Download or read book Pebbles to Computers written by Hans Blohm and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1986 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Intriguing...beautiful and thought-provoking....Features striking photography and perceptive yet concise text"--Library Journal. From the abacus to the microchip, from the sun dial to the satellite dish, the devices we have designed for computation bear feature remarkable threads of continuity. This lavishly illustrated volume travels from Stonehenge to Silicon Valley to provide a fascinating look at the patterns that run through humanity's technological achievements.
Download or read book Counting Pebbles to Writing Code written by and published by World Book a Scott Fetzer Company. This book was released on 2016 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Charts the milestones in the history of mathematics and computer science in a narrative timeline format. Features: glossary, additional resources, and index"--
Download or read book COUNTING PEBBLES TO WRITING CODE written by World Book and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book charts the milestones in the history of mathematics and computer science in a narrative timeline format. Each book in this new series follows a major technological innovation from its first appearance in human history to its present-day development. The intuitive layout of each book underscores the remarkable history that is surveyed. Features include a glossary, additional resources, and index.
Download or read book The Pattern On The Stone written by W. Daniel Hillis and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2014-12-09 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most people are baffled by how computers work and assume that they will never understand them. What they don't realize -- and what Daniel Hillis's short book brilliantly demonstrates -- is that computers' seemingly complex operations can be broken down into a few simple parts that perform the same simple procedures over and over again. Computer wizard Hillis offers an easy-to-follow explanation of how data is processed that makes the operations of a computer seem as straightforward as those of a bicycle. Avoiding technobabble or discussions of advanced hardware, the lucid explanations and colorful anecdotes in The Pattern on the Stone go straight to the heart of what computers really do. Hillis proceeds from an outline of basic logic to clear descriptions of programming languages, algorithms, and memory. He then takes readers in simple steps up to the most exciting developments in computing today -- quantum computing, parallel computing, neural networks, and self-organizing systems. Written clearly and succinctly by one of the world's leading computer scientists, The Pattern on the Stone is an indispensable guide to understanding the workings of that most ubiquitous and important of machines: the computer.
Download or read book Computers and Games written by Tony Marsland and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-06-29 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed postproceedings of the Second International Conference on Computers and Games, CG 2001, held in Hamamatsu, Japan in October 2000. The 23 revised full papers presented together with two invited contributions and five reviews were carefully refereed and selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement. The papers are organized in topical sections on search and strategies, learning and pattern acquisition, theory and complexity issues, and further experiments on game; the reviews presented are on computer language games, computer Go, intelligent agents for computer games, RoboCup, and computer Shogi.
Download or read book Computers written by Don Nardo and published by Greenhaven Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 1990 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the history and development of the computer and discusses how it works and how it is used in various human activities.
Download or read book Fundamentals of Computers written by and published by Pearson Education India. This book was released on 2011 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This meticulously organized book dwells on fundamentals that one must learn in order to pursue any venture in the computer field. This book has 13 chapters, each chapter covering basic as well as advanced concepts. Designed for undergraduate students of commerce and management as per the syllabus of different Indian universities, Fundamentals of Computers may also be used as a textual resource in training programmes offered by computer institutes and as a self-study guide by professionals who want to improve their proficiency with computers.
Download or read book The Human Person written by Steven J. Jensen and published by Catholic University of America Press. This book was released on 2018-10-31 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Human Person presents a brief introduction to the human mind, the soul, immortality, and free will. While delving into the thought of Thomas Aquinas, it addresses contemporary topics, such as skepticism, mechanism, animal language research, and determinism. Steven J. Jensen probes the primal questions of human nature. Are human beings free or determined? Is the capacity to reason distinctive to human beings or do animals also have some share of reason? Have animals really been taught to use language?
Download or read book Introduction to Computer Science written by ITL Education Solutions Limited and published by Pearson Education India. This book was released on 2011 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses most ideas behind a computer in a simple and straightforward manner. The book is also useful to computer enthusiasts who wish to gain fundamental knowledge of computers.
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Download or read book How Computers Work written by Ron White and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2015 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a trip through the neural pathways and vital organs of your personal computer with the newest edition of this long-standing bestseller. Glorious full color illustrations make even the most complex subjects easy to understand. Follow PC/Computing senior editor and computer expert Ron White as he shows you the cutting edge technologies, including the Internet, multimedia sound and video, Pentium processors, local bus architecture, Plug and Play, CD-ROM, digital cameras, color printing, and more in new chapters on the hottest, and coolest, PC components.
Download or read book CCENT CCNA ICND1 640 822 Official Cert Guide written by Wendell Odom and published by Cisco Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 1009 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This preparation guide offers complete coverage of the CCNA 640-802 exam, including all INTRO and ICND topics.
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Download or read book Information Technologies and Social Orders written by Carl J. Couch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of human society, as Carl Couch recounts it in his speculative final book, is a history of successive, sometimes overlapping information technologies used to process the varied symbolic representations that inform particular social contexts. Couch departs from earlier "media" theorists who ignored these contexts in order to concentrate on the technologies themselves. Here, instead, he adopts a consistent theory of interpersonal and intergroup relations to depict the essential interface between the technologies and the social contexts. He emphasizes the dynamic and formative capacities of such technologies, and places them within the major institutional relations of societies of any size. Social orders are viewed in these pages as inherently and reflexively shaped by the information technologies that participants in the institutions use to carry out their work. The manuscript was nearly complete in draft at the time of Couch's death. He has left a bold, synthetic statement, reclaiming the common ground of sociology and communication studies and articulating the indispensability of each for the other. With admirable scope, across historical epochs and cultures, he shows in detail the transformative power of information technologies. While the author hopes that a humane vision comes with each technological advance, he nonetheless describes the numerous instances of mass brutality and oppression that have resulted from the oligarchic control of those technologies. Couch's theory and substantive analysis speak directly to the interests of historians, sociologists, and communication scholars.
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