The second age of computer science : from ALGOL genes to neural nets / Subrata Dasgupta.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dasgupta, Subrata, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computer science--History--20th century.

Computer science.

Genetic programming (Computer science).

ALGOL (Computer program language).

Neural networks (Computer science).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2020.

Summary:

By the end of the 1960s, a new discipline named computer science had come into being. A new scientific paradigm - the 'computational paradigm' - was in place, suggesting that computer science had reached a certain level of maturity. Yet as a science it was still precociously young. New forces, some technological, some socio-economic, some cognitive impinged upon it, the outcome of which was that new kinds of computational problems arose over the next two decades. Indeed, by the beginning of the 1990's the structure of the computational paradigm looked markedly different in many important respects from how it was at the end of the 1960s. 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.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

List of illustrations

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?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Previously issued in print: 2018.

ISBN:

0-19-084388-8

0-19-755982-4

0-19-084387-X