Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Gewicht: 508 g
ISBN: 978-1-84800-083-4
Verlag: Springer, Berlin
Features: Offers detailed information on major figures in computing, such as Boole, Babbage, Shannon , Turing and Von Neumann; Includes a history of programming languages, including syntax and semantics; presents a history of software engineering; Discusses the progress of artificial intelligence, with extension to some of the key disciplines in this field, such as philosophy, psychology, linguistics, neural networks and cybernetic; examines the history of the Internet revolution, World Wide Web and Dot Com Bubble; shows the evolution of a number of technology companies such as IBM, Motorola and Microsoft.
Focusing on the fundamental areas in the computing field, this clearly written and broad-ranging text will catch the attention and greatly benefit computer science students.
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From the contents. Early Civilisations.- The Babylonians.- The Egyptians.- The Greeks.- The Romans.- Foundations.- Boole.- Babbage.- Formalism.- Turing.- Shannon.- Von Neumann.- Hermann Zuse.- Computer Programming Languages.- Object-oriented Languages.- Functional Programming Languages.- Logic Programming Languages.- Syntax and Semantics.- Software Engineering.- What is Software Engineering?- Early Software Engineering.- Software Engineering Mathematics.- Formal Methods.- Software Inspections and Testing.- Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems.- Descartes.- Philosophy and AI.- Cognitive Psychology.- Linguistics.- Cybernetics.- Logic and AI.- Computability, Incompleteness and Decidability.- Robots.- Neural Networks.- Expert Systems.- The Internet Revolution.- The ARPANET.- TCP/IP.- Birth of the Internet.- Birth of the World-Wide-Web.- Dot Com Companies.- E-Software Development.- E-Commerce Security.- Famous Technology Companies.- Microsoft.- Motorola.- Apple Computers.- Oracle.- Siemens.- HP.