Presentation topics and reading list

• Unix Philosophy
  1. Life with Unix: A Guide for Everyone, Libes & Ressler, prentice hall, 1989 (Jacy Li)
  2. The Unix Philosophy, Gancarz, Digital Press, 1994 (Melanie Shafer)
  3. A Quarter Century of Unix, Salus, Addison-Wesley, 1994 (Daisy Sheng)
• History of Internet
1. Casting the Net: From ARPANET to INTERNET and Beyond, Salus, Addison-Wesley, 1995 (Peiying Wen)
2. Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet, Hafner, Simon & Schuster, 1998 (Emily Levine)
3. Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age, Hiltzik, 2000
• Unix and Hacker Culture
  1. The Jargon File (appendices and skim the rest) http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/pt03.html (Chantal Taylor)
  2. Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, Levy, Penguin Putnam, 2001
  3. The Masters of Deception: The Gang that Ruled Cyberspace, Harper Perennial, 1996 (Julia Yu and Cara Takemoto)
  4. Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier, Simon and Shuster, 1991 (Subin Park)
  5. The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage, Stoll, 2005 (Sarah Fielder)
  6. Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker, Mitnick, Wozniak and Simon, 2011(Sofia Berlin)
• BSD History
1. BSD Unix: Power to the People, from the Code, Andrew Leonard, 2000
   http://archive.salon.com/tech/fsp/2000/05/16/chapter_2_part_one/print.html (Francine Wei)
• Linux History
1. Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary, Linus Torvalds, Harper Business, 2001 (Natalie Kato)
• Open Source Software Movement
1. The Cathedral and the Bazaar, Raymond, O'Reilly, 2001 (Rachel Li)
2. Open Source: The Unauthorized White Papers, Rosenberg, Hungry Minds, 2000 (Alex Villalta)
3. Open Source: Voices from the Open Source Revolution, Dibona, O'Reilly, 1999
4. Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software,Williams, O'Reilly, 2002 (Caitlyn Clabaugh)
5. Rebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution, Moody, Persus, 2002(Kathryn Rath)
6. The Success of Open Source, Weber, Harvard University Press, 2004
   
   
   
   

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