O'Regan A Brief History of Computing

2. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4471-2359-0
Verlag: Springer
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 264 Seiten

This lively and fascinating text traces the key developments in computation – from 3000 B.C. to the present day – in an easy-to-follow and concise manner. Topics and features: ideal for self-study, offering many pedagogical features such as chapter-opening key topics, chapter introductions and summaries, exercises, and a glossary; presents detailed information on major figures in computing, such as Boole, Babbage, Shannon, Turing, Zuse and Von Neumann; reviews the history of software engineering and of programming languages, including syntax and semantics; discusses the progress of artificial intelligence, with extension to such key disciplines as philosophy, psychology, linguistics, neural networks and cybernetics; examines the impact on society of the introduction of the personal computer, the World Wide Web, and the development of mobile phone technology; follows the evolution of a number of major technology companies, including IBM, Microsoft and Apple.

Zielgruppe

Lower undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

O'Regan, Gerard

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Computing in Early Civilisations.- What is a Computer?- Early Computers.- Developments in the 1950s to 1970s.- Revolutions in the 1980s and 1990s.- IBM.- Technology Companies.- The Internet Revolution.- History of Programming Languages.- History of Software Engineering.- People in Computing.- Foundations (Boole and Babbage).- Claude Shannon.- Alan Turing.- Artificial Intelligence.

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Gerard O’Regan is a CMMI software process improvement consultant at SQC Consulting, and a visiting lecturer at Limkokwing University of Creative Technology, Malaysia. He is the author of the Springer titles Introduction to Software Process Improvement, Mathematical Approaches to Software Quality and A Practical Approach to Software Quality.