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Summary: "After the end of World War II, top-secret research continued across the United States as engineers and programmers rushed to complete their confidential assignments. Among them were six pioneering women, tasked with figuring out how to program the world's first general-purpose, programmable, all-electronic computer - a machine built to calculate a single ballistic trajectory in twenty seconds...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing, Hachette Book Group 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 004.092 KLEGibson, Karen Bush
Summary: "Real-world technology projects pair up with ... biographies of female computer scientists to make a ... book that will have kids ages 8 to 11 eager to develop their own apps"--Publisher marketing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nomad Press 2019
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Summary: "Ada Lovelace turned her powerful imagination into a vision of the future, predicting the impact of computers on human life. Lovelace had a unique education and embraced mathematics. She became one of the biggest believers in engineer Charles Babbage's ideas for calculation machines. This graphic biography shows how Lovelace helped spread awareness of what an early computer could do and how she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Universe 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC BAYBailey, R. J.
Summary: "Carefully leveled text and vibrant photographs introduce early readers to the work software engineers do and the preparation necessary for a computer science career. Includes infographics, an activity, glossary, and index"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pogo 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 005.1092 BAIWallmark, Laurie
Summary: Offers an illustrated telling of the story of Ada Byron Lovelace, from her early creative fascination with mathematics and science and her devastating bout with measles, to the ground-breaking algorithm she wrote for Charles Babbage's analytical engine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Creston Books 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 LOVUllman, Ellen
Summary: "The never-more-necessary return of one of our most vital and eloquent voices on technology and culture, the author of the seminal Close to the Machine. The last twenty years have brought us the rise of the internet, the development of artificial intelligence, the ubiquity of once unimaginably powerful computers, and the thorough transformation of our economy and society. Through it all, Ellen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD, Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ULLMAN, ELLEN ULLSaujani, Reshma
Summary: Introduces the relevance of coding and shares down-to-earth explanations about coding principles and real-life stories of women programmers who work at such places as Pixar and NASA.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 005.102 SAUPreston, Douglas J.
Summary: NASA is designing a probe-raft-which will be dropped into the Kraken Mare, the largest sea on Saturn's great moon Titan. There, it will embark on a journey of exploration. A NASA team led by Melissa Shepherd has developed "Dorothy," a powerful, self-modifying AI software program to operate the raft autonomously. As the probe is being tested an explosion kills seven scientists. The AI program in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PREHolt, Nathalia
Summary: In the 1940s, when the newly minted Jet Propulsion Laboratory needed quick-thinking mathematicians, it recruited an elite group of young women -- known as human computers -- who, with only pencil, paper, and brain power, helped bring about America's first ballistic missiles. But their hearts lay in the dream of space exploration, and when JPL became part of NASA, the computers helped send the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Sci Space HoltSaujani, Reshma.
Summary: Part how-to, part girl-empowerment, and all fun, from the leader of the movement championed by Sheryl Sandberg, Jack Dorsey, and other giants of tech. Since 2012, the organization Girls Who Code has taught computing skills to and inspired over 10,000 girls across America. Now its founder, Reshma Saujani, wants to inspire you to be a girl who codes! With down-to-earth explanations of coding...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD 005.1 SAUDolan, Hannah
Summary: Profiles four women who have been integral to NASA's space program, helping to develop the Hubble Space Telescope, create computer code to send spacecraft to the moon, and work onboard the space shuttle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2018
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2 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE DOLCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR Purple Dolan 2018Robbins, Dean
Summary: Introduces the woman mathematician whose childhood love of numbers led to her prestigious education and contributions at NASA while explaining how her handwritten codes proved essential throughout numerous space missions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HAMSummary: Yes, I Am - The Ric Weiland Story chronicles the LGBTQ pioneer & unknown founder of Microsoft. With his newfound wealth, he turned to philanthropy. During his life, he donated more than $200m to fund more than 60 non-profit organizations. His efforts still have a massive impact today. However, as his wealth grew, Ric seemed to slip further into self-doubt, depression, and a kind of impostor...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC YESDave, Laura
Summary: A gripping mystery about a woman who thinks she's found the love of her life until he disappears. Before Owen Michaels disappears, he smuggles a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to whom the note refers--Owen's sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey. Bailey, who lost her mother tragically as a child. Bailey, who wants...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2021
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DAVCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DAVSanchez Vegara, Ma Isabel (Mar©Ưa Isabel)
Summary: Presents information about Ada Lovelace, from her childhood in England and her studies in mathematics to her development of the first computer programming language.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lincoln Children's Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 LOVCalkhoven, Laurie
Summary: 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.). --
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J STEM CalkhovenThompson, Clive
Summary: "From acclaimed tech writer Clive Thompson, a brilliant and immersive anthropological reckoning with the most powerful tribe in the world today, computer programmers - where they come from, how they think, what makes for greatness in their world, and whatshould give us pause"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 005.1 THOPatterson, James
Summary: "Recruited into the FBI when her unorthodox programming skills get her kicked out of MIT, a computer genius tracks a killer who has been targeting young women through a sophisticated messaging app."-- Angela Hoot's unorthodox programming skills get her kicked out of MIT's graduate school-- and into the FBI's cyber-forensics unit as an intern. There's a messaging app with sophisticated tracking...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PATCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Patterson 2020Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M PATPatterson, James
Summary: "Recruited into the FBI when her unorthodox programming skills get her kicked out of MIT, a computer genius tracks a killer who has been targeting young women through a sophisticated messaging app."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Patterson 2020Cambias, James L.
Summary: "In the early 2020s, two young, genius computer hackers, Elizabeth Santiago and David Schwartz, meet at MIT, where Schwartz is sneaking into classes, and have a brief affair. David is amoral and out for himself, and soon disappears. Elizabeth dreams of technology and space travel and takes a military job after graduating. Nearly ten years later, David is setting himself to become a billionaire...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2015
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Andrews, Donna.
Summary: When her human colleague, Ray Santiago, is found murdered, Turing Hopper, an artificial intelligence personality, joins her human assistants, Maude and Tim, on a search for the killer and turns up dark secrets from Ray's past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANDSuarez, Daniel
Summary: Matthew Sobol era un legendario diseñador de juegos de ordenador. Su prematura muerte deja desconsolados a miles de aficionados en todo el mundo. Pero esa muerte, además, pone en acción a un daemon, un programa cibernético autónomo, que inicia una cadena de acontecimientos que amenazan con acabar con el mundo interconectado que nos rodea. Ahora Sobol se ha ido a la tumba con sus secretos, y...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Umbriel 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.3 FICTION SUAStanley, Diane
Summary: "A fascinating look at Ada Lovelace, the pioneering computer programmer and the daughter of the poet Lord Byron." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 LOVCornwell, Patricia Daniels.
Summary: Massachusetts Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta has just returned from working one of the worst mass murders in U.S. history when she's awakened at an early hour by Detective Pete Marino. A body, oddly draped in an unusual cloth, has just been discovered inside the sheltered gates of MIT and it's suspected the identity is that of missing computer engineer Gail Shipton, last seen the night...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday, Penguin Group 2013