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The computer : a very short introduction

By Darrel , Ince

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
2011
ISBN
978-0-19-958659-2, 0199586594
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
248 kB (253696 bytes)
Series
Very short introductions 292
Edition
1
Pages
139\0
Time added
2017-08-15 11:00:00
ComputerwissenschaftenInformatik;Computer science.;Computer science -- H

Description

What is the basic nature of the modern computer? How does it work? How has it been possible to squeeze so much power into increasingly smaller machines? What will the next generations of computers look like? In this Very Short Introduction, Darrel Ince looks at the basic concepts behind all computers, the changes in hardware and software that allowed computers to become so small and commonplace, the challenges produced by the computer revolution--especially whole new modes of cybercrime and security issues, the Internet and the advent of "cloud computing," and the promise of whole new horizons opening up with quantum computing and computing using DNA.

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