Computer: A History of the Information Machine (by Martin Campbell-Kellly and William Aspray)
*The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution (*by Walter Isaacson)
*Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age (*by Michael A. Hiltzik)
Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World’s First Modern Computer (by Kathy Kleiman)
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering (by Fred Brooks, leader of the IBM System/360 software project)
The Innovator’s Dilemma (by Clayton Christensen)