Ebook: Hackers: heroes of the computer revolution:
Author: Levy Steven
- Tags: Artificial intelligence, Research, Computer engineering, Computer hackers, Computer programming, Geeks (Computer enthusiasts), Computer science, Social Science
- Year: 2010
- Publisher: O'Reilly Media
- City: Sebastopol
- Edition: 25th Anniversary Edition
- Language: English
- epub
This 25th anniversary edition of Steven Levy's classic book traces the exploits of the computer revolution's original hackers -- those brilliant and eccentric nerds from the late 1950s through the early '80s who took risks, bent the rules, and pushed the world in a radical new direction. With updated material from noteworthy hackers such as Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Richard Stallman, and Steve Wozniak, Hackers is Read more...
Abstract: This 25th anniversary edition of Steven Levy's classic book traces the exploits of the computer revolution's original hackers -- those brilliant and eccentric nerds from the late 1950s through the early '80s who took risks, bent the rules, and pushed the world in a radical new direction. With updated material from noteworthy hackers such as Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Richard Stallman, and Steve Wozniak, Hackers is a fascinating story that begins in early computer research labs and leads to the first home computers. Levy profiles the imaginative brainiacs who found clever and unorthodox soluti