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A Brief History of Computing
The history of computing has its origins at the outset of civilization. As towns and communities evolved there was a need for increasingly sophisticated calculations. This book traces the evolution of computation, from early civilisations 3000 B.C. to the latest key developments in modern times. Thi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Springer London : Imprint: Springer,
2008.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2008. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto Completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.