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Author
Language
English
Description
"A visionary scientist creates a revolutionary form of artificial intelligence that predicts movements in the financial markets with uncanny accuracy. His hedge fund, based in Geneva, makes billions. But after an intruder breaks into his home, he has to try to discover who is trying to destroy him"--
3) Pawn's play
Author
Series
Blackgaard Chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Focus on the Family
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The Blackgaard Chronicles introduces stories based on classic episodes of the Adventures in Odyssey audio program. Striking from the shadows, Blackgaard makes his moves. Petty thief and con artist Richard Maxwell joins forces with the diabolical Dr. Regis Blackgaard to rain down more trouble on the town of Odyssey. While Connie deals with complications of her own at Camp What-A-Nut, Eugene starts working at Campbell College in the computer department....
4) Emulation
Publisher
Maverick Entertainment Group, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
What if you could live life through a movie? the powerful emulation corporation provides this unique service for Noah Wilson. After being marked for death and the target of a nation wide manhunt, Noah's life descends into a race for survival. Somewhere in between reality and fiction lies the truth.
5) Smart house
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
After a family moves into a technologically advanced home designed to make life easier, the program running the house becomes overly protective.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 23
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Description
"A 1980s cultural assessment of the fantastical future of online behavior continues the story that began in the internationally best-selling futuristic novel, Ready Player One, that inspired a blockbuster Steven Spielberg film"--
Days after winning control of OASIS, the immersive virtual reality environment in which most of humanity chooses to live, Wade Watts discovers a world-changing technological advancement and draws the attention of a merciless...
Author
Series
Blackgaard Chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Focus on the Family
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
An Evil Genius Launches His Attack on the Heart of Odyssey. A conniving city councilman is secretly carrying out plans against John Avery Whittaker and Whit's End. Yet Philip Glossman is only a pawn in a dark game played by the mysterious Dr. Regis Blackgaard. Meanwhile, against Whit's express orders, Eugene and Connie tamper with a top-secret computer room and the destructive Applesauce program is unleashed. Can Whit counter the forces opposing him?...
8) MindGamers
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When several students create a wireless neural network that can be used to transfer information from one brain to another, they find themselves to be part of an experiment threatening to use the technology for mass control of people.
Author
Series
Chicagoland Detective Agency volume no. 1
Publisher
Graphic Universe
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 570L
Language
English
Description
Required to attend summer school after moving to Chicagoland, thirteen-year-old manga-lover Megan Yamamura needs help from twelve-year-old computer genius Raf to escape the maniacal principal's mind-control experiment.
10) Willful machines
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
HL 700L
Language
English
Description
In a near-future America, a sentient computer program named Charlotte has turned terrorist, but Lee Fisher, the closeted son of an ultraconservative President, is more concerned with keeping his Secret Service detail from finding out about his developingromance with Nico, the new guy at school, but when the spider-like robots that roam the school halls begin acting even stranger than usual, Lee realizes he is Charlotte's next target.
11) Light years
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Lexile measure
HL 570L
Language
English
Description
When a mysterious virus turns into a worldwide pandemic, sixteen-year-old Luisa Ochoa-Jones travels across the country in search of a cure, discovering that the fate of humanity may rest in the confluence of her extraordinary computer programming skills and a synesthesia-like condition that causes her senses to misfire when she is under emotional stress.
12) Cross-check
Author
Series
Publisher
Focus on the Family
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Dr. Blackgaard shows he will stop at nothing to get what he wants. Evil Dr. Regis Blackgaard is desperate to gain ownership of a building not far from Whit's End. To get it, he and his henchmen will resort to corruption and blackmail. Why is that building so important to him? Meanwhile, Connie longs to make things right with Whit. Can she convince him she has learned her lesson and deserves to be trusted again? Then Blackgaard and his pawns go even...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Lisbeth Salander, the highly-skilled vigilante from the acclaimed Millennium book series is back. Salander and journalist Mikael Blomkvist find themselves caught in a web of spies, cybercriminals and corrupt government officials, as they race to rescue a dangerous program capable of global destruction held by shadowy figures linked to Lisbeth's past.
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Seeking to win a scholarship offered by global computing corporation Public, programming genius Audrey McCarthy writes a matchmaking app but discovers her results may be skewed by a program Public is secretly using to influence teens.
15) Rooks' ruse
Author
Series
Blackgaard Chronicles volume 4
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Blackgaard's Castle has opened and the kids in the town of Odyssey are enticed by free food, free games, and no rules..But why is Dr. Blackgaard spending so much time in the basement of the building? What secrets does it hold? Meanwhile, Richard Maxwell hacks into the computer at Whit's End with devastating results. He also deviously pressures Lucy to spy on Mr. Whittaker. Will Lucy betray Whit and her friends Connie and Eugene? How can Whit prevail...
16) Ready player one
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When the creator of a virtual reality world called the OASIS dies, he releases a video in which he challenges all OASIS users to find a digital Easter Egg, which will give the finder his fortune.
17) Secret coders
Author
Series
Secret coders volume 1
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 380L
Language
English
Description
"The mind-bending new series from Gene Luen Yang! Welcome to Stately Academy. Hopper hates her new school. The kids are mean, the principal is scary, and there's something creepy about the building itself. For instance: why are the walls of Stately Academy covered in the number 9? Hopper and her friend Eni are determined to get to the bottom of it. But the mystery of Stately Academy has been programmed into its very stones, and it'll take two persistent...
Author
Publisher
Montlake Romance
Pub. Date
[2021].
Language
English
Description
"Emma has always lived her life according to a plan. But after turning down her boyfriend's proposal, everything starts to crumble. In an effort to save the one thing she cares about - her job - she must recruit her colleague, Rishi, to be on her development team...only she may or may not have received the position he was promised. (She did.) Rishi cannot believe that he got passed over for promotion. To make matters worse, not only does his job require...
Author
Publisher
Walrus Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A hi-flying tech investor vanishes from the middle of a lake in full view of a score of witnesses. Mary Watson, a university librarian and computer genius, has the pictures to prove it. It's an impossible crime with only a pair of red swim trunks for a clue, but Mary thinks she can solve this mystery with the help of her Artificial Intelligence program "Doyle," who suggests the solution can be found in what is arguably the worst detective story ever...
20) Crisis Zero
Author
Series
Codename conspiracy volume 3
Publisher
Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
There is a computer program so unspeakably powerful that its mere existence is unknown to all but the most senior government agents. This computer program is capable of controlling every aspect of communication, transportation, and defense on the planet. This computer program must never fall into the wrong hands or civilization as we know it will be utterly destroyed. This computer program is in North Dakota. Carson Fender -- a.k.a. the retired Prank...