summer reading list

from jrc

• Creation: Life and How to Make It by Steve Grand, who wrote the
  Creatures computer game. It's about artificial life (and how to make
  it).
  
• The Invisible Future edited by Peter Denning - a collection of essays by
  some of the classics in IT.
  
• Blondie24 - about the creation of a program that teaches itself to play
  checkers (because it sounded like fun)
  
• How to be a librarian ( a slim volume about challenges in the field)
  

Lawrence Lessig, Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace

Lawrence Lessing, The Future of Ideas

John Seely Brown, The Social Life of Information

Douglas Thomas, Hacker Culture (March 2002)

Dan Verton, The Hacker Diaries (April 2002)