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Computing is usually viewed as a technology field that advances at the breakneck speed of Moore's law. If we turn away even for a moment, we might miss a game-changing technological breakthrough or an earth-shaking theoretical development. This book takes a different perspective, presenting com...
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The MIT Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, Massachusetts : |
| Publication Dates: | [2015] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
Computing is usually viewed as a technology field that advances at the breakneck speed of Moore's law. If we turn away even for a moment, we might miss a game-changing technological breakthrough or an earth-shaking theoretical development. This book takes a different perspective, presenting computing as a science governed by fundamental principles that span all technologies. Computer science is a science of information processes. We need a new language to describe the science, and in this book, Peter Denning and Craig Martell offer the great principles framework as just such a language. This |
| Carrier Form: | xviii, 302 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780262527125 026252712X |
| Index Number: | QA76 |
| CLC: | TP3 |
| Call Number: | TP3/D411-1 |
| Contents: | Computing -- Domains -- Information -- Machines -- Programming -- Computation -- Memory -- Parallelism -- Queueing -- Design -- Networking -- Afterword. |