I recently became familiar with The Computer Book: From the Abacus to Artificial Intelligence, 250 Milestones in the History of Computer Science by Simson L Garfinkel and Rachel H. Grunspan.

It's worth checking out.  Garfinkel is an ACM Fellow, and just became an IEEE Fellow.  He also co-wrote this March ACM Communications story Understanding Database Reconstruction Attacks on Public Data.
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