This Reviews department article covers Moore's Law: The Life of Gordon Moore, Silicon Valley's Quiet Revolutionary by Arnold Thackray, David Brock, and Rachel Jones (Basic Books, 2015); Great Principles of Computing by Peter J. Denning and Craig H. Martell (MIT Press, 2015); The Science of Computing: Shaping of a Discipline by Matti Tedre (CRC Press, 2015), and the 2015 exhibition "The Interface Experience: Forty Years of Digital Computing" at the Bard Graduate Center Galley, New York. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]