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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Pagina viii
... problems. Alan Turing, the English genius who was one of the first to explore these questions, developed a theoretical machine model by imitating how a “human computer” would go about solving a computational problem. Turing machines ...
... problems. Alan Turing, the English genius who was one of the first to explore these questions, developed a theoretical machine model by imitating how a “human computer” would go about solving a computational problem. Turing machines ...
Pagina ix
... problem of planning and learning in the presence of uncertainty, and computational thinking ideas applied to “big data” have application in both science and commerce. How do we instruct a computer to solve a particular problem? First we ...
... problem of planning and learning in the presence of uncertainty, and computational thinking ideas applied to “big data” have application in both science and commerce. How do we instruct a computer to solve a particular problem? First we ...
Pagina 2
... problem, one could design a much more efficient, specialpurpose machine. Universality is the idea that, although these other computers may be faster, the Universal Turing Machine can do any calculation that they can do. This is known as ...
... problem, one could design a much more efficient, specialpurpose machine. Universality is the idea that, although these other computers may be faster, the Universal Turing Machine can do any calculation that they can do. This is known as ...
Pagina 5
... problem to be performed by the ENIAC was suggested by von Neumann. The problem arose from his work at Los Alamos and involved the complex calculations necessary to evaluate a design for Edward Teller's proposed hydrogen bomb. The ...
... problem to be performed by the ENIAC was suggested by von Neumann. The problem arose from his work at Los Alamos and involved the complex calculations necessary to evaluate a design for Edward Teller's proposed hydrogen bomb. The ...
Pagina 6
... problem of how the logical components are put together in a specific order to solve a particular problem has now been separated from concerns about the detailed hardware of the machine. This splitting of responsibilities for the ...
... problem of how the logical components are put together in a specific order to solve a particular problem has now been separated from concerns about the detailed hardware of the machine. This splitting of responsibilities for the ...
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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