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If you're in SF in march and interested in Max/MSP, my conf/music festival, Algorithmic Art Assembly, has a workshop on Creating Digital Instruments with Max/MSP - https://aaassembly.org/workshops/ (conf also features Miller Puckette, Curtis Roads and many more!)

All good recs so far. Here's a few I haven't seen mentioned yet -

Computing in the Middle Ages: A View From the Trenches 1955-1983 - Severo Ornstein

Early British Computers - Simon Lavington

Geeks Bearing Gifts - Ted Nelson (and also Computer Lib/Dream Machines)

more recently - UNIX: A History and a Memoir by Brian Kernighan

Here's a couple I'd recommend from AAAssembly -

Kindohm - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiEq_h5UQJM Renick Bell - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pks_BSqHB0 Algobabez - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GTN8ELL75g Sebastian Camens - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zu4dHW04W9Y

Charlie Roberts live at Algorithmic Art Assembly - super good stuff! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnqS8hQVhXA&t=7s

currently working my way through this book, and implementing it in C++ - very good book! I'm really enjoying it.

Brian Michael Bendis already did - https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/TheUnitedSt...

Olivia Jack will be presenting a talk on Hydra and doing live coded visuals at https://aaassembly.org/ in San Francisco, March 22nd

Yeah, the Friday workshop is women and non-binary only. TidalCycles, the Saturday workshop, actually uses SuperCollider as the sound synthesis engine however.

the Juan Atkins album from that piece is still sounding super fresh - https://randsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/sonic-sunset

great, thanks! I've been using Will Pirkle's books, which are really good, to learn how to build a synth and make audio effects (http://www.willpirkle.com/). Nice to have a second resource to compare against.

They have a channel here, looks like they're still in the process of uploading the talks - https://www.youtube.com/user/MeetingCPP/videos

I love the Ted Nelson "Computers For Cynics" series - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdnGPQaICjk

He is kinda awesome in Herzog's recent 'Lo and Behold' too.

Howard Rheingold's 'Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology' - covers George Boole, Charles Babbage, Alan Turing, John Von Neumann

Jon Gernter's 'The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation' - very cool story about the formation of Bell Labs and covers the Transistor, Satellite comms, the laser, and a ton of other stuff up till, but not disappointingly not including Unix.

John Markoff's 'What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry' - what is says!

Ted Nelson's 'Geeks Bearing Gifts' (or any of his YouTube Computers For Cynics videos) - awesome, curmudgeonly alternative (but accurate) version of computer history.

Michael A. Hiltzik's 'Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age' - as someone else mentioned, really great history