17 janeiro 2008

Livros grátis

The Future of Ideas is now Free: After a productive and valuable conversation with my publisher, Random House, they've agreed to permit The Future of Ideas to be licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license.


My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World: Part memoir and part ethnography, My Tiny Life is about the social life of the online, text-based virtual world LambdaMOO and my own brief encounter with it in the early '90s. Andrew Leonard, in Salon, called it “the best book yet on the meaning of online life.”


ACM Classic Books Series: This list of classic books is the result of a poll ACM conducted where members named their favorite computer science books.We plan to make the full text available online to members as we obtain permissions from authors to display each book.
[Desde "The computer and the brain" (John von Neumann, 1958) a "201 principles of software development" (Alan M. Davis, 1995)]