ENIAC
by Scott McCartney | 
Where Wizards Stay Up Late
by Katie Hafner | 
Turing's Cathedral
by George Dyson | 
The Innovators
by Walter Isaacson |
Jacquard's Web
by James Essinger |
Nerds 2.0.1
by Stephen Segaller |
Fire in the Valley
by Paul Freiberger |
Geeks Bearing Gifts
by Ted Nelson |
A History of Modern Computing
by Paul E. Ceruzzi |
Computer
by Martin Campbell-Kelly | 
Dealers of Lightning
by Michael Hiltzik |
Engines of the Mind
by Joel N. Shurkin | 
Hackers
by Steven Levy | 
What the Dormouse Said
by John Markoff | 
The Soul of a New Machine
by Tracy Kidder | 
Complexity
by M. Mitchell Waldrop | 
In The Plex
by Steven Levy |
Google It
by Anna Crowley Redding | 
Edison
by Edmund Morris | 
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot |
A study of the evolution of the modern computer profiles the work of MIT psychologist J. C. R. Licklider, whose visionary dream of a human-computer symbiosis transformed the course of modern science and led to the development of the personal computer. Reprint.