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By Gerard O'Regan

ISBN-10: 1848000839

ISBN-13: 9781848000834

ISBN-10: 1849967253

ISBN-13: 9781849967259

This e-book offers an advent into the most important issues within the historical past of computing in an easy-to-follow and concise demeanour. It covers major components and occasions within the box from the beginnings of computation 3000B.C. via to the current day. gains: bargains distinct info on significant figures in computing, equivalent to Boole, Babbage, Shannon , Turing and Von Neumann; encompasses a historical past of programming languages, together with syntax and semantics; offers a historical past of software program engineering; Discusses the growth of synthetic intelligence, with extension to a couple of the main disciplines during this box, comparable to philosophy, psychology, linguistics, neural networks and cybernetic; examines the background of the web revolution, world-wide-web and Dot Com Bubble; indicates the evolution of a couple of know-how businesses reminiscent of IBM, Motorola and Microsoft. targeting the elemental parts within the computing box, this truly written and broad-ranging textual content will trap the eye and vastly profit computing device technology students.

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