Designed to promote computer literacy, this text provides a non-technical introduction to the computer and information processing. Organized in three sections (societal issues, computer basics, and applications), the book presents an overview of the key social issues of the computer age, emphasizing that human beings in a democracy will make the ultimate decisions about how computers will be put to use. It explains why computers can perform tasks that would otherwise require human intelligence and familiarizes students with a variety of applications that are likely to be useful to any educated person, such as word processing, spreadsheets, database programs, and graphics. And it also provides understanding of some leading-edge applications: artificial intelligence, telecommunications, robotics, automation, LANs, relational databases, and simulation. The text also discusses the societal impact of computers and promotes an understanding of the computer and its parts. Coverage of leading-edge applications such as telecommunications and database systems, as well as word and text processing, is included.
Designed to promote computer literacy, this text provides a non-technical introduction to the computer and information processing. Organized in three sections (societal issues, computer basics, and applications), the book presents an overview of the key social issues of the computer age, emphasizing that human beings in a democracy will make the ultimate decisions about how computers will be put to use. It explains why computers can perform tasks that would otherwise require human intelligence and familiarizes students with a variety of applications that are likely to be useful to any educated person, such as word processing, spreadsheets, database programs, and graphics. And it also provides understanding of some leading-edge applications: artificial intelligence, telecommunications, robotics, automation, LANs, relational databases, and simulation. The text also discusses the societal impact of computers and promotes an understanding of the computer and its parts. Coverage of leading-edge applications such as telecommunications and database systems, as well as word and text processing, is included.
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Für höhere Schule und Studium
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978-0-534-23358-7 (9780534233587)
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University of New Hampshire, USA
The computer age; How computers store and handle information - numbers, words, symbols; How computers got to be what they are, and where they are going; How the different parts of a computer work together; Taking charge of the computer; Artificial intelligence; Robots and automation; Databases and the spread of personal information; Using Database and spreadsheet programs to manage information; Writing a program to make text revision easy; Word and text processing; Computer networks and the information society; Computer graphics; Simulation; The computer age: neither good nor evil.
