Faculty Book Club

With several of the CS faculty (and other interested faculty members elsewhere on campus), I have established a reading club to discuss controversial books somewhat related to computing technology and the future of the field. This is the list of books we have read so far:

• George Gilder, Life After Television, Norton, New York, 1992.
• Robert Frank and Philip Cook, The Winner Take All Society, Free Press, New York, 1995.
• Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age, Bantam, New York, 1995.
• John Horgan, The End of Science: Facing the Limits of Knowledge in the Twilight of the Scientific Age, Addison Wesley, Reading, MA, 1996.
• Edward Tenner, Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences, Knopf, New York, 1996.
• Richard Dawkins, Climbing Mount Improbable, Norton and Company, New York, 1996.
• Paul Krugman, Pop Internationalism, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1996.
• Annalee Saxenian, Regional Advantage, Harvard Press, 1994.
• Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, Norton, New York, 1997.
• G. Pascal Zachary, Endless Frontier: Vannever Bush, Engineer of the American Century, Free Press, New York, 1997.
• Manuel Castells, The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture, Vol. 1: The Rise of the Network Society (1996), Vol. 2: The Power of Identity (1997), Vol. 3: The End of the Millinneum (1998), Blackwell Publishers, Malden, MA.
• Simon Mawer, Mendel's Dwarf (1998), Harmony Books.
• Donald Norman, The Invisible Computer: Why Good Products Can Fail, the Personal Computer Is So Complex and Information Appliances Are the Solution (1998), MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
• Carl Shapiro, Hal Varian, Carol Shapiro, Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the New Economy, Harvard Business School Press, Cambridge, MA, 1998.
• Tom Standage, The Victorian Internet, Walker and Company, New York, 1998.
• C. P. Snow, The Search, Scriber and Sons, New York, 1958.
• John Maynard Smith, Eors Szathmary, The Origins of Life, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1999.
• Christos Papadimitriou, Turing, to be published.
• Michael Frayn, Copenhagen, 1998.
• Lawrence Lessig, Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, Basic Books, New York, 1999.
• Antonio Damasio, The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness, Harcourt, Orlando, FL, 1999.