Gregory Norwood is Minnesota's most beloved philanthropist, and the story of his son's overdose was splashed across the front page of all the papers. When a photojournalist sets out to get a candid shot of the highly successful businessman on the one year anniversary of his son's death, he's shocked to find Norwood dead with a smoking gun in his hand. The city is devastated, and Minneapolis detectives Leo Magozzi and Gino Rolseth are called in to...

The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.

"In 1946, six brilliant young women programmed the first all-electric computer, the ENIAC, as part of a secret World War II project. They learned how to program without any programming languages or tools. (None existed!) This is a story about the founding of technologies we cannot live without today -- and the story of six amazing young women everyone should know. You should meet the women who launched the computer age!" --Back cover.