On the mat with these two books. One, "Broad ๐ Band: The Untold story of the Women Who Made the Internet" by Claire L. Evans that looks back at the lives of historical figures who laid the foundation of the Internet. My favorite unsung shero, Jean E. Sammet, even gets a shout out ๐ฃ" ...there was a Hopper protรฉgรฉ (JES) that was instructed to write the new business language in fewer than three months...delivering findings for new common business oriented language, COBOL, in December 1959. That following January, the specs were printed." The Second, "The Master Algorithm: How the quest for the ultimate learning machine will remake our world" by Pedro Domingos I'm just starting today. But seems to be more forward in scope and content. I was fortunate to have computer science taught in high school that I attended. I used all my spare time coding or modifying games that were printed in computing magazine. The language was BASIC but I still find it helpful, if not essential in understanding where we go from here. If classmates would try to interrupt me, I would always respond that I was working on my Ultimate program. There is something about computer science that still warrants superlatives! ๐ป๐ฝ๐พ












