Thread by @prathyvsh

Bumping into some little known but cool computer history books lately. Cataloguing them here for posterity hoping someone would find the list valuable:

Talking Nets: An Oral History of Neural Networks (1998)
Edward Rosenfeld and James Anderson

Interviews with famous scientists at the intersection of neuroscience and computation who came together to define the field of neural networks and A.I.

Buy: amzn.to/2Dgn5bZ

Indiscrete Thoughts (1996)
Gian-Carlo Rota

Found this one during my Lambda Calculus research. Recollections of Gian-Carlo Rota on luminaries in science and technology he worked with during 1950-1990 written in his idiosyncratic style.

Buy: amzn.to/2Oj45jh

Modern History of Computing (1998)
Paul Ceruzzi

Think this is a neat one. A comprehensive overview of computing from the first electronic computer (1940s) to the dotcom crash (2000s). It also mentions lesser known ones like:

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Buy: amzn.to/37AMgDU

The First Computers — History and Architectures (2000)
Raul Rojas and Ulf Hashagen

A collection of articles on architectures of the very first computers.

Buy: amzn.to/2R3hnlC

Histories of Computing (2011)
Michael Sean Mahoney, Thomas Haigh

The book is a collection of essays by Mahoney and looks at computing from distinct perspectives, hence the "Histories" part in the title.

Buy: amzn.to/2OVAr3N