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Digitized : the science of computers and how it shapes our world /
"There's a hidden science that affects every part of your life. You are fluent in its terminology of email, WiFi, social networking, and encryption. You use its results when you make a telephone call, access the Internet, use any factory-produced product, or travel in any modern car. The d...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford [England] ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2012.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 000. Introduction. Computers uncovered
- The science of computers
- 001. Can you compute? Understanding the impossible
- Turing's unstoppable machines
- Turing's legacy
- Complexity is simple
- Does P = NP?
- Oracles and other complexities
- Theoretical futures
- 010. Disposbale computing. Thinking logically
- Building brains
- Anatomy of a digital brain
- The end of the beginning
- The law of Moore
- The future is many
- Beyond von Neumann
- 011. Your life in binary digits. Learning to program computers
- Climbing higher
- Bases for data
- Software crisis
- Virtual futures
- 100. Monkeys with world-spanning voices
- Diverse connections
- Inter-networking
- Addressing for success
- Spinning webs over networks
- Weaving tangled webs
- Webs of deceit
- Digital lives
- 101. My computer made me cry. The birth of friendly computing
- Seeing with new eyes
- Photos and chicken wire
- Waking dreams
- It's not what you do but the way that you do it
- My pet computer
- Human computer integration
- 110. Building bionic brains. Teaching computers how to play
- The birth of intelligence
- The seasons of AI
- Intelligence from feet to head
- Adaptation by natural selection
- Learning to learn, predicting the predictors
- Complex futures
- 111. A computer changed my life. Computer creativity
- Computational biology
- Computer medicine
- Computer detectives.