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Digitized : the science of computers and how it shapes our world / Peter J. Bentley.
LIBRA QA76 .B468 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bentley, P. J.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Computer science.
- Computer science--Popular works.
- Genre:
- Popular works.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 292 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 000 Introduction 1
- Computers uncovered 4
- The science of computers 8
- 001 Can You Compute? 13
- Understanding the impossible 16
- Turing's unstoppable machines 21
- Turing's legacy 25
- Complexity is simple 29
- Does P = NP? 34
- Oracles and other complexities 38
- Theoretical futures 41
- 010 Disposable Computing 43
- Thinking logically 45
- Building brains 49
- Anatomy of a digital brain 54
- The end of the beginning 58
- The Law of Moore 62
- The future is many 67
- Beyond von Neumann 71
- Oil Your Life in Binary Digits 74
- Learning to program computers 80
- Climbing higher 85
- Bases for data 91
- Software crisis 95
- Virtual futures 102
- 100 Monkeys with World-Spanning Voices 104
- Diverse connections 108
- Inter-networking 112
- Addressing for success 119
- Spinning webs over networks 123
- Weaving tangled webs 129
- Webs of deceit 134
- Digital lives 137
- 101 My Computer Made Me Cry 140
- The birth of friendly computing 145
- Seeing with new eyes 149
- Photos and chicken wire 153
- Waking dreams 156
- It's not what you do but the way that you do it 162
- My pet computer 168
- Human-computer integration 170
- 110 Building Bionic Brains 173
- Teaching computers how to play 175
- The birth of intelligence 179
- The seasons of AI 182
- Intelligence from feet to head 190
- Adaptation by natural selection 195
- Learning to learn, predicting the predictors 201
- Complex futures 205
- 111 A Computer Changed My Life 209
- Computer creativity 210
- Computational biology 218
- Computer medicine 225
- Computer detectives 233.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-283) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199693795
- 019969379X
- OCLC:
- 752069056
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