LEADER 03567nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910461093603321 005 20210712193750.0 010 $a0-19-191842-3 010 $a1-280-59464-0 010 $a9786613624475 010 $a0-19-163367-4 035 $a(CKB)2670000000170589 035 $a(EBL)886510 035 $a(OCoLC)784886667 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000655438 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12284260 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000655438 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10596443 035 $a(PQKB)10733202 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC886510 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0002341168 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL886510 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10546692 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL362447 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000170589 100 $a20110919d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDigitized$b[electronic resource] $ethe science of computers and how it shapes our world /$fPeter J. Bentley 205 $aFirst edition. 210 $aOxford $cOxford University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (307 p.) 225 1 $aOxford scholarship online 300 $aThis edition previously issued in print: 2012. 311 $a0-19-969379-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; 000 Introduction; Computers uncovered; The science of computers; 001 Can You Compute?; Understanding the impossible; Turing's unstoppable machines; Turing' s legacy; Complexity is simple; Does P = NP?; Oracles and other complexities; Theoretical futures; 010 Disposable Computing; Thinking logically; Building brains; Anatomy of a digital brain; The end of the beginning; The Law of Moore; The future is many; Beyond von Neumann; 011 Your Life in Binary Digits; Learning to program computers; Climbing higher; Bases for data; Software crisis 327 $aVirtual futures100 Monkeys with World-Spanning Voices; Diverse connections; Inter-networking; Addressing for success; Spinning webs over networks; Weaving tangled webs; Webs of deceit; Digital lives; 101 My Computer Made Me Cry; The birth of friendly computing; Seeing with new eyes; Photos and chicken wire; Waking dreams; It's not what you do but the way that you do it; My pet computer; Human-computer integration; 110 Building Bionic Brains; Teaching computers how to play; The birth of intelligence; The seasons of AI; Intelligence from feet to head; Adaptation by natural selection 327 $aLearning to learn, predicting the predictorsComplex futures; 111 A Computer Changed My Life; Computer creativity; Computational biology; Computer medicine; Computer detectives; Endnotes; Bibliographic Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Z 330 8 $aPeter J. Bentley tells the story of computer science, explaining how and why computers were invented, how they work, looking at real-world examples of computers in use, and considering what will happen in the future. 410 0$aOxford scholarship online. 606 $aComputer science 606 $aComputer science$vPopular works 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aComputer science. 615 0$aComputer science 676 $a004.015113 700 $aBentley$b Peter J.$f1972-$0974534 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910461093603321 996 $aDigitized$92218860 997 $aUNINA