in technical...
Author
Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Traces the author's rise from a survivor of China's Cultural Revolution to an "Inc. Magazine" Entrepreneur of the Year and proud U.S. citizen, describing the circumstances that led to her exile and the visionary leadership style that enabled her remarkable career.
Author
Publisher
Portfolio/ Penguin
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
"The history of technology you probably know is one of men and machines, garages and riches, alpha nerds and brogrammers. But the little-known fact is that female visionaries have always been at the vanguard of technology and innovation--they've just been erased from the story. Until now. Women are not ancillary to the history of technology; they turn up at the very beginning of every important wave. But they've often been hidden in plain sight,...
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