Digitized
The science of computers and how it shapes our world
1st Edition
Published on 22. March 2012
307 pages
978-0-19-163367-6 (ISBN)
Description
Everyone uses computers today. But what do you really know about them? Using the voices of pioneers and leading experts, Peter J. Bentley tells the story of computer science, explaining how and why computers were invented, how they work, looking at real-world examples of computers in use, and considering what will happen in the future.
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Illustrations
- 000 Introduction
- Computers uncovered
- The science of computers
- 001 Can You Compute?
- Understanding the impossible
- Turing's unstoppable machines
- Turing' s legacy
- Complexity is simple
- Does P = NP?
- Oracles and other complexities
- Theoretical futures
- 010 Disposable Computing
- Thinking logically
- Building brains
- Anatomy of a digital brain
- The end of the beginning
- The Law of Moore
- The future is many
- Beyond von Neumann
- 011 Your Life in Binary Digits
- Learning to program computers
- Climbing higher
- Bases for data
- Software crisis
- Virtual futures
- 100 Monkeys with World-Spanning Voices
- Diverse connections
- Inter-networking
- Addressing for success
- Spinning webs over networks
- Weaving tangled webs
- Webs of deceit
- Digital lives
- 101 My Computer Made Me Cry
- The birth of friendly computing
- Seeing with new eyes
- Photos and chicken wire
- Waking dreams
- It's not what you do but the way that you do it
- My pet computer
- Human-computer integration
- 110 Building Bionic Brains
- Teaching computers how to play
- The birth of intelligence
- The seasons of AI
- Intelligence from feet to head
- Adaptation by natural selection
- Learning to learn, predicting the predictors
- Complex futures
- 111 A Computer Changed My Life
- Computer creativity
- Computational biology
- Computer medicine
- Computer detectives
- Endnotes
- Bibliographic Notes
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- X
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