| In no particular order: Sunburst and Luminary: an Apollo Memoir
https://www.sunburstandluminary.com/SLhome.html The Brain Makers
https://www.amazon.com/Brain-Makers-HP-Newquist/dp/067230412... Strategic Computing: DARPA and the Quest for Machine Intelligence
https://www.amazon.com/Strategic-Computing-Machine-Intellige... The Soul of a New Machine
https://www.amazon.com/Soul-New-Machine/dp/B01FCTJCR0 Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
https://www.amazon.com/Hackers-Heroes-Computer-Revolution-An... Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet
https://www.amazon.com/Where-Wizards-Stay-Up-Late/dp/B00AQU7... Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn
http://worrydream.com/refs/Hamming-TheArtOfDoingScienceAndEn...
Not a dedicated history book, but Hamming talks a lot about personal experiences and observations UNIX: A History and a Memoir
https://www.amazon.com/UNIX-History-Memoir-Brian-Kernighan-e... Masters of Doom
https://www.amazon.com/Masters-Doom-Created-Transformed-Cult... linking to audiobook because it is read by Wil Wheaton :) Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World’s Most Wanted Hacker
https://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Wires-Adventures-Worlds-Wanted/... It might be just me, but I really enjoy reading biographies of people important to the science, for example here is one for John Tukey https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsbm.2003... |