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• AI for Everyone? Critical Perspectives (London: University of Westminster Press, c2021), ed. by Pieter Verdegem (multiple formats with commentary at University of Westminster Press)
• An Introduction to Cybernetics (London: Chapman and Hall, 1957), by W. Ross Ashby (PDF with commentary at Principia Cybernetica Web)
• Cybernetics: or, Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine (first edition; New York: J. Wiley and Sons, c1948), by Norbert Wiener (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Phenomenon of Science (1977), by V. F. Turchin, trans. by Brand Frentz (illustrated HTML with commentary at Principia Cybernetica Web)

• Cyberia: Life in the Trenches of Hyperspace (HarperSanFrancisco, 1994), by Douglas Rushkoff (HTML at cyberpunk.ru)

• Software Engineering Techniques: Report of a Conference Sponsored by the NATO Science Committee, Rome, Italy, 27th to 31st October 1969 (originally published 1970), ed. by J. N. Buxton and Brian Randell (PDF in the UK)
• Software Engineering: Report of a Conference Sponsored by the NATO Science Committee, Garmisch, Germany, 7th to 11th October 1968 (originally published 1969), ed. by Peter Naur and Brian Randell (PDF in the UK)

• A State Connected: Michigan Libraries and the Public Interest in the Information Superhighway (Lansing, MI: Michigan Library Association, 1997), ed. by Joseph J. Mika (page images at HathiTrust)

• Natural Computing and Beyond (proceedings of tsunami-disrupted Winter School Hakodate 2011, and 6th International Workshop on Natural Computing; c2013), ed. by Yasuhiro Suzuki and Toshiyuki Nakagaki (PDF files with commentary at SpringerLink)

• Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems III, ed. by Dennis R. Crabtree, R. J. Hanisch, and Jeannette V. Barnes (HTML in Canada)

• Managing Microcomputers in Large Organizations, by National Research Council Board on Telecommunications and Computer Applications (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Frontiers of Supercomputing II: A National Reassessment (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), ed. by Karyn R. Ames and Alan Brenner (HTML at UC Press)

• Bilingualism and Language Contact (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1970; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1970), ed. by James E. Alatis (PDF at Georgetown)
• Contemporary Perceptions of Language: Interdisciplinary Dimensions (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1982; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1982), ed. by Heidi Byrnes (PDF at Georgetown)

• Report Of The Thirteenth Annual Round Table Meeting On Linguistics And Language Studies (Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1963), ed. by Elisabeth Delorme Woodworth and Robert J. Di Pietro (PDF at Georgetown)
• Report of the Fifth Annual Round Table Meeting on Linguistics and Language Teaching (Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1954), ed. by Hugo J. Mueller (PDF at Georgetown)

• Research in Machine Translation (8th Georgetown Round Table on Linguistics and Language Studies; Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1957), ed. by Léon Dostert (PDF at Georgetown)
• Linguistic Databases, ed. by John A. Nerbonne (PDF at Stanford)

• International Dimensions of Bilingual Education (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1978; Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1978), ed. by James E. Alatis, contrib. by E. Glyn Lewis, William Francis Mackey, Einar Haugen, Joshua A. Fishman, Shirley Brice Heath, José Andrés Vázquez, Robert L. Cooper, Sarita G. Schotta, Henry Kahane, Renée Kahane, Braj B. Kachru, Muriel Saville-Troike, Maria Medina Swanson, Merrill Swain, Eric P. Hamp, H. H. Stern, Joan Rubin, Yolanda Lastra, Wallace E. Lambert, Christina Bratt Paulston, Bernard Spolsky, Gilbert Ansre, Bonifacio P. Sibayan, Adebisi Afolayan, Beatriz R. Lavandera, John W. Oller, G. Richard Tucker, Gary A. Cziko, Gilbert Narro Garcia, Charles H. Blatchford, Robert Lado, J. Donald Bowen, Robert J. Di Pietro, Mary Finocchiaro, Eduardo Hernandez-Chavez, Heidi C. Dulay, Marina K. Burt, John B. Carroll, Charles A. Ferguson, Roger W. Shuy, Dennis R. Craig, Frederic G. Cassidy, Alan R. Thomas, Nancy C. Dorian, William Leap, and Noel Epstein (PDF at Georgetown)

• Little Words: Their History, Phonology, Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics, and Acquisition (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 2007; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c2009), ed. by Ronald P. Leow, Héctor Campos, and Donna Lardiere (PDF at Georgetown)
• Report of the Fourteenth Annual Round Table Meeting on Linguistics and Language Studies (Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1963), ed. by Robert J. Di Pietro (PDF at Georgetown)

• Directions for Historical Linguistics: A Symposium (c1968), ed. by Winfred P. Lehmann and Yakov Malkiel (HTML at Texas)

• Language in Use: Cognitive and Discourse Perspectives on Language and Language Learning (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 2003; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c2005), ed. by Andrea Tyler, Mari Takada, Yiyoung Kim, and Diana Marinova (PDF at Georgetown)
• Strategic Interaction and Language Acquisition: Theory, Practice, and Research (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1993; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1993), ed. by James E. Alatis, contrib. by Stephen D. Krashen, Catherine Snow, Anna Uhl Chamot, J. Michael O'Malley, Cecily O'Neill, Deryn P. Verity, Shōkō Okazaki, Catherine Doughty, Ruth M. Jackson, Joan Morley, Karin C. Ryding, Suzanne Flynn, Elahe Mir-Djalali, James P. Lantolf, Ahmed Mouakket, Traute Taeschner, Jo Ann Crandall, Ikuo Koike, Louis A. Arena, Irene Thompson, Frederick J. Bosco, William Frawley, Madeline Elizabeth Ehrman, Virginia Mayer, Earl W. Stevick, Christina Kakava, Nadine O'Connor Di Vito, Reinhold Freudenstein, Aoi Tsuda, Josep Maria Artigal, Phyllis J. Dragonas, Marcel Danesi, Frederick H. Jackson, H. Douglas Brown, Dieter Kastovsky, Masaki Oda, Rebecca L. Oxford, Jeanette S. DeCarrico, James R. Nattinger, Anita Wenden, Linda S. Rutledge, and Jill Robbins (PDF at Georgetown)
• Developmental Psycholinguistics: Theory and Applications (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1975; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1975), ed. by Daniel P. Dato (PDF at Georgetown)
• Educational Linguistics, Crosscultural Communication, and Global Interdependence (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1994; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1994), ed. by James E. Alatis (PDF at Georgetown)

• International Dimensions of Bilingual Education (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1978; Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1978), ed. by James E. Alatis, contrib. by E. Glyn Lewis, William Francis Mackey, Einar Haugen, Joshua A. Fishman, Shirley Brice Heath, José Andrés Vázquez, Robert L. Cooper, Sarita G. Schotta, Henry Kahane, Renée Kahane, Braj B. Kachru, Muriel Saville-Troike, Maria Medina Swanson, Merrill Swain, Eric P. Hamp, H. H. Stern, Joan Rubin, Yolanda Lastra, Wallace E. Lambert, Christina Bratt Paulston, Bernard Spolsky, Gilbert Ansre, Bonifacio P. Sibayan, Adebisi Afolayan, Beatriz R. Lavandera, John W. Oller, G. Richard Tucker, Gary A. Cziko, Gilbert Narro Garcia, Charles H. Blatchford, Robert Lado, J. Donald Bowen, Robert J. Di Pietro, Mary Finocchiaro, Eduardo Hernandez-Chavez, Heidi C. Dulay, Marina K. Burt, John B. Carroll, Charles A. Ferguson, Roger W. Shuy, Dennis R. Craig, Frederic G. Cassidy, Alan R. Thomas, Nancy C. Dorian, William Leap, and Noel Epstein (PDF at Georgetown)
• Educational Linguistics, Crosscultural Communication, and Global Interdependence (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1994; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1994), ed. by James E. Alatis (PDF at Georgetown)
• Report on The Second Annual Round Table Meeting on Linguistics and Language Teaching (Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1951), ed. by John DeFrancis (PDF at Georgetown)

• Language Spread and Language Policy: Issues, Implications, and Case Studies (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1987; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1988), ed. by Peter H. Lowenberg (PDF at Georgetown)
• Language in Public Life (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1979; Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1979), ed. by James E. Alatis and G. Richard Tucker (PDF at Georgetown)
• Sustaining Linguistic Diversity: Endangered and Minority Languages and Language Varieties (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 2006; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c2008), ed. by Kendall A. King, Natalie Schilling-Estes, Jia Jackie Lou, Lyn Wright, and Barbara Soukup (PDF at Georgetown)

• Development and the Information Age: Four Global Scenarios for the Future of Information and Communication Technology (1997), ed. by John Howkins and Robert Valantin (PDF and HTML with commentary at idrc.ca)

• The Cybernetics Group (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, c1991), by Steve J. Heims (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)

• How Computers Work: Processor and Main Memory (c2009), by Roger Young (HTML, PDF, and Word at fastchip.net)
• Tools For Thought: The People and Ideas of the Next Computer Revolution (1985), by Howard Rheingold (HTML at rheingold.com)
• Are We Spiritual Machines? Ray Kurzweil vs. the Critics of Strong A.I. (c2002), ed. by Jay W. Richards, contrib. by Ray Kurzweil, John R. Searle, Michael J. Denton, William A. Dembski, Thomas S. Ray, and George F. Gilder (at kurzweilai.net)
• Principles of Control Systems Engineering (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1960), by Vincent Del Toro and Sydney R. Parker (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Best of Creative Computing, ed. by David H. Ahl and Burchanel Green
  • volume 1 (1976): page images at atariarchives.org
  • volume 2 (1977): page images at atariarchives.org
  • volume 3 (1980): page images at atariarchives.org

• Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms (2003), by David J. C. MacKay (multiple formats with commentary in the UK)
• Immersion Into Noise (c2011), by Joseph Nechvatal (HTML and PDF at Open Humanities Press)
• In the Beginning Was Information: A Scientist Explains the Incredible Design in Nature (Green Forest, AR: Master Books, 2005), by Werner Gitt (illustrated HTML with commentary at answersingenesis.org)
• An Introduction to Information Theory (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill, 1961), by Fazlollah M. Reza (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thermostatics and Thermodynamics: An Introduction to Energy, Information and States of Matter, With Engineering Applications (Princeton, NJ et al.: D. Van Nostrand Co., c1961), by Myron Tribus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Electrical Noise (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill, 1960), by William R. Bennett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Information, Randomness and Incompleteness (second edition, 1990), by Gregory J. Chaitin (Postscript at Maine)
• The Networking Game, by Patricia Wagner and Leif Smith (HTML at pattern.com)
• The Limits of Mathematics, by Gregory J. Chaitin (illustrated HTML at Maine)
• A Mathematical Theory of Communication, by Claude Elwood Shannon (PDF at Harvard)

• The Emperor's Nightingale: Restoring the Integrity of the Corporation in the Age of Shareholder Activism, by Robert A. G. Monks (PDF files at ragm.com)
• The Evolving Mind (prepublication edition), by Ben Goertzel (HTML at goertzel.org)

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