Computer Career

From the first cable to a secure network across the world. The Essentials of Computer Networking takes you from a single copper pair all the way to a secure, working network—one clear step at a time. No prior experience required. This fully revised Second Edition is now completely illustrated, with 80+ detailed diagrams that make every concept visible: cable cutaways, the OSI stack, subnetting worked out on the page, packet exchanges, and network topologies. Whether you're starting an IT career, preparing for a certification, or finally connecting the dots on how networks really work, ...

Are you looking for an exciting and dynamic career in the tech industry? Look no further than data centers! Data centers are the backbone of the digital age. And now, with Jumpstart Your Career in Data Centers by Carrie Goetz, you can kickstart your career in this exciting field!

What if your business kept finding, nurturing, and converting customers even while you slept? That's not a fantasy—it's what happens when you connect AI agents and automation into one working system, instead of relying on manual follow-up that quietly costs you leads every single week. This audiobook walks you through building that system from the ground up: a funnel that converts, lead generation that runs on autopilot, and an AI agent that answers customer questions instantly, while knowing exactly when to hand things off to you.

AI Agents Made Practical: How to Move from One Agent to Full Business Automation is the essential guide for entrepreneurs, business owners, and professionals ready to go beyond the hype and build real, results-driven AI systems. Author Mark Goldberg breaks down the journey from deploying a single AI agent to orchestrating a fully automated business—step by step, without the jargon. Whether you are just getting started or already have one agent running, this audiobook shows you exactly how to scale up intelligently.

Based on the author’s experience in the world of inventing and promotion, Hardcore Inventing offers the kind of advice you can only learn from experience: how to developing an idea into an invention, how to build a prototype for show, how to safeguard intellectual property, how to market both strategically and in “guerilla" mode, how find investors, and much more. And all of that is based on his IP 3 Tacitical Method which breaks everything down to Invent, Protect, Promote, and Profit.

Stop fighting symptoms. Start finding solutions. Discover the systems thinking tools that actually work. In Signals & Levers, Elisabeth Hendrickson—former VP R&D at Pivotal and author of the enduring Explore It!—and Joel Tosi—who has spent 25+ years delivering software and a decade helping teams stop “change theater”—teach you to see through the illusions that plague every software organization. Using tools from statistical process control, systems thinking, and economic theory, they show you how to identify real problems and find the levers that create lasting change.

How can we apply technology to drive business value? For years we've been told that the performance of software delivery teams doesn't matter - that it can't provide a competitive advantage to our companies. Through four years of groundbreaking research to include data collected from the State of DevOps reports conducted with Puppet, Dr. Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim set out to find a way to measure software delivery performance - and what drives it - using rigorous statistical methods.

Building on his national bestseller The Rational Optimist, Matt Ridley chronicles the history of innovation, and how we need to change our thinking on the subject. Innovation is the main event of the modern age, the reason we experience both dramatic improvements in our living standards and...

Cybersecurity leadership has changed, but many CISOs are still operating with outdated playbooks. The CISO 3.0: A Guide to Next-Generation Cybersecurity Leadership is a practical roadmap for security leaders who need to move beyond technical controls and compliance checklists and become trusted business and risk leaders.

The ultimate do-it-now guide to getting started in managed services. Now includes chapters on cloud services, bundling, and more. Whether you're a new computer consultant or an experienced technician making the move to managed services, this is the perfect audiobook for you! The audiobook includes step-by-step instructions for creating service offerings, reformulating your business, creating service agreements, and more!

Have you been struggling to find a guide that explains how to get started in cybersecurity? Does your lack of experience make it difficult to get your first job? The path to cybersecurity excellent can be daunting, especially when you're left to navigate it alone. Countless individuals harbor the same ambition as you, yet they grapple with the same pain points. The lack of a guiding hand leaves them stranded, not knowing which doors to knock on or which paths to tread.

Artificial intelligence does the seemingly impossible - driving cars, trading stocks, and teaching children. But facing the sea change that AI will bring can be paralyzing. How should companies set strategies, governments design policies, and people plan their lives for a world so different from what we know? In Prediction Machines, three eminent economists recast the rise of AI as a drop in the cost of prediction. With this single, masterful stroke, they lift the curtain on the AI-is-magic hype and show how basic tools from economics provide clarity about the AI revolution and a basis for action by CEOs, managers, policy makers, investors, and entrepreneurs.

For decades, IBM shaped the way the world did business. IBM products were in every large organization, and IBM corporate culture established a management style that was imitated by companies around the globe. It was “Big Blue”—an icon. And yet over the years, IBM has gone through both failure and success. The company almost went out of business in the early 1990s, then came back strong with new business strategies and an emphasis on artificial intelligence. In this authoritative history, James Cortada tells the story of one of the most influential American companies of the last century.

Jeff Hawkins, the man who created the PalmPilot, Treo smart phone, and other handheld devices, has reshaped our relationship to computers. Now he stands ready to revolutionize both neuroscience and computing in one stroke, with a new understanding of intelligence itself.

A collection of actionable AI tools you can apply immediately to help your nonprofit drive social impact and changeIn AI for Nonprofits: Putting Artificial Intelligence to Work for Your Cause, a team of leading nonprofit experts and social entrepreneurs delivers a startlingly insightful, strategic “how-to guide” for nonprofit and foundation leaders, board members, and volunteers, as well as higher education professionals and social entrepreneurs looking to deploy and integrate artificial intelligence tailored to their organization's mission and needs.

A New York Times technology correspondent presents the dramatic rise and fall of Uber, set against the rapid upheaval in Silicon Valley during the mobile era. Based on hundreds of interviews with current and former Uber employees, along with previously unpublished documents, Super Pumped is a pause-resisting story of ambition and deception, obscene wealth, and bad behavior, that explores how blistering technological and financial innovation culminated in one of the most catastrophic 12-month periods in American corporate history.

Step into the future of earnings with The Premier AI Duo—two guides to boost income and streamline work using AI. With "Unleashing the Millionaire Power of ChatGPT" and "The Ultimate ChatGPT and DALL·E Side Hustle Bible," discover side hustles, improve workflow, and create income streams—no tech skills needed!

Few books in computing have had as profound an influence on software management as "peopleware". The unique insight of this longtime best seller is that the major issues of software development are human, not technical. They’re not easy issues; but solve them, and you’ll maximize your chances of success. For this third edition, the authors have added six new chapters and updated the text throughout, bringing it in line with today’s development environments and challenges.

Imagine waking up one morning, feeling fully invigorated in your career, almost like you have a superpower. That is the real power of AI. And it’s here. In The Human Advantage, award-winning podcaster, teacher and innovation expert Jeremy Utley makes the case that the most interesting thing...

Turn Your Social Media Into a $12,000+/Month Machine (Even If You’re Starting from Scratch) Tired of posting content that doesn’t bring real growth, customers, or sales? Now picture this: you open your social apps and finally see numbers that matter—DMs coming in, booked calls, orders, partnerships… without spending hours guessing what to post, and without relying on “luck” with the algorithm.