Hacking: The Art of Exploitation, 2nd Edition (Jon Erickson, No Starch Press, 2008) is an intense, thorough and extremely well written book that can take you from basic hacking concepts to building ...

Experimenting with algorithms, she began to employ the principles of computation in her work even before she gained access to an actual computer. “Vera Molnar,” one admirer said, “is one of the very ...

In 1979, two M.I.T. computer-science alumni and a Harvard Business School graduate launched a new piece of computer software for the Apple II machine, an early home computer. Called VisiCalc, short ...