Books That May Be Selected For the Final Project

Non-Fiction

Mathematical, Logical, Philosophical

Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter.  Pulitzer Prize winning book. 

The Mind's I : Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul by Douglas R. Hofstadter.

Consciousness Explained by Daniel C. Dennett

Computers and the Sciences

Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick (Taken by Engle)

Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything by James Gleick. (Taken  by Solis)

The Dreams of Reason: The Computer and the Rise of the Sciences of Complexity by Heinz R. Pagels

Nexus: Small Worlds and the Groundbreaking Science of Networks by Mark Buchanan

Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software by Steven Johnson

Computers and Society

The Psychology of the Internet by Patricia Wallace (Taken by Casey)

Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide by Henry Jenkins

Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace by Janet H. Murray

How We Became Posthuman : Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics by N. Katherine Hayles

Citizen Cyborg: Why Democratic Societies Must Respond to the Redesigned Human of the Future by James Hughes

Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age by Paul Graham (Taken by Beaty)

Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution by Steven Levy (Taken by Rose)

The Hacker Ethic by Pekka Himanen and Manuel Castells (Taken by Ballew)

Privacy and Security

The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security by Kevin D. Mitnick. (Taken by Lynch)

Secrets and Lies : Digital Security in a Networked World by Bruce Schneier.  (Taken by Lauf)

The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage by Cliff Stoll. (Taken by Edwards)

Futurism

The Next Fifty Years : Science in the First Half of the Twenty-first Century edited by John Brockman. (Taken by Beal)

Tomorrow Now : Envisioning the Next Fifty Years by Bruce Sterling. (Taken by Brodosi)

The Future Does Not Compute by Steve Talbott

Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing by Adam Greenfield. (Taken by Enderline)

Artificial Intelligence

The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence by Ray Kurzweil.

Robot: Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind by Hans Moravec.

Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us by Rodney Brooks

On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins

Society Of Mind by Marvin Minsky

The Cyborg Handbook by Chris Hables Gray (Taken by King)

The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Human Mind by Marvin Minsky (Taken by Torres)

Computers, Graphics and Art

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward R. Tufte (Taken by Pullum)

Information Dashboard Design: The Effective Visual Communication of Data by Stephen Few. (Taken by Cruse)

Fiction

Feed  by M. T. Anderson

Synners by Pat Cadigan (Taken by Brown)

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick.  (Taken by Thomas)

Pattern Recognition by William Gibson.

Virtual Light by William Gibson.

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson.  (Taken  by Porter and Staebell)