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"An exhilarating tour of humanity's next great technological achievement—quantum computing—which may eventually illuminate the deepest mysteries of science and solve some of humanity's biggest problems, like global warming, world hunger, and incurable disease, by the bestselling author of The God Equation. The runaway success of the microchip processor may be reaching its end. Running up against the physical constraints of smaller and smaller...
2) WIRED
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The Wired mission is to tell the world something they've never heard before in a way they've never seen before. It's about turning new ideas into everyday reality. It's about seeding our community of influencers with the ideas that will shape and transform our collective future. Wired readers want to know how technology is changing the world, and they're interested in big, relevant ideas, even if those ideas challenge their
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 14
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In the year 2000, computers are the new superpowers. Those who control them control the world. To enforce the Net Laws, Congress creates the ultimate computer security agency within the FBI: the Net Force.
Reeling from a shattered personal life, Net Force Commander Alex Michaels is informed that top secret information from a joint Air Force—Navy venture has been accessed and downloaded. The research involves an atmospheric weapon with the capability...
Reeling from a shattered personal life, Net Force Commander Alex Michaels is informed that top secret information from a joint Air Force—Navy venture has been accessed and downloaded. The research involves an atmospheric weapon with the capability...
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Artemis Fowl series volume 3
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IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
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Discovering a way to build a super-computer using stolen fairy technology, young criminal mastermind Artemis sets out to blackmail a Chicago businessman but runs into a trap that leaves Butler mortally injured.
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Artemis Fowl series volume 4
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IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
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Criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl has no memory of the fairy people and his dangerous enemy, Opal Koboi escapes from jail and is planning revenge.
While preparing to steal a famous Impressionist painting from a German bank, Artemis Fowl has no idea that Opal Koboi has escaped from jail, leaving only Captain Holly Short of the LEPrechon fairy police to save Artemis before Opal seeks revenge on him.
After his last run-in with the fairies, Artemis Fowl's...
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Artemis Fowl series volume 5
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IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
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When demons begin appearing on Earth unpredictably, foreshadowing a cataclysmic breakdown of their magic, Artemis and his friends face a new foe--a twelve-year-old girl whose intellect just might match Artemis's own--as they try to prevent catastrophe.
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Space Odyssey series volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 12
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"Allegory about humanity's exploration of the universe, and the universe's reaction to humanity."
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Melville House
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Over 150 years after her death, a widely-used scientific computer program was named “Ada,” after Ada Lovelace, the only legitimate daughter of the eighteenth century’s version of a rock star, Lord Byron. Why? Because, after computer pioneers such as Alan Turing began to rediscover her, it slowly became apparent that she had been a key but overlooked figure in the invention of the computer. In Ada Lovelace, James Essinger makes the case...
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