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The second age of computer science : from ALGOL genes to neural nets / Subrata Dasgupta.
LIBRA QA76.17 .D363 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dasgupta, Subrata, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Computer science--History--20th century.
- Computer science.
- Genetic programming (Computer science).
- ALGOL (Computer program language).
- Neural networks (Computer science).
- History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxv, 326 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- This book describes the evolution of computer science in the form of seven overlapping, intermingling, parallel histories that unfold concurrently in the course of the two decades. Author Subrata Dasgupta named the two decades from 1970 to 1990 as the second age of computer science to distinguish it from the preceding genesis of the science and the age of the Internet/World Wide Web that followed-- Provided by the publisher.
- Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Prologue
- ALGOL genes
- Abstractions all the way
- In the name of architecture
- Getting to know parallelism
- Very formal affairs
- A symbolic science of intelligence
- Making (bio)logical connections
- Epilogue : "Progress" in the second age of computer science?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780190843861
- 0190843861
- OCLC:
- 1013738413
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