Computer Science

"You Are Not Expected to Understand This": How 26 Lines of Code Changed the World Edited by Torie Bosch

Leading technologists, historians, and journalists reveal the stories behind the computer coding that touches all aspects of life—for better or worse

Data Driven: Truckers, Technology, and the New Workplace Surveillance Karen Levy

A behind-the-scenes look at how digital surveillance is affecting the trucking way of life

Virtual You: How Building Your Digital Twin Will Revolutionize Medicine and Change Your Life Peter Coveney and Roger Highfield

The visionary science behind the digital human twins that will enhance our health and our future

Algorithms for the People: Democracy in the Age of AI Josh Simons

How to put democracy at the heart of AI governance

Quantitative Social Science: An Introduction in tidyverse Kosuke Imai and Nora Webb Williams

A tidyverse edition of the acclaimed textbook on data analysis and statistics for the social sciences and allied fields

Graph Theory in America: The First Hundred Years Robin Wilson, John J. Watkins, and David J. Parks

How a new mathematical field grew and matured in America

Robot Ecology: Constraint-Based Design for Long-Duration Autonomy Magnus Egerstedt

A revolutionary new framework that draws on insights from ecology for the design and analysis of long-duration robots

Text as Data: A New Framework for Machine Learning and the Social Sciences Justin Grimmer, Margaret E. Roberts, and Brandon M. Stewart

A guide for using computational text analysis to learn about the social world

The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is: A History, a Philosophy, a Warning Justin Smith-Ruiu

An original deep history of the internet that tells the story of the centuries-old utopian dreams behind it—and explains why they have died today

The Essence of Software: Why Concepts Matter for Great Design Daniel Jackson

A revolutionary concept-based approach to thinking about, designing, and interacting with software

Breaking the Social Media Prism: How to Make Our Platforms Less Polarizing Chris Bail

A revealing look at how user behavior is powering deep social divisions online—and how we might yet defeat political tribalism on social media

Bedeviled: A Shadow History of Demons in Science Jimena Canales

How scientists through the ages have conducted thought experiments using imaginary entities—demons—to test the laws of nature and push the frontiers of what is possible

The Self-Assembling Brain: How Neural Networks Grow Smarter Peter Robin Hiesinger

What neurobiology and artificial intelligence tell us about how the brain builds itself

Behind Deep Blue: Building the Computer That Defeated the World Chess Champion Feng-hsiung Hsu

The riveting quest to construct the machine that would take on the world’s greatest human chess player—told by the man who built it

Dark Data: Why What You Don’t Know Matters David J. Hand

A practical guide to making good decisions in a world of missing data

Metrics at Work: Journalism and the Contested Meaning of Algorithms Angèle Christin

The starkly different ways that American and French online news companies respond to audience analytics and what this means for the future of news

Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future: The Ingenious Ideas That Drive Today's Computers John MacCormick

Nine revolutionary algorithms that power our computers and smartphones

Patterns, Predictions, and Actions: Foundations of Machine Learning Moritz Hardt and Benjamin Recht

An authoritative, up-to-date graduate textbook on machine learning that highlights its historical context and societal impacts

Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies: A Comprehensive Introduction Arvind Narayanan, Joseph Bonneau, Edward Felten, Andrew Miller, and Steven Goldfeder

An authoritative introduction to the exciting new technologies of digital money

Understanding the Digital World: What You Need to Know about Computers, the Internet, Privacy, and Security, Second Edition Brian W. Kernighan

A brand-new edition of the popular introductory textbook that explores how computer hardware, software, and networks work

Quantitative Social Science: An Introduction in tidyverse Kosuke Imai and Nora Webb Williams

A tidyverse edition of the acclaimed textbook on data analysis and statistics for the social sciences and allied fields

What Can Be Computed?: A Practical Guide to the Theory of Computation John MacCormick

An accessible and rigorous textbook for introducing undergraduates to computer science theory