CIRCULATING BOOKS:

Butcher, Lee. Accidental Millionaire: The Rise and Fall of Steve Jobs at Apple Computer. New York: Paragon House, 1988.

• The personality and management style of Steve Jobs clashed with the newly appointed President of Apple Computer, John Scully, which ultimately led to his dismissal from the company Jobs had founded. 

Carlton, Jim. Apple: The Inside Story of Intrigue, Egomania, and Business Blunders. 
New York: Times Business/Random House, 1997.

• Reports of Apples competition with Microsoft, the business mistakes made under the the direction of Gil Amelio, the new CEO, and the $150 million dollar loss in one year. 

Cohen, I. Bernard. Howard Aiken: Portrait of a Computer Pioneer. Cambridge, MA: 
MIT Press, 1999.

• Biography of the early 20th century computer pioneer whose earliest inventor of the Mark I calculator started the computer revolution.

Cohen, I. Bernard and Gregory W. Welch. Howard Aiken and the Computer. 
Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1999.

• The story of the early founder of the computer age; the development of the Mark I calculator and the use of computers in language translation.

Cringely, Robert X. Accidental Empires. Reading, Mass: Addison-Wesley Publishing
Company, 1992.

• A look at the great software companies located in what is referred to as Silicon Valley California.

Cusumano, Michael A. Microsoft Secrets: How the World's Most Powerful Software 
Company Creates Technology, Shapes Markets, and Manages People. New York:
Free Press, 1995.

• This expose is based on interviews taken from 38 employees from 1993 to 1994 ranging from executives to the support staff. Cofounded in 1975 by Bill Gates, the company has established 7 steps to success which include: 1) organizing and managing the company 2) managing creative people and technical skills 3) competing with products and standards 4) defining products and development processes 5) developing and shipping products 6) building a learning organization 7) attack the future.

Gates, Bill. The Road Ahead. New York: Viking, 1995.

• The Microsoft empire and the status of the computer industry in the United States.

Hall, Mark and John Barry. Sunburst: The Ascent of Sun Microsystems. Chicago: 
Contemporary Books, 1990.

• History of Sun Microsystems, the California company whose spirit of excellence led them to become a Fortune 500 company.

Jackson, Jim. Inside Intel: Andy Grove and the Rise of the World's Most Powerful Chip Company. New York: Dutton, 1997.

• Founded in 1968 and the birthplace of the Pentium microprocessor.

Kawasaki, Guy. The MacIntosh Way. Glenview, Illinois, 1990.

• The author is a former employee of Apple Computer so this book is an apt guide to how the once-successful company was run. It is divided into three parts which Include 1) Introduction to the MacIntosh Way covers the history of the company 2) Doing the right thing covers products, marketing, customer support and the business environment. 3) Doing things right covers the details of running a business such as user groups, trade shows, public relations, presentations, competition.

Kurtzig, Sandra L. CEO: Building a $400 Million Company from the Ground Up. 
New York: Norton, 1991.

• During the 1970s Sandra Kurtzig, a housewife and mother, becomes a business executive as she founded her own company. She serves as an inspiration to future women Business leaders.

Mills, Daniel Quinn. The IBM Lesson: The Profitable Art of Full Employment. New York: Times Books, 1988.

• This book is comprised from interviews from IBM insiders. Discusses the policy of retaining employees and creating profits for the business.

Moody, Fred. I Sing the Body Electronic: A Year with Microsoft on the Multimedia Frontier. New York: Viking, 1995.

• Inside scoop from the Microsoft design and development team of the Multimedia Publishing division.

Moody, Glyn. The Rebel Code: The Inside Story of Linux and the Open Source
Revolution. Cambridge, Mass: Perseus Pub. 2001.

• Profile of Linus Torvald of Finland, the architect of the Linux operating system.

Moritz, Michael. The Little Kingdom: The Private Story of Apple Computer. 

• Traces the beginnings of the Computer company that was started by Steven Jobs and Stephen Wozniak, two young college dropouts from California.

Pugh, Emerson W. Building IBM: Shaping an Industry and Its Technology. 
Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1995.

• The author was an employee of IBM for 35 years, so he writes with a firsthand knowledge of the company that dominated the computer industry.

Shasha, Dennis Elliott. Out of Their Minds: The Lives and Discoveries of 15 Great 
Computer Scientists. New York: Copernicus, 1995.

• Based on personal interviews, this book is divided into four sections including 1) Linguists 2) Algorithmists 3) Architects 4) Sculptors of machine intelligence

Wang, An. Lessons: An Autobiography. Reading, Mass: Addison-Wesley, 1986.

• Six years after coming to the United States, Wang founded the company that once employed over 30,000 employees.

Watson, Thomas J. Jr. Father, Son, & Co: My Life at IBM and Beyond. New York: 
Bantam, 1990.

• The story of Thomas Watson, the founder of IBM and his son, Peter Petre, who took over the position as head of IBM in 1956.

Young, Jeffrey S. Steve Jobs: The Journey is the Reward. New York: Lynx Books, 1988.

• Biography of Steve Jobs and the early history of Apple Computer.

   

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