Subrata Dasgupta: Computer Science

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Over the past sixty years, the spectacular growth of the technologies associated with the computer is visible for all to see and experience. Yet, the science underpinning this technology is less visible and little understood outside the professional computer science community. As a scientific discipline, computer science stands alongside the likes of molecular biology and cognitive science as one of the most significant new sciences of the post Second World War era.

In this Very Short Introduction, Subrata Dasgupta sheds light on these lesser known areas and considers the conceptual basis of computer science. Discussing algorithms, programming, and sequential and parallel processing, he considers emerging modern ideas such as biological computing and cognitive modelling, challenging the idea of computer science as a science of the artificial.

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Über den Autor

Professor Subrata Dasgupta holds the Computer Science Trust Fund Eminent Scholar Chair in the School of Computing and Informatics, University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He was previously Dowty Professor of Computer Systems Engineering at University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, and has held various visiting positions at universities including Oxford and Cambridge. He has written 14 books on topics of technology, science, and creativity, including It Began with Babbage: the genesis of computer science (OUP, 2014).

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1: The 'stuff' of computing
2: Computational artifacts
3: Algorithmic thinking
4: The art, science, and engineering of programming
5: The discipline of computer architecture
6: Heuristic computing
7: Computational thinking
Epilogue
References
Further Reading
Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2016
Genre:	Importe , Informatik
Rubrik:	Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kt kartonierte Bücher
ISBN-13:	9780198733461
ISBN-10:	0198733461
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Dasgupta, Subrata
Hersteller:	Oxford University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Postfach:81 03 40, D-70567 Stuttgart, vertrieb@dbg.de
Maße:	172 x 111 x 15 mm
Von/Mit:	Subrata Dasgupta
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.06.2016
Gewicht:	0,132 kg