This is a nice short video about her. And I read a bit more about her in this book: http://www.amazon.com/The-Information-History-Theory-Flood/d...
A good book on the subject is Gleick's The Information http://www.amazon.com/The-Information-History-Theory-Flood/d...
The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood http://www.amazon.com/The-Information-History-Theory-Flood/d...
Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe http://www.amazon.com/Turings-Cathedral-Origins-Digital-Univ...
Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future: The Ingenious Ideas That Drive Today's Computers http://www.amazon.com/Nine-Algorithms-That-Changed-Future/dp...
http://www.amazon.com/The-Information-History-Theory-Flood/d...
Secrets of a JavaScript Ninja I enjoyed. Nothing that was like "ZOMG!" but it did help me think better about my JS code. http://www.manning.com/resig/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Tartt Has a new book out I haven't read, yet, but her other books have been great. especially http://www.amazon.com/The-Secret-History-Donna-Tartt/dp/1400...
Then neither a tutorial nor book, but pretty helpful: Bookmarking the comments of people like Paul Graham. Since he usually makes insightful comments on interesting articles, it works as a sorta hackish "Best Of" link https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=pg
https://www.amazon.com/Information-History-Theory-Flood/dp/1...
https://www.amazon.com/Turings-Cathedral-Origins-Digital-Uni...