The Computing Universe: A Journey through a RevolutionCambridge University Press, 8 dec 2014 Computers now impact almost every aspect of our lives, from our social interactions to the safety and performance of our cars. How did this happen in such a short time? And this is just the beginning. In this book, Tony Hey and Gyuri Pápay lead us on a journey from the early days of computers in the 1930s to the cutting-edge research of the present day that will shape computing in the coming decades. Along the way, they explain the ideas behind hardware, software, algorithms, Moore's Law, the birth of the personal computer, the Internet and the Web, the Turing Test, Jeopardy's Watson, World of Warcraft, spyware, Google, Facebook and quantum computing. This book also introduces the fascinating cast of dreamers and inventors who brought these great technological developments into every corner of the modern world. This exciting and accessible introduction will open up the universe of computing to anyone who has ever wondered where his or her smartphone came from. |
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... United States of America A catalog record for this publication is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication data Hey, Anthony J. G. The computing universe: a journey through a revolution / Tony ...
... United States of America A catalog record for this publication is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication data Hey, Anthony J. G. The computing universe: a journey through a revolution / Tony ...
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... United States and Maurice Wilkes and Konrad Zuse in Europe. The story follows the rise of IBM and Digital to the computing legends at Xerox PARC with their incredible Alto computer, created by Alan Kay, Chuck Thacker, and Butler Lampson ...
... United States and Maurice Wilkes and Konrad Zuse in Europe. The story follows the rise of IBM and Digital to the computing legends at Xerox PARC with their incredible Alto computer, created by Alan Kay, Chuck Thacker, and Butler Lampson ...
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... United States. these tables was taking far too long and the backlog was causing delays in gun development and production. The situation seemed hopeless since the number of requests for tables that BRL received each week was now more ...
... United States. these tables was taking far too long and the backlog was causing delays in gun development and production. The situation seemed hopeless since the number of requests for tables that BRL received each week was now more ...
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... United Kingdom to the Moore School was a New Zealander named Leslie Comrie (B.1.3). Comrie had a longtime interest in astronomy and scientific computation, and during the war he had led a team of scientists to computerize such things as ...
... United Kingdom to the Moore School was a New Zealander named Leslie Comrie (B.1.3). Comrie had a longtime interest in astronomy and scientific computation, and during the war he had led a team of scientists to computerize such things as ...
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... United States. He put in my hands a document written by J. von Neumann on behalf of the group at the Moore School and entitled “Draft Report on the EDVAC.” Comrie, who was spending the night at St. John's College, obligingly let me keep ...
... United States. He put in my hands a document written by J. von Neumann on behalf of the group at the Moore School and entitled “Draft Report on the EDVAC.” Comrie, who was spending the night at St. John's College, obligingly let me keep ...
Inhoudsopgave
The hardware | 34 |
Computer games | 174 |
The end of Moores law | 298 |
The third age of computing | 318 |
Computers and science fiction an essay | 333 |
xiii | 367 |
39 | 375 |
58 | 389 |
220 | 395 |
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