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Digitized
The science of computers and how it shapes our world
Peter J. Bentley
320 pages
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Approx 10 black and white illustrations
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216x138mm
978-0-19-969379-5
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Hardback
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22 March 2012
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- Covers the whole of computer science - from maths to engineering to social sciences - to understand how all aspects of computing are related
- Tells the story of computers through interview of past pioneers and current researchers
- Explains even the most complicated aspects of computer science in easy-to-read language
- Provides not only the historical context and motivation behind past discoveries, but also explains the cutting edge research from the laboratory and considers the future of computers
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 discipline is so new that some prefer to call it a branch of engineering or mathematics. But it is so powerful and world-changing that you would be hard-pressed to find a single human being on the planet unaffected by its
achievements. The science of computers enables the supply and creation of power, food, water, medicine, transport, money, communication, entertainment, and most goods in shops. It has transformed societies with the Internet, the digitization of information, mobile phone networks and GPS technologies.
Here, Peter J. Bentley explores how this young discipline grew from its theoretical conception by pioneers such as Turing, through its growth spurts in the Internet, its difficult adolescent stage where the promises of AI were never achieved and dot-com bubble burst, to its current stage as a (semi)mature field, now capable of remarkable achievements. Charting the successes and failures of computer science through the years, Bentley discusses what innovations may change
our world in the future.Readership: General readers interested in computers, or working with computers. Also of interest to undergraduate computing, computer science, and IT students.
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Peter J. Bentley, Honorary Reader, Department of Computer Science, University College London Dr. Peter J. Bentley has been called a creative maverick computer scientist. He is an Honorary Reader at the Department of Computer Science, University College London (UCL), Collaborating Professor at the Korean Advanced Institute for Science and Technology (KAIST), a contributing editor for WIRED UK, a consultant and a freelance writer. He has published approximately 200 scientific papers and is author of seven other books, including the popular science books Digital Biology, The Book of Numbers and The Undercover Scientist. He is a regular contributor to television and radio.
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"I have always thought that no book deserved 10 out of 10, but for this one I make an exception." - BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT "A richly interesting survey of computer science" - Steven Poole, The Guardian "Computer science has become so pervasive in modern life that it can seem invisible or be taken for granted; Bentley succeeds in bringing this hidden world to light." - Library Journal "Anyone looking for a neat illustration of how technology has infiltrated our everyday lives need look no further than the first few pages of Digitized" - Engineering and Technology Magazine "An entertaining and informative popular science study of computer
science." - New York Journal of Books
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Introduction
1: Can you compute?
2: Disposable computing
3: Your life in binary digits
4: Monkeys with world-spanning voices
5: My computer made me cry
6: Building bionic brains
7: A computer saved my life
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