The Computing Universe
eBook - PDF

The Computing Universe

A Journey through a Revolution

  1. English
  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Computing Universe

A Journey through a Revolution

About this book

Computers now impact almost every aspect of our lives, from our social interactions to the safety and performance of our cars. How did this happen in such a short time? And this is just the beginning. In this book, Tony Hey and Gyuri Pápay lead us on a journey from the early days of computers in the 1930s to the cutting-edge research of the present day that will shape computing in the coming decades. Along the way, they explain the ideas behind hardware, software, algorithms, Moore's Law, the birth of the personal computer, the Internet and the Web, the Turing Test, Jeopardy's Watson, World of Warcraft, spyware, Google, Facebook and quantum computing. This book also introduces the fascinating cast of dreamers and inventors who brought these great technological developments into every corner of the modern world. This exciting and accessible introduction will open up the universe of computing to anyone who has ever wondered where his or her smartphone came from.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright information
  5. Table of contents
  6. Preface
  7. A quick tour through the book
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Prologue: Blog entry from Jonathan Hey
  10. 1 Beginnings of a revolution
  11. 2 The hardware
  12. 3 The software is in the holes
  13. 4 Programming languages and software engineering
  14. 5 Algorithmics
  15. 6 Mr. Turing’s amazing machines
  16. 7 Moore’s law and the silicon revolution
  17. 8 Computing gets personal
  18. 9 Computer games
  19. 10 Licklider’s Intergalactic Computer Network
  20. 11 Weaving the World Wide Web
  21. 12 The dark side of the web
  22. 13 Artificial intelligence and neural networks
  23. 14 Machine learning and natural language processing
  24. 15 The end of Moore’s law
  25. 16 The third age of computing
  26. 17 Computers and science fiction – an essay
  27. Epilogue: From Turing’s padlocked mug to the present day
  28. Appendix 1: Length scales
  29. Appendix 2: Computer science research and the information technology industry
  30. Notes
  31. Suggested reading
  32. Figure credits
  33. Name index
  34. General index