The computer continuum
By: Kurt F. Lauckner, Zenia C. Bahorski
Contributors: Bahorski, Zenia C.
Edition: 5th ed.
Publisher: Pearson Custom Publishing
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Boston, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 438
ISBN-13: 9780536956019; 9780558345167
Subjects: Computers; Computer science
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preliminaries: where we're going; title: Computers: a first look; title: Metamorphosis of information; title: Computer hardware components: CPU, memory, and I/O; title: Computer languages, algorithms, and program development; title: Hardware and software: putting it together; title: Operating systems: the genie in the computer; title: Network concepts and communications; title: The Internet and the Web: worldwide transformation; title: Personal security and privacy; title: Multimedia; title: Databases: controlling the information deluge; title: Simulation: modeling the physical world; title: Artificial intelligence and modeling the human state.